Abstract: When receiving a signal to make a request to get permission for the use of a software program to be executed from a computer (102), a license management apparatus (103) gives permission for the use of the software program when the current number of licensed copies of the software program concurrently being used is less than a licensed maximum. After that, the license management apparatus (103) inquires about the status of use of the software program of the computer (102) and updates the current number of licensed copies of the software program concurrently being used according to a response to the inquiry from the computer (102).

Abstract: An image zoomed-in area, in which an image planned to be zoomed in is displayed, is specified, shape data of a zoomed-in image area is calculated according to shape data of the image zoomed-in area, an arranging position of the zoomed-in image area in an image screen is determined, a remained area, which is obtained by removing the zoomed-in image area from the whole area of the image screen, is recognized, the image of the image zoomed-in area is zoomed in to display the zoomed-in image in the zoomed-in image area, and no image is displayed in the remained area. Therefore, the displaying processing for images of the remained area, for which no user carefully pay attention, can be omitted, and the image display of the zoomed-in image can be performed at high speed when the image zooming-in processing is performed to obtain the zoomed-in image.