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US 2003/0169286 A1Published application
Apparatus for controlling display of index images
OwnerTakeshi Misawainventor
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Abstract
An index image display area having a plurality of thumbnail image display areas is displayed on a display screen. The greater the distance transversely from a centrally located thumbnail image display area, the smaller the widths of the thumbnail image display areas become. A full image of single frame is displayed in the center thumbnail image display area, and only portions of thumbnail images are displayed in the other thumbnail image display areas. This makes it possible to display a large number of thumbnail images.
Claims5
An apparatus for controlling display of index images, comprising:
- a first display controller for controlling a display device so as to display an image display strip on a display screen, said image display strip including a plurality of mutually adjacent image display areas the sizes of which diminish in accordance with direction along the image display strip as distance from one of the image display areas increases;
- an image data reading device for reading a plurality of frames of image data that have been recorded on a recording medium;
- a second display controller for controlling the display device in such a manner that a plurality of frames of images represented by the plurality of frames of image data, which have been read by said image data reading device, are displayed in corresponding ones of the image display areas of the image display strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.