COMBINING USER IMAGES AND COMPUTER-GENERATED ILLUSTRATIONS TO PRODUCE PERSONALIZED ANIMATED DIGITAL AVATARS
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1. A non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage media that contains a computer file that contains a set of animation frames that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate an animated face that has one or more facial features that change during the animation, each change being between a photographed facial feature of a real face and a corresponding drawn facial feature of a drawn face.
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Abstract
Animated frames may illustrate an animated face that has one or more facial features that change during the animation. Each change may be between a photographed facial feature of a real face and a corresponding drawn facial feature of a drawn face. Various related methods are also disclosed.
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- 1. A non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage media that contains a computer file that contains a set of animation frames that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate an animated face that has one or more facial features that change during the animation, each change being between a photographed facial feature of a real face and a corresponding drawn facial feature of a drawn face.
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10. An automated method of displaying a photographed image of a real face centered within a pre-determined border comprising a computer data processing system having a processor:
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receiving image data that includes a photographed image of a real face; detecting the size and location of the real face within the photographed image; superimposing a pre-determined border on the photographed image; adjusting the size and location of the photographed image of the real face relative to the pre-determined border automatically and without user input during the adjusting so as to cause the photographed image of the real face to be centered within and to fill the area within the pre-determined border; and displaying the real face centered within and filling the area within the pre-determined border. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A method of generating a computer file that contains a set of animation frames that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate an animated face, the method comprising a computer data processing system having a processor:
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receiving template data indicative of a set of template animation frames, each having a template face, that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate a template animated face; reading customization data indicative of one or more desired changes to at least one of the template animated frames, including the substitution of a photographed image of a real face for the template animated face in the template animated frame; and generating a computer file that contains a set of animation frames that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate an animated face that has all of the features of the template animated face, except for the changes dictated by the customizing data. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A method of generating a computer file that contains an image of a real face comprising a computer data processing system having a processor:
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receiving data indicative of a photographed image of a real face; changing the size of at least one but not all of the features in the real face automatically and without user input during the changing; and generating a computer file containing the data indicative of a photographed image of a face, but with the changed size of the at least one but not all of the features in the real face. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A method of generating a computer file that contains an image of a real face comprising a computer data processing system having a processor:
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receiving data indicative of a photographed image of a real face; presenting a linked sequence of user interface screens, each user interface screen allowing a user to modify a different feature of the photographed image of the real face; receiving one or more user instructions to modify the image of the real face during the presenting of the user interface screens; and generating a computer file that contains the image of the real face, modified as specified by the user instructions. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method of generating a computer file that contains a set of animation frames that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate an animated avatar, the method comprising a computer data processing system having a processor:
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receiving data indicative of a photographed image of a real face; locating an eye within the photographed image of the real face; identifying a color of the located eye; and generating a computer file that contains a set of animation frames that, when displayed sequentially, illustrate an animated avatar that includes at least portions of the photographed image of the real face, at least one of the animation frames having drawn eyes of the same color as the identified color of the located eye.
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