Patent ID: 8451296

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a display unit; a detection unit configured to detect whether the apparatus is in a landscape orientation or in a portrait orientation; and a control unit configured to display a plurality of images in accordance with a detection result of the detection unit, wherein the control unit has a first mode in which the control unit displays a plurality of images in one orientation of a landscape-oriented image and a portrait-oriented image on the display unit in response to an instruction, and thereafter displays a plurality of images in the other orientation on the display unit and a second mode in which the control unit displays the plurality of images in a predetermined order different from a display order of the plurality of images in the first mode, wherein in the first mode, the control unit determines an orientation of an image to be displayed first based on an orientation of the apparatus detected by the detection unit when the control unit receives the instruction, wherein in the first mode, the control unit displays the image without changing the image in orientation, and in the second mode, the control unit displays the portrait-oriented image with change in orientation when the apparatus is in the landscape orientation, and further displays the landscape-oriented image with change in orientation when the apparatus is in the portrait orientation.