Patent ID: 8922669

Claim:
An image processing apparatus including a storage unit and a recording medium, the image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of: an image stored in the storage unit, and an image recorded on the recording medium; an extraction unit configured to perform scene recognition with respect to the at least one image and to extract a factor regarding the at least one image acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the factor does not satisfy a predetermined condition; a display unit configured to display at least one of: (i) information on an image-capture state of the at least one image based on the factor extracted by the extraction unit, and (ii) setting value information on a capturing condition under which the factor satisfies the predetermined condition; and a decision unit configured to: (1) calculate a degree of separation of each of the extracted factors from the predetermined condition in response to the extraction unit extracting a plurality of factors that do not satisfy the predetermined condition; and (2) decide a priority of each factor based on the degree of separation. wherein the display unit is configured to control a display status in which at least one of the information on an image-capture state and the setting value information on a capturing condition are displayed based on the priority of each factor decided by the decision unit.