Patent ID: 8502861
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. An image display apparatus that sequentially displays a series of input images, the image display apparatus comprising: an image classification unit that classifies each of images included in the series of images into at least one image group, based on a correlation level among each of the images; a feature-image detector that detects a feature-image area including a predetermined feature from each of the images, and detects a feature image that includes the detected feature-image area from the series of images; an extraction-level setting unit that sets an extraction level of each of representative images to be extracted for each of the image groups, from among the images classified in the image groups; a representative-image extractor that extracts at least the feature image as the representative image from among each of the images classified in each of the image groups, in response to the extraction level set by the extraction-level setting unit, and that sets a different display rate depending on whether the representative image is the feature image or not; and an image display controller that sequentially controls to display at least the representative images using the different display rate set by the representative-image extractor.