Apparatus for displaying images of living things to show growing and/or moving of the living things

An image displaying apparatus for successively displaying images of a living thing to show how the living thing is growing up, comprising:

• image-data storing means for storing plural image data of the living thing, the plural image data representing images of the living thing at various levels in a growing process thereof, respectively;
• image-data displaying means for displaying one of the plural image data of the living thing stored in said image data storing means;
• sensing means for successively detecting environment conditions around said image displaying apparatus every predetermined time intervals to output environment data representing the detected environment conditions;
• environment-data storing means for storing environment data output from said sensing means;
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• display control means for reading out from said image data displaying means, based on the environment data stored in the environment-data storing means, image data representing the living thing at a level different from the image data of the living thing displayed on said image-data displaying means, and for displaying the read out image data of the living thing in place of the image data displayed previously thereon, whereby the image data of the living thing which is at various levels in the growing process are successively displayed on the image-data displaying means in accordance with the environment conditions detected by the sensing means.

An image displaying apparatus for displaying image data of a living thing, comprising:

• non-contact switching means operable by a user without a contacting manipulation, for inputting a switching signal;
• input-operation data storing means in which plural input operation data corresponding respectively to switching operations of said non-contact switching means are previously stored;
• image-data storing means for storing plural image data of the living thing corresponding respectively to the plural input operation data stored in said input-operation data storing means, the plural image data of the living thing representing predetermined different states of the living thing respectively;
• judging means for, when the user operates said non-contact switching means, searching through the plural input operation data stored in said input-operation data storing means to find out an input operation data corresponding to the switching operation executed by said non-contact switching means;
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• image-data displaying means for reading out from said image-data storing means the image data of the living thing corresponding to the input operation data found out by said judging means, and for displaying the read out image data of the living thing.