Patent Document ID: 8055030
Application ID: 12198610
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image selection support apparatus comprising: an image inputting section which inputs a plurality of images; a specific area inclusion area deciding section which decides an area including a specific area in each of the plurality of images input by the image inputting section; an image displaying section which enlarges and displays a plurality of areas, arranged in an array in one screen, that include a specific area in each of the plurality of images determined by the specific area inclusion area deciding section; an area dividing section which divides an image into units having meaning; a feature amount extracting section which extracts a physical feature amount of each of the areas divided by the area dividing section; a similarity determining section which determines similarities of the feature amounts extracted by the feature amount extracting section and feature amounts of other images with respect to the plurality of images; and an image display order deciding and storing section which decides a display order such that the images determined as being similar to each other by the similarity determining section are displayed close to one another, and stores the display order in a memory, wherein the image displaying section further comprises an image display order reading section which reads the display order of the images stored in the memory by the display order determining and storing section, and enlarges and displays a plurality of areas, arranged in an array in one screen, that include the specific area in the display order of the images.