Patent ID: 7787042

Claim:
An image display device for displaying a calendar having areas each corresponding to given time intervals, comprising: a storage unit for storing at least one sensed image and shooting time information corresponding to the at least one sensed image; a calendar display unit for displaying the calendar, the calendar having a plurality of display areas each corresponding to a time interval representing at least one of days in a monthly calendar or months in an annual calendar; a thumbnail display unit for displaying a thumbnail in at least one display area of the plurality of display areas of the calendar, the thumbnail corresponding to the at least one sensed image stored in the storage unit as a representative image and displayed based on the shooting time information corresponding to the at least one sensed image; an indication unit for providing a visible identifier on the displayed calendar for distinguishing the at least one display area of the plurality of display areas from a remaining display area of the plurality of display areas; wherein, upon operation of a change instruction member, an indication control unit controls the indication unit so that the visible identifier only moves to a remaining one of the display areas of the plurality of display areas when the remaining one of the display areas of the plurality of display areas has a thumbnail different from the thumbnail displayed in the at least one display area of said plurality of display areas and when a shooting time information of said different thumbnail has a shooting time temporally closer to the shooting time information of the thumbnail displayed in the at least one display area of the plurality of display areas than any other of a remaining display area of the remaining display area of the plurality of display areas.