Patent ID: 7663643

Claim:
An electronic album display system for displaying a plurality of images included in an electronic album comprising: an image storing unit for classifying each of the plurality of images into a plurality of groups and storing each of the plurality of images; an image selecting unit for selecting an image to be displayed out of the plurality of images; an image display unit for displaying the image selected by said image selecting unit; an operation unit for receiving a display operation for said image display unit controlled by a viewer when one image included in the plurality of images is being displayed by said image display unit, wherein said operation unit receives a display time setting operation for setting a display time during which the one image is displayed by said image display unit; an interest detecting unit for detecting an interest of the viewer in the one image on the basis of the display operation received by said operation unit, wherein said interest detecting unit detects a greater interest for an image of which display time is set longer by the display time setting operation out of the plurality of images; and an interest storing unit for storing the interest detected by said interest detecting unit for each of the plurality of images, wherein said image selecting unit selects an image classified in a group including an image in which the viewer has an interest based on the interest stored in said interest storing unit.