Patent ID: 8514245

Claim:
An image selection device for selecting an image from a plurality of non-selected images having attribute information, the image selection device comprising: a selection unit configured to select an image from the plurality of non-selected images; an evaluation value storage unit configured to store an evaluation value for each value of attribute information of the image selected by the selection unit; a determination unit configured to, when the image is selected by the selection means, determine a presentation priority of the non-selected images based on the value of the attribute information of the non-selected images not selected by the selection unit so that the evaluation values are evenly considered; and a display unit configured to display the non-selected images on a display screen based on the presentation priority determined by the determination unit, wherein when the image is selected by the selection unit, the determination unit determines whether there are a plurality of images from the non-selected images with the same evaluation value, if it is determined that no two images from the non-selected images have the same evaluation value, then the presentation priority is assigned based on the image having a lowest evaluation value, if it is determined that there are at least two images from the non-selected images having the same evaluation value, then the images from the non-selected images are formed into groups corresponding to their evaluation value and presentation priority is assigned based on the group with the lowest evaluation value.