Patent ID: 6219024
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: A61B,G06F,G06T

Abstract:
An image display control apparatus for selecting a desired plurality of part images from among a plurality of sorts of similar part images, each of the plurality of sorts of similar part images representing a respective one of the parts which compose a person, and being stored in a part image storage device, the image display control apparatus controlling a display device to display the person's image which is composed of combined selected part images, the apparatus comprising:personal data input means for inputting personal data corresponding to a person's image to be formed;storage means for storing a plurality of personal data input by said personal data input means and a plurality of groups of specifying data in corresponding relationship, each of the plurality of groups of specifying data specifying the respective part images which compose the person's image, without storing the respective part images themselves;determining means for determining whether said storage means has stored personal data coinciding with personal data for retrieval input by said personal data input means after said storage means has stored the plurality of personal data input by said personal data input means and the plurality of groups of specifying data in corresponding relationship;first reading means responsive to said determining means determining that said storage means has stored personal data coinciding with personal data input by said input means, for reading from said storage means the coinciding personal data and corresponding group of specifying data;second reading means for reading from said part image storage device a plurality of part images corresponding to the group of specifying data read by said first reading means; anddisplay control means for combining the plurality of part images read by said second reading means into a person's image and for causing the display device to display together the person's image and the corresponding personal data read by said first reading means.