Patent ID: 7221470

Claim:
An image output device for outputting an image from an inputted moving image signal, which includes frame images, to a printing device, said image outputting device comprising: a frame image holding unit operable to hold frame images from the inputted moving image signal including a first frame image, a second frame image that is n frames earlier in a frame sequence than the first frame image, and a third frame image that is m frames earlier in the frame sequence than the first frame image, and to periodically update the frame images held in the frame image holding unit from the inputted moving image signal; a change unit operable to change n and/or m through trial or learning according to a procedure based on a timing of an input from an operator; a display unit operable to display a frame image specified based on the changed n and/or the changed m, from among the frame images held by the frame image holding unit; a selection unit operable to select one frame image among the frame images held by the frame image holding unit according to an instruction by the operator concerning the frame image displayed on the display unit; an output unit operable to output the selected frame image to the printing device; and a video presentation unit operable to present predetermined video that includes plural frame images whose frame numbers are individually distinguishable, wherein the change unit acquires a trial print instruction from the operator to the video presentation unit and changes n and/or m based on a frame image identified by the trial print instruction.