Patent ID: 8347220

Claim:
An information display apparatus, comprising: a display portion; an operation input portion for receiving operation input into an image displayed on the display portion; a display control portion for controlling a display screen of the display portion to display an entire screen of the display screen as a sub-screen; an input area selecting portion for selecting an input area where operation input into the image is performed from an image of the sub-screen in accordance with predetermined operation input to the operation input portion, wherein when an input area is selected from the image of the sub-screen, the display control portion controls the display portion to change from displaying the entire screen on the sub-screen to displaying an image of the input area on the sub-screen as an input-purpose sub-screen; and an original image editing mode that permits operation input for performing editing an original image which has been already displayed on the display portion or an original image non-editing mode that does not permit editing the original image is set selectively.