Image display apparatus
First Claim
1. An image display apparatus that sequentially displays a series of input images, the image display apparatus comprising:
- an image classification unit that classifies each of images included in the series of images into at least one image group, based on a correlation level among each of the images;
a feature-image detector that detects a feature-image area including a predetermined feature from each of the images, and detects a feature image that includes the detected feature-image area from the series of images;
an extraction-level setting unit that sets an extraction level of each of representative images to be extracted for each of the image groups, from among the images classified in the image groups;
a representative-image extractor that extracts at least the feature image as the representative image from among each of the images classified in each of the image groups, in response to the extraction level set by the extraction-level setting unit; and
an image display controller that sequentially controls to display at least the representative images.
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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 (1) includes an image processing controller (2a) that acquires an image from a storage unit (5), controls various image processes for the acquired image, and stores an image of a processing result in the storage unit (5), an image classification unit (2b) 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 (2c) 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 (2d) 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 (6a) that performs a control of sequentially displaying the series of representative images based on the set display rates.
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6 Claims
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1. An image display apparatus that sequentially displays a series of input images, the image display apparatus comprising:
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an image classification unit that classifies each of images included in the series of images into at least one image group, based on a correlation level among each of the images;
a feature-image detector that detects a feature-image area including a predetermined feature from each of the images, and detects a feature image that includes the detected feature-image area from the series of images;
an extraction-level setting unit that sets an extraction level of each of representative images to be extracted for each of the image groups, from among the images classified in the image groups;
a representative-image extractor that extracts at least the feature image as the representative image from among each of the images classified in each of the image groups, in response to the extraction level set by the extraction-level setting unit; and
an image display controller that sequentially controls to display at least the representative images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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