Patent ID: 7872786

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a display image creation section capable of creating a display image that has a plurality of objects superposed on each other such that first group of the plurality of objects is superposed on a second group of the plurality of objects; an image display section capable of displaying the display image created by the display image creation section at a position within a display; a selection-and-judgment section capable of receiving selection input from an external source, and using the input to determine which one of the plurality of objects in the display image is selected and whether the selected object is in the first group of the plurality of objects which is superimposed on an object of the second group of the plurality of the second group of objects or whether the selected object is in the second group of the plurality of the objects; and an index information arrangement section capable of placing a first or second index image at a position different from the position of the display image on the display, the first or second index image visually indicating which of the plurality of objects is the object determined to be selected by the selection-and-judgment section by placing the first index image at the position different from the position of the display image when the selection-and-judgment section determines that an object of the first group of objects is selected and by placing the second index image at the position different from the position of the display image when the selection-and-judgment section determines that a object of the first group of objects is selected, wherein the image display section displays the first or second index image on the display in addition to the display image.