Chroma-key event photography messaging
First Claim
1. A method for communicating entertainment or marketing information utilizing a composite photo or video wherein a participant accesses a computer network to display the composite photo or video using a handheld device.
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Abstract
The invention comprises an entertaining digital chroma-key video photography event (“photo event”) wherein at least one photo subject is placed in front of a green screen background. The participant is photographed while moving or speaking in response to verbal prompts or from viewing action in a simultaneously shown interactive composite of the participant with the substitute and moving background. The participant may be provided with a still photo produced from the video or photographed simultaneously with the video. The participant may view or retrieve the full video or additional still photos by logging onto an Internet website, intranet or other computer network utilizing a handheld device such as a mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA). The invention also comprises use of multiple substitute images wherein there may be at least a substitute background and a substitute foreground. The image of the participant appears in the resulting composite as variably being in an intermediate position, the foreground or background. The invention also comprises a method of surveying individuals. The individuals responding to survey questions may be participants of the photo event or others, e.g., the parents of adolescent children. The individual are prompted to respond in exchange for or at the time of receipt of the video or photo.
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15 Claims
- 1. A method for communicating entertainment or marketing information utilizing a composite photo or video wherein a participant accesses a computer network to display the composite photo or video using a handheld device.
- 6. A method of communicating marketing information comprising conducting a composite photography event and communicating marketing information with an event photo or video transmitted to a handheld device.
- 9. An interactive composite photo event wherein a participant provides an MMS address to an event photographer and a composite photo or video is transmitted to an MMS equipped handheld device.
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12. A photo event comprising:
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a. photographing a participant and green screen with a digital camera;
b. rendering a composite image of the participant and the substitute image; and
c. communicating the composite image to a handheld device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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