Patent ID: 6999113

Claim:
A portable, handheld printer comprising: printing means for printing an image on a recording medium; driving means for driving the printing means based on digital image data; image processing means for extracting image data pieces representative of a human subject from image data of an image frame, and processing the image data pieces of the human subject such that the human subject is printed on the recording medium in a designated size at a designated position, the image processing device replacing image data pieces other than those of the human subject with blanking data to delete any other subject contained in the image frame, wherein the driving means drives the printing means in accordance with the image data processed by the image processing means, to print the human subject onto the recording medium in the designated size at the designated position with a blanked background; means for portably housing said printing means, said driving means and said image processing means; a mode selection device for selecting a normal mode for driving the printing means on the basis of the image data of the image frame to print a picture frame corresponding to the image frame, or a second mode for making an identification photograph for identifying a person by driving the printing means on the basis of the image data processed by the image processing means to print a picture frame containing the human subject with the blanked background; and a selection device for selecting a type of the identification photograph to make from among predetermined options, wherein the size and position of the human subject and a picture frame size are automatically designated by the selected type of identification photograph, and the size and position of the human subject and the picture frame size are stored in an internal memory.