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Photobooth compositing apparatus

  • US 5,117,283 A
  • Filed: 06/25/1990
  • Issued: 05/26/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of combining an image of a subject with an image of an arbitrary background to thereby form a composite image of said subject and said arbitrary background comprising the steps of:

  • (a) generating a first image of a reference backdrop and storing a first plurality of first image data values respectively representative of the contents of said first image at a plurality of locations of an array of image locations within said first image;

    (b) generating a second image of said subject situated in the presence of said reference backdrop and storing a second plurality of second image data values respectively representative of the contents of said second image at said plurality of locations of said array of image locations;

    (c) storing a third plurality of third image data values respectively representative of the contents of a third image containing said arbitrary background at said plurality of locations of said array of image locations;

    (d) for each of plural sets of image locations within said array, processing color contents of the associated data values for each of said first and second images, so as to generate a fourth plurality of first image mask values respectively representative of the contents of a first image mask associated with the image locations of said array containing said subject and a fifth plurality of second image mask values respectively representative of the contents of a second image mask associated with locations of said array other than said subject; and

    (e) combining said fourth and fifth pluralities of respective first and second image mask values with said second plurality of second image data values and said third plurality of third image data values, to thereby obtain a sixth plurality of sixth image data values representative of a composite image of said subject and said arbitrary background.

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