Patent ID: 8180109

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: an image capture device configured to acquire an image of an area including a monitoring target; a display device configured to display information including an image; and a display control device configured to enlarge a first image area included in the image acquired by the image capture device and display in the display device a first display image which includes (i) the enlarged first image area and (ii) a second image area, which is included in the image acquired by the image capture device and other than the first image area, wherein the display control device is configured to execute a compression process to compress the second image area other than the first image area, and display, in the display device, the compressed second image area, the display control device is configured to display, in a single integrated image, the enlarged first image area and the compressed second image area such that the enlarged first image area is seamlessly connected with the compressed second image area which is in a periphery of the enlarged first image area, the image capture device is configured to acquire the image as a stereographic projection image, and the display control device is configured to display the enlarged first image area and the compressed second image area as the single integrated image by transforming the acquired stereographic projection image into an equal distance projection image.