Patent attributes
A reduced-image producing method is performed by an apparatus comprising an image reading section, an image displaying section, and an image processing section. The image reading section reads an original image, which is recorded in an image recording medium of an MO disk and so forth, via a media I/F section. The image displaying section displays the original image on a CRT. The image processing section produces a template image based on image information of the original image. The template image is composed on a reduced image produced by reducing the original image. The template image may be composed on a padding region provided at a peripheral portion of the reduced image. The reduced image produced in this way is displayed or printed as a thumbnail image.
