Patent ID: 8294734

Claim:
An image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising: display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image of the image group is to be displayed comes before a given point in time; and image display instruction accepting means accepting an image display instruction from a user who gives an instruction to display the target image, the display timing being (i) a point in time when the image display instruction accepting means accepts the image display instruction after a predetermined waiting time has elapsed since display of the currently displayed image was started or (ii) a point in time when the image display instruction accepting means accepts the image display instruction a given number of times within a predetermined time period after a predetermined waiting time has elapsed since display of the currently displayed image was started, and the given point in time being a point in time when the target image gets ready to be displayed on the display section.