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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Kensei Ito, Sagamihara, JP;
Tomomi Kaminaga, Musashino, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Tokorozawa, JP;
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image control apparatus which controls a search screen for searching a related image, comprises: an attribute display section setting a reference image and causing to display a specific condition in each of the attributes of the reference image; a related image display section causing to display the related image which has been searched by an image search section according to the specific attribute condition selected from among the displayed specific conditions; a search screen display section causing to display the search screen including at least the reference image, the specific condition in each of the attributes of the reference image, and the searched related image; and a change screen display section causing to display a change screen for changing the specific attribute condition to be used for the search to a condition except the specific condition in each of the attributes related to the reference image.