Patent ID: 8659645

Claim:
An image display system including a controlling apparatus configured to control displays of medical images and a display apparatus configured to display at least one medical image in each of a plurality of regions on a single screen under the control of the controlling apparatus, wherein the controlling apparatus comprises: a judging unit configured to, based on information related to medical images to be displayed in the plurality of regions on the display apparatus, judge whether each of the medical images is a medical image for a stereoscopic view or a medical image for a planar view; a switching control unit configured to exercise control so as to switch each of the plurality of regions on the display apparatus into a stereoscopic view mode or a planar view mode, according to a judgment result of the judging unit; a receiving unit configured to receive a setting of an arbitrary region in the medical image for the stereoscopic view or the medical image for the planar view displayed by the display apparatus; and a display control unit configured to cause a medical image for a stereoscopic view or a medical image for a planar view to be displayed in the arbitrary region that was switched to be the region for the stereoscopic view or the region for the planar view by the control of the switching control unit, whereas the display apparatus comprises: a switching unit configured to switch each of the plurality of regions on the display apparatus into the stereoscopic view mode or the planar view mode, according to the control of the switching control unit, wherein the switching control unit exercises control so as to switch the arbitrary region received by the receiving unit to be a region for the stereoscopic view or a region for the planar view, the switching control unit changes a size of the arbitrary region, when exercising control so as to switch the arbitrary region received by the receiving unit to be the region for the planar view, and the display control unit displays the image for the planar view after changing a size thereof, according to the size of the arbitrary region changed by the switching control unit.