Patent ID: 8044945

Claim:
An image display apparatus, comprising: an image analyzing means for detecting a main subject in images and calculating plurality of characteristics representing the detected main subject of said images; and a classifying means for classifying the images whose analysis result of the characteristics regarding the main subject are sufficiently similar to such a degree as to substantially satisfy a predetermined classification criterion, into on similar image group, and generating one or more similar image groups; an evaluation value obtaining means for obtaining an evaluation value representing the desirability of an image using a predetermined evaluation criterion for each said image in said one or more similar image groups, wherein the predetermined evaluation criterion includes at least one of the characteristics representing the main subject which is detected by the image analyzing means; a display means for rearranging and displaying each image in each of said one or more similar image groups, wherein, for each similar image group that includes plural images, the display means displays the plural images in said similar image group in the order of the obtained evaluation value; an image selection means for selecting an image to be deleted and/or saved and/or printed from each of said one or more similar image groups having plural images displayed in the order of evaluation value, wherein the evaluation value is based on a plurality of evaluation criteria; and a means for setting a contribution rate of each of the plurality of evaluation criteria to the evaluation value, and the evaluation value obtaining means is adapted to calculate the evaluation value according to the contribution rate set on each of the plurality of evaluation criteria.