Patent ID: 7783991

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a recording device which records an image file by sorting the file into a folder; a date and time information obtaining device which obtains date and time information of the image file included in the folder; a calculating device which calculates a time range from an oldest image file to a newest image file in each folder according to the date and time information obtained by the date and time information obtaining device; a display device which has a display screen for displaying the image file; a display control device which displays information indicating the time range calculated by the calculating device, a folder icon corresponding to the folder, and the image file included in the folder at a time on the display screen, the display control device displaying the folder icon in a first region provided on the display screen and displaying the image file included in the folder in a second region, separated from the first region, provided on the display screen; a storage device for storing data of the time range and a file list of the images included in the folder for which the time range is calculated; and a processor for comparing a current file list with the stored file list, wherein the display control device has a mode for displaying an icon of the folder, the icon comprising a representative image included in the folder and the information indicating the date and time range of the folder, wherein the representative image is extracted at a predetermined interval of the number of images included in the folder, if the both file lists are identical, displaying the time range in a hour/minute format using the stored data, while if the both file lists are different from each other, obtaining date and time information concerning the images only for a different file and recalculating the time range using at least one of the stored file list and time range.