Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Miyaki

Hiroki Atsumi

Yoshiaki Shinbori

Yoichi Murakami

An image output device includes an image memory for storing image data in correspondence to each of a plurality of image identification data; an image classification data memory for storing a plurality of image classification data for each image identification data; and a keyboard for inputting to the image output device a desired number of desired image classification data. A central processing unit is provided for retrieving, from the image classification data memory, image identification data indicative of all the respective image classification data input by the keyboard, for further limiting retrieval of the retrieved image identification data to image identification data which is common to a plurality of image classification data input by the keyboard, for extracting from the image memory image data corresponding to the image identification data further retrieved by the central processing unit, and for outputting the extracted image data.

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Sayama, Japan

Hitoshi Miyaki