PICTURE INPUT DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a picture input device which enables a user himself or herself to obtain the pleasure in creation by performing an input operation of a unit picture and clarifies the visual interest to promote user's utilization. SOLUTION: The picture input device is provided with a stamp picture storage part for storing stamp pictures inputted to a photographic picture and a display device for editing which displays the photographic picture to prompt the user to select a stamp picture and accepts an input of the selected stamp picture to the displayed photographic picture. A plurality of unit pictures for making an integrated design picture by combining them are stored as stamp pictures. The display device for editing allows a prescribed unit picture to be individually selected from unit pictures combined to make an integrated design picture and individually accepts the selected unit picture and combines the accepted unit picture with the photographic picture to display the photographic picture with the unit picture as a foreground of a subject. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI