Patent Document ID: 20020181784
Application ID: 10158686
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image selection support apparatus comprising: an image inputting section which inputs an image; a feature area extracting section which extracts an area having a unique feature in the image input by the image inputting section; a specific area feature collating and determining section which determines whether the area having a feature and extracted by the feature area extracting section is a specific area; an image registration analyzing section comprised of a specific area inclusion area deciding/storing section which decides a rectangular area including the specific area and stores positions of vertices thereof in a memory; a specific area inclusion area reading section which reads the positions of the vertices of the rectangular area including the specific area stored in the memory by the specific area inclusion area deciding/storing section; an enlargement displaying section which enlarges and displays the specific area inclusion area read by the reading section; a thumbnail display section which reduces and displays the image input by the image inputting section; an image displaying section comprised of an original image displaying section enlarging and displaying the image input by the image inputting section; an image selecting section, which allows a user to select a desired image; and a selected image storing section which stores in a memory the image desired by the user and selected by the image selecting section.