Patent ID: 8446427

Claim:
An information display apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives an image having a first line of text and a second line of text, the second line of text following the first line of text; an image acquisition unit that generates a deformation image, the deformation image comprising a first copy of the entire image and a second copy of the entire image that is disposed adjacent to the first copy of the image in a horizontal direction and displaced from the first copy of the image by a distance between the first line of text and the second line of text in a vertical direction, the first copy and the second copy abutting each other along vertical edges, and acquires from the deformation image a line image in which an end of the first line of text which corresponds to that portion in the first copy and a start of the second line of text which corresponds to that portion in the second copy are concatenated into a single line of text; and a display unit that displays the single line of text within a display range of a screen.