Patent ID: 8368746

Claim:
A display processor of image information for causing a display unit to display a plurality of image information acquired by capturing images over time at a plurality of positions in a subject body by an imaging device introduced into the subject body, the display processor comprising: an image information acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of the image information; a position information acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of position information, correlated with each of a plurality of the image information and relating to each position in the subject body where the imaging device captured images over time; a storage unit for correlating and storing the image information and the position information; a position information display unit for causing the display unit to display, based on a plurality of the position information stored by the storage unit, the position where the imaging device captured images over time, as a diagram in at least two dimensions which is schematization of a luminal organ and which includes a body outline and a luminal organ outline; a focus position information instruction unit for indicating at least one among a plurality of the position information as focus position information; an image display unit for causing the display device to display image information correlated with the position information indicated as the focus position information among a plurality of the position information displayed as diagrams; an acquisition unit for acquiring image information including a designated characteristic part based on information that is unique to the designated characteristic part; and a characteristic image detection unit for extracting the image information including the designated characteristic part acquired by the acquisition unit among a plurality of the image information, wherein: the focus position information instruction unit designates position information, relating to the image information including the designated characteristic part extracted by the characteristic image detection unit, as the focus position information, and the focus position information instruction unit causes a position indicated by the focus position information to be displayed on the diagram displayed by the display unit.