Patent ID: 7317458

Claim:
An image display apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of images in a plurality of comparison areas on at least one display, the image display apparatus comprising: a reduced image display unit that displays, on the at least one display, a plurality of reduced images respectively corresponding to a plurality of original images; an image display unit that selects a plurality of images from the reduced images displayed on the at least one display, and simultaneously displays display images of original images corresponding to the plurality of selected reduced images, in the plurality of comparison areas so that the original images of the selected reduced images are comparable with each other; a color-temperature setting unit that selects whether: a) a color temperature of each of the display images to be displayed in each of the comparison areas is independently set in each of the comparison areas, or b) upon setting a color temperature of the display image in one of the plurality of comparison areas, a color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is interlockingly set with respect to a color temperature of the display image in at least one other of the comparison areas; and a display-image correcting unit that generates the display image whose color temperature is set based on the setting of the color-temperature setting unit, and supplies the generated display image to the at least one display to display the generated display image in one of the comparison areas.