Image providing apparatus, an image providing method, an image providing program, and computer-readable recording medium for recording the program

摘要

An image providing device includes a page information transmission unit that outputs a first page to be displayed on a client terminal and an image output unit that outputs images contained in the first page to the client terminal and then outputs a second composite image combining images, other than the images contained in the first page, of a plurality of images contained in a second page to the client terminal. This avoids that an image contained in common in the first page and the second page is redundantly output to the client terminal. This thus reduces the number of transfers of images.