Patent ID: 6897894

Claim:
An image display device comprising: loading means for loading, in a device body, a plurality of recording media with different recording capacities for storing image data of multiple photographed objects, instruction means for instructing image data recorded on a selected recording medium to be searched for, search means for searching for image data recorded on said selected recording medium under instructions from said instruction means, clock means for measuring a time during which said instruction means instructs said search means continuously to search for image data recorded on said recording medium, and search control means that include means for checking a recording capacity of the selected recording medium of the loaded recording media to adjust the search range by the search means based on control parameters including the time obtained in said clock means and the recording capacity of said selected recording medium when said instruction means instructs said search means continuously to search for image data recorded on said recording medium and when the checked recording capacity is determined to be larger than a predetermined value.