Endoscopic image display apparatus

An endoscopic apparatus comprising:

• an endoscope that takes an image using illumination light including white illumination light and light having a central wavelength of 360 to 470 nm and outputs taken image data;
• an image display apparatus that reads the taken image data output from the endoscope, and that reproduces and displays the taken image, the taken image data including intensity information about a plurality of fundamental color components in the taken image data;
• and
• an intensity changing unit that only reduces intensity of a blue component of the plurality of fundamental color components in the taken image data by using the intensity information,
• wherein the taken image data is arranged to include the intensity information about the plurality of fundamental color components and information about image-taking conditions for the taken image data, and
• wherein the intensity changing unit includes:
• a correction value storage portion which stores a correction value for correcting an intended value of reduction in the intensity of the blue component in accordance with the image-taking conditions;
• and
• an intensity changing portion which (i) acquires, from the correction value storage portion, the correction value corresponding to the information about the image-taking conditions read from the taken image data, (ii) corrects the intended value of reduction in the intensity with the acquired correction value, and (iii) changes the intensity of the blue component.