Patent ID: 7839412

Claim:
An image display apparatus for displaying an image on a predetermined display area whose aspect ratio is different from that of said image, comprising: a first resizing unit adapted to obtain a first resized image by resizing the entirety of said image using a larger magnification out of a first magnification and a second magnification, the first magnification being for matching the size of the entirety of said image in a horizontal direction with the size of said display area in the horizontal direction and the second magnification being for matching the size of the entirety of said image in a vertical direction with the size of said display area in the vertical direction, the vertical direction being a direction different from the horizontal direction; a second resizing unit adapted to obtain a second resized image by resizing said image using a magnification smaller than the other magnification of said first magnification and said second magnification; a determination unit adapted to, in accordance with a currently-set display mode for the image display apparatus in displaying the image, automatically determine whether (i) to perform scrolling display wherein a partial area, whose size in the first direction matches the size of the display area in the first direction, of the first resized image is displayed on the display area while scrolling the first resized image only in a second direction in which the size of the entirety of the first resized image in the second direction does not match the size of the display area in the second direction, or (ii) to perform full-screen display wherein the entirety of said second resized image being displayed without said first resized image being displayed; a display control unit adapted to perform said scrolling display or said full-screen display in accordance with the determination by the determination unit; and a recording unit adapted to record information indicating that said image has once undergone the scrolling display in a case that the display control unit performs the scrolling display on said image, wherein based on the information recorded by the recording unit, if an image to be displayed has once undergone the scrolling display, said determination unit determines to perform the full-screen display irrespective of the currently-set display mode.