Display device and image display method
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorOsamu Nonaka
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Abstract
An image display device of the present invention comprises a first determination section for monitoring information respectively appended to a plurality of images, and detecting information that has been appended to the most images among the plurality of images as first information, a second determination section for detecting information other than the first information, among the information that has been respectively appended to the plurality of images, as auxiliary information, and a third determination section for detecting an image to which the first information has been appended, and which is an image having the auxiliary information, as a priority image.
Claims14
An image display device for selecting and displaying priority images from a plurality of images, comprising:
- a first determination section for monitoring information that identifies a subject respectively appended to the plurality of images, and detecting subject identification information that has been appended to the most images among the plurality of images as first information;
- a second determination section for counting a number of items of subject identification information other than the first information, among the subject identification information at the time of shooting that has been respectively appended to the plurality of images, and detecting whether or not a number of the items of subject identification information other than the first information, is more than that of the other images, as auxiliary information;
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- a third determination section for detecting an image to which the first information has been appended, and which is an image having the auxiliary information, as a priority image.
An image display device, comprising:
- a storage section for storing a plurality of images to which subject identification information has been respectively assigned;
- a first determination section for detecting information that has been appended to the most images, among the subject identification information assigned to the plurality of images stored in the storage section, as first information;
- a second determination section for counting a number of items of information other than the first information, among the subject identification information that has been respectively appended to the plurality of images stored in the storage section, and detecting whether or not a number of the items of subject identification information other than the first information, is more than that of the other images, as auxiliary information;
- a third determination section for detecting images having the first information and the auxiliary information as priority images;
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- a display section for displaying the priority images.
An image display method for selecting and displaying priority images from a plurality of images, comprising:
- monitoring subject identification information respectively appended to the plurality of images, and detecting information that has been appended to the most images among the plurality of images as first information;
- counting a number of items of information other than the first information, among the subject identification information that has been respectively appended to the plurality of images, and detecting whether or not a number of the items of subject identification information other than the first information, is more than that of the other images, as auxiliary information;
- detecting an images to which the first information has been appended, and that is an image having the auxiliary information, as a priority image;
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- displaying the determined priority images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.