Patent ID: 7893949

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a screen on which a plurality of images are one by one displayed and sequentially switched to another at a time interval; an image storing portion which stores data of an actual image and data of a thumbnail image of the actual image such that the data of the actual image and the data of the thumbnail image are associated with each other; a judging portion which judges, when a display of one of the plurality of the images is switched to another, which one of an image based on the data of the actual image stored in the image storing portion and an image based on the data of the thumbnail image stored in the image storing portion is to be displayed on the screen; and a display control portion which selectively operates, based on a result of the judgment by the judging portion, in one of a first mode in which the image based on the data of the actual image is displayed on the screen and a second mode in which the image based on the data of the thumbnail image is displayed on the screen, wherein the image storing portion stores information on the data of the actual image including a processing-time corresponding quantity, which is a quantity corresponding to a time length taken to process the data of the actual image to display the actual image on the screen, and wherein the judging portion performs the judgment based on a comparison of at least a threshold and the processing-time corresponding quantity.