PICTURE INPUT DEVICE

PURPOSE:To input a picture with the use of a picture input means having a smaller input surface than the size of an original picture by dividing the picture larger than the input screen of a picture input means into plural pieces, inputting them for plural times, then coupling them so as to be a single picture on a picture storing means. CONSTITUTION:When an original picture 31 is inputted, the original picture 31 is divided into two pictures 32 and 33, and inputted. The picture 32 is that obtained by adding a picture 31-2 by a width W to a picture 31-1, and the picture 33 is that obtained by adding the picture 31-1 by the width W to the picture 31-2, and the pictures 32 and 33 has the smaller sizes than an input screen 34 of a scanner 1. Further the inputted pictures 32 and 33 are coupled to a single picture on the picture storing means. Thus by using the picture input means having the smaller input screen than the size of the original picture, the picture can be inputted.