Patent Document ID: 20070139701
Application ID: 11600019
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus having a scanning unit for scanning an image and a storage unit for storing an image, comprising: a registration unit adapted to register an image scanned by the scanning unit in the storage unit; a first setting unit adapted to set, in an attribute information table, attribute information for managing an image registered by said registration unit; a second setting unit adapted to set, in a related information table together with the attribute information, relationship between the image registered by said registration unit and a related image in the storage unit; a search unit adapted to search the storage unit for an image specified by attribute information embedded in the image scanned by the scanning unit; a creation unit adapted to acquire an image related to the image found by a search by said search unit from the storage unit by looking up the related information table, and create a relation view of the images; and a display unit adapted to display an operation window including the relation view created by said creation unit.