IMAGE RETRIEVING DEVICE, GENERATING METHOD FOR KEY TEXT FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL, PROGRAM FOR FUNCTIONING COMPUTER AS DEVICE THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORD MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING METHOD WITH COMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily select a desired image by retrieving a relevant key text based on a retrieval word inputted through an input means, inputting the retrieved result to a display means and displaying it on a screen. SOLUTION: A retrieval execution part 214 inputs the retrieval word from a retrieval request/result output part 213 provided at an input device 211 composed of a keyboard or the like and retrieves the relevant key text from a text DB 103. As a result of retrieval, the image related to the key text is possessed from an image DB 102 and outputted to the retrieval request/result output part 213. That retrieval request/result output part 213 inputs the image related to the key text provided by the retrieved result to an output device 212 such as a CRT as a display means and the image related to the inputted key text is displayed. Thus, the desired image can be easily selected.