Image display apparatus and image display method

1. An image display apparatus, comprising: an image data acquiring section for acquiring image data; an image display section having a plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums bundled and integrated for displaying images by using said image data obtained by said image data acquiring section;

an image display mode setting device for setting an image display mode in displaying an image on an image display screen of each of the plurality of image display mediums of said image display section; and

an image display adjusting section for adjusting a display image according to the image display mode set by said image display mode setting device,

wherein said plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums comprise a plurality of electronic papers,

wherein each electronic paper comprises:

a plurality of spheres, each sphere having one half of a first color and a second half of a second color, said first color and said second color being different; and two sheets having a gap there between in which the spheres are provided, wherein when an electric field is applied to the spheres, the spheres are rotated and fixed, and wherein said plurality of electronic papers are sequentially connected in an accordion-folded form, an edge of each electronic paper being connected with an edge of a next electronic paper.

2. An image display apparatus, comprising:

an image data acquiring section for acquiring image data; an image display section having a plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums bundled and integrated for displaying images by using said image data obtained by said image data acquiring section;

an image display mode setting device for setting an image display mode in displaying an image on an image display screen of each of the plurality of image display mediums of said image display section; and

an image display adjusting section for adjusting a display image according to the image display mode set by said image display mode setting device,

wherein said image display mode setting device includes a transparent input element provided on the respective image display screen of at least one image display medium of the plurality of image display mediums, and said image display mode setting device sets said image display mode under employment of the transparent input element,

wherein said plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums comprise a plurality of electronic papers, and

wherein said plurality of electronic papers are sequentially connected in an accordion-folded form, an edge of each electronic paper being connected with an edge of a next electronic paper.

3. An image display method, comprising steps of:

bundling and integrating a plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums for displaying images by using image data;

setting an image display mode indicative of a display mode of an image on each of said image display mediums;

providing a transparent input element on a respective image display screen of at least one image display medium of the plurality of image display mediums; and

using said transparent input element to set said image display mode, wherein the plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums comprise a plurality of electronic papers, sequentially connected so that an edge of each electronic paper is connected with an edge of a next electronic paper, the step of bundling and integrating a plurality of sheet-like image display mediums including accordion-folding the plurality of electronic papers and bundling the accordion-folded electronic papers along one side.