Patent ID: 8542199

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a display screen having processing result display areas in which an image processing result acquired by performing a predetermined image processing function on a specified image data is displayed; a surface area detection unit for detecting an operator located on the display screen and detecting a surface area corresponding to the operator on the display screen; a contact detection unit for detecting one or more of the processing result display areas in contact with the surface area detected by the surface area detection unit; an image processing unit for performing an image processing function by changing an execution parameter for the image processing function related to the processing result display area detected by the contact detection unit depending on at least one of a size of the surface area in contact with the detected processing result display area and a length of contact duration in which the operator contacts the detected processing result display area, wherein execution examples acquired by performing an image processing function related to the processing result display area have previously been displayed as exemplary images in the processing result display areas; and the image processing unit performs an image processing function related to a processing result display area on the image data that has been moved to a predetermined area by the operator.