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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2007
Katsumi Hirakawa, Sagamihara, JP;
Katsumi Hirakawa, Sagamihara, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To reduce a display time of an image for which an observation is less required, and to effectively perform an observation of a series of images, the image display apparatus () includes an image processing controller () that acquires an image from a storage unit (), controls various image processes for the acquired image, and stores an image of a processing result in the storage unit (), an image classification unit () that calculates a correlation value between temporally continuous images and classifies each of the images into an image group based on the calculated correlation value, an image-of-interest detecting unit () that detects a feature-image area including a predetermined feature from each of the images, and detects the feature image including the detected feature-image area as an image-of-interest, a representative-image extractor () that extracts the image-of-interest and a first image in each of the image groups as a representative image and sets a display rate for each of the extracted representative images, and an image display controller () that performs a control of sequentially displaying the series of representative images based on the set display rates.