Animation composing vending machine

• US 20070035546A1
• Filed: 06/01/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyun Kim
• Original Assignee: Hyun Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Hyun
• Application Number:
  US11/446,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20070035546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/023 Arrangements for display, data presentation or advertising

Abstract

An animation composing vending machine automatically composes a specific body part photographed from a user with animation contents. This machine includes a casing, a monitor, a camera for capturing a face image of a user, a CD recorder for recording an animation of the face image captured by the camera in a CD, a manipulation panel, a controller for making the user face image captured by the camera into a composed animation according to a predetermined process and then storing the composed animation in a CD, and databases for storing various data. The controller processes a user face image captured by a camera into a face animation according to a predetermined program, automatically composes the processed face animation with a face-removed animation, and then stores and records the composed animation a CD.

Claims

1. An animation composing vending machine, comprising:

a casing;

a monitor mounted to the casing;

a camera mounted to the casing to photograph a user;

a CD (Compact Disk) recorder mounted to the casing to record on a CD a composed animation of a user body part image photographed by the camera;

a manipulation panel mounted to the casing so as to receive the user desired command;

a controller operatively connected to the monitor, the camera, the CD recorder and the manipulation panel, wherein said controller processes the user body part image photographed by the camera into a composed animation and transmits the composed animation to the CD recorder; and

a database unit operatively connected to the controller to store the user body part image photographed by the camera and the composed animation.

2. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the user body part image is a user face image, wherein the database unit stores face animation data classified depending on themes, demo animations output to the monitor and sample animations classified according to themes, wherein the controller instructs the monitor to output the already stored demo animation and a message for guiding payment, instructs the monitor to output a plurality of already stored sample animations so that the user selects a desired sample animation and the number of persons to be photographed, instructs the camera to capture a user face image when a specific sample animation and the number of persons to be photographed are selected through the manipulation panel, renders the captured user face image conforming to a corresponding face animation data of the selected sample animation according to a predetermined program to generate a face animation, composes the generated face animation with a face-removed animation of the corresponding sample animation, and transmits the composed animation to the CD recorder so that the composed animation is stored in the CD.

3. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 2, wherein the face animation data and the face-removed animation are data respectively obtained by data processing of 3D animation.

4. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, wherein a cellular phone transmission module is mounted to the casing so as to transmit the composed animation made by the controller to a cellular phone.

5. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, wherein a cash insert hole is formed in the casing, and wherein the animation composing vending machine further comprises a cash recognition unit for recognizing insertion of cash through the cash insert hole.

6. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising at least one lighting mounted to the casing to irradiate light to the user when the user is photographed by the camera.

7. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cover sheet supplier mounted in the casing to supply a cover sheet to be attached to the CD in which the composed animation is recorded; and

a printer for printing a predetermined data on the cover sheet supplied by the cover sheet supplier.

8. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising a blue screen chair, which comprises a chair positioned in front of the casing, and a blue screen coupled to the chair and provided in a photographing direction of the camera.

9. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 8, wherein the user body part image is a user face image, wherein the camera photographs the user with the blue screen as a background, and wherein the controller removes a blue screen region from the photographed user face image using a chroma-key technique, and removes a region below the neck from the photographed user face image by means of a previously prepared face mask so as to generate a processed user face image.

10. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising a CD supplier mounted to the casing to contain at least one CD, the CD supplier supplying a CD to the user according to a request of the user.

11. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising a CD supplier mounted to the casing to contain at least one CD, the CD supplier automatically supplying a CD to the CD recorder according to a request of the user.

12. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 11, further comprising a CD inspection unit for checking normality of the CD in which the composed animation is recorded by the CD recorder so that only a CD with no defect is provided to the user.

13. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the CD in which the composed animation is recorded by the CD recorder is provided to the user together with a CD case.

14. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising an additional monitor mounted to the casing to display the same image as the monitor.

15. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising at least one speaker mounted to the casing to output a sound corresponding to an animation displayed on the monitor.

16. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the user body part image is a user face image.

17. The animation composing vending machine according to claim 16, wherein the database unit stores face animation data classified depending on themes, demo animations output to the monitor, and sample animations classified according to themes.