Patent ID: 7469064
Filing Date: 2008-12-23
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image display apparatus comprising: a display unit operable to display an image; an original image holding unit operable to hold an original image, the original image being specified by a user and including a larger number of pixels than a number of pixels that can be displayed on the display unit; an object judgment unit operable to (i) judge whether or not an object is included in the original image held in the original image holding unit, and (ii) generate object information related to the object in a case where the object judgment unit judges that the object is included in the original image; and a display image generation unit operable to (i) extract, from the original image, at least a part of an object area that includes the object included in the original image, and (ii) generate a display image having a number of pixels corresponding to the number of pixels that can be displayed on the display unit, the display image generation unit performing the extraction and generation based on the original image specified by the user and based on the object information related to the object included in the original image, wherein the object judgment unit includes: wherein the display image generation unit determines the part of the object area to be extracted from the original image, based on the position, size and type of the object, which are added to the object information.