Patent ID: 8862974

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a number-of-pixel acquisition unit configured to acquire the number of pixels of image data stored in a storage device; an aspect ratio acquisition unit configured to acquire the aspect ratio of the image data; and a display control unit configured to display a list of a plurality of thumbnail images of the image data on a display device, wherein the display control unit generates a thumbnail image of image data having more pixels as a larger thumbnail image than that of image data having less pixels, while keeping the aspect ratio of the image data, and displays a list of thumbnail images of image data in a belt-shaped region distinguishable from a background of an image and different from a region where the thumbnail images are displayed, wherein the generated thumbnail images are displayed while maintaining the aspect ratio of the respective image data such that generated thumbnail images having an aspect ratio exceeding a predetermined ratio of height to the width of the image data are displayed so as to protrude from the belt-shaped region of a predetermined height by extending beyond a boundary of the belt-shaped region.