FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: image processing apparatus has position detection module indicated through an instruction, configured to receive a user instruction operation on the display screen of the display device, and detecting and outputting the position where the instruction operation was performed; a storage module configured to store a plurality of image data elements, each of which contains information corresponding to a search key; a search key display control module configured to provide selective display of at least one search key on the display screen of the display device; a search module configured to display a search key, if the search key displayed on the display screen will be indicated through the instruction of the search key display control module, through the position detection module indicated through an instruction for searching in the image data storage module, corresponding to the search key in order to select image data; and a display control module which enables to jointly display images corresponding to image data in a defined part of the display screen.
EFFECT: broader functionalities of image information search owing to associative links with respect to the given search key.
17 cl, 43 dwg
