Patent ID: 8900124

Claim:
An image display device for displaying in vivo images picked up inside a subject in a time series, comprising: an image detector for detecting a lesion image contained in vivo images picked up over the time series; a fundamental display unit for displaying an elongated display area having a scale assigned along a longitudinal direction thereof and an indicator which moves along the scale to indicate a position in the scale which corresponds to a current one of the all in vivo images which is currently displayed in a main display area; a lesion display unit, responsive to a detection of the lesion image by the image detector, for making pixels located at a position in the elongated display area which position corresponds to the lesion image to emit light in a predetermined pixel-display mode; and a display controlling unit for controlling a display mode of the indicator based on information on a lesion that is possible to be contained in the current in vivo image; wherein the fundamental display unit is adapted to respond to a determination that a total number of all in vivo images is larger than a pixel number L of pixels along a long side of the elongated display area, and to map L continuous image groups into which all in vivo images are divided by the pixel number onto L positions of the scale and display the indicator at a position corresponding to a continuous image group in which the current in vivo image is included, and wherein the lesion display unit includes: lesion mark display unit for making a pixel column at each position in the elongated display area to emit light quantitatively in response to a number of lesion images included in the continuous image group corresponding to the position.