Device for creating a new object image relating to plural object images

• US 5,638,502 A
• Filed: 12/22/1993
• Issued: 06/10/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Murata, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Jankus, Almis R.
• Application Number:
  US08/172,120
• Time in Patent Office: 1,266 Days
• Field of Search: 395/121, 395/133, 395/135, 395/155-161, 395/162, 395/924, 395/141, 395/152-154, 382/308
• US Class Current: 345/634
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1176 Recognition of faces
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/65 for computing the condition of a game character
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/807 Role playing or strategy games
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation

Abstract

A device for the creating and displaying an object image. A plurality of object images is created on the basis of a combination of part patterns on the respective parts of an object. A different object image related to the respective object images is synthesized from the plurality of created object images and displayed. An object image is created and displayed automatically which has a different shape imagined when the weight, height and intake calory of the created object image is increased/decreased. When a front object image is created, parts patterns for an object image on a different view corresponding to the front object image are designated and combined to create an object image on a different view.

Claims

1. An object image display device comprising:

first image storage means for storing a first image;

second image storage means for storing a second image;

a first display for displaying the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means;

third image creating means for creating a third image on the basis of the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means; and

a second display for displaying the third image created by said third image creating means; and

wherein said third image creating means comprises;

synthesis rate setting means for setting a synthesis rate at which the first and second images are combined; and

image combining means for creating the third image by combining the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means in accordance with the synthesis rate set by said synthesis rate setting means.

2. An object image display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the first and second images stored in said image first and second storage means each includes a plurality of partial images; and

said third image creating means comprises;

part designating means for designating a partial image of the first and second images; and

partial image selecting means for selecting the partial image designated by said part designating means from among a plurality of partial images which constitutes the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means.

3. An object image display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

age designating means for designating an age; and

wherein said second display displays the third image having a size corresponding to the age designated by said age designating means.

4. An object image display device comprising:

first image storage means for storing a first image;

second image storage means for storing a second image;

a first display for displaying the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means;

third image creating means for creating a third image on the basis of the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means; and

a second display for displaying the third image created by said third image creating means; and

wherein;

the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means each comprises a plurality of partial images;

said third image creating means further comprises partial image randomly selecting means for randomly selecting a portion of the plurality of partial images; and

said partial image randomly selecting means comprises;

randomly designating means for designating randomly the plurality of partial images of the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means;

an eternally operable device; and

part image selecting means for selecting the partial image designated by said randomly designating means when said externally operable device is operated.

5. An object image display device according to claim 4, wherein:

the first and second images stored in said image first and second storage means each includes a plurality of partial images; and

said third image creating means comprises;

part designating means for designating a partial image of the first and second images; and

partial image selecting means for selecting the partial image designated by said part designating means from among a plurality of partial images which constitutes the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means.

6. An object image display device according to claim 4, further comprising:

age designating means for designating an age; and

wherein said second display displays the third image having a size corresponding to the age designated by said age designating means.

7. An object image display device comprising:

first image storage means for storing a first image;

second image storage means for storing a second image;

a first display for displaying the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means;

third image creating means for creating a third image on the basis of the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means; and

a second display for displaying the third image created by said third image creating means; and

wherein the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means includes an image of at least part of a human body including at least a face.

8. An object image display device according to claim 7, wherein:

the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means each comprises a plurality of partial images; and

said third image creating means further comprises partial image randomly selecting means for randomly selecting a portion of the plurality of partial images.

9. An object image display device according to claim 7, wherein:

the first and second images stored in said image first and second storage means each includes a plurality of partial images; and

said third image creating means comprises;

part designating means for designating a partial image of the first and second images; and

partial image selecting means for selecting the partial image designated by said part designating means from among a plurality of partial images which constitutes the first and second images stored in said first and second image storage means.

10. An object image display device according to claim 7, further comprising:

age designating means for designating an age; and

wherein said second display displays the third image having a size corresponding to the age designated by said age designating means.

11. An object image display device comprising:

part image storage means of storing a plurality of part images in correspondence to respective parts which constitute each view of an object;

part image selecting means for selecting part images on any view for the respective parts from among the plurality of part images stored in said part image storage means;

first object image storage means for storing a first object image on one view which comprises a combination of part images for the respective parts selected by said part image selecting means;

part image designating means for designating part images for the respective parts of a further view from among the plurality of part images stored in said part image storage means in correspondence to a part image which constitutes the first object image on the one view stored in said first object image storage means;

second object image storage means for storing a second image which comprises a combination of part images for the respective parts of the further view designated by said part image designated means; and

a display for displaying the second object image on the further view stored in said second object image storage means.

12. An object image creating device, in which an object is comprised of predetermined number of parts, each part having a part image and each part image being disposed in a part position that is predetermined for the part, to compose an object image of the object, and wherein the object image of the object is comprised of the predetermined number of part images that are disposed in the predetermined part positions respectively, the object image creating device comprising:

storage means for storing plural part images of a first object, the plural part images of the first object being disposed in predetermined part positions respectively to compose an object image of the first object, and for storing plural part images of a second object, the plural part images of the second object being disposed in respective predetermined part positions to compose an object image of the second object, the predetermined part positions where the part images of the second object are disposed to compose the object image of the second object corresponding respectively to the part positions where the part images of the first object are disposed to compose the object image of the first object;

selecting means for selecting one of a part image of the first object and a part image of the second object, both of which are part images which are stored in said storage means and which are to be disposed in coinciding part positions in the object images of the first and the second objects respectively; and

composing means for disposing the part images selected by said selecting means in the respective predetermined part positions to compose an object image of a third object.

13. An object image creating device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a display for displaying the object image of the third object composed by said composing means.

14. An object image creating device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a first display for displaying the object images of the first and second objects which are comprised of the part images stored in said storage means; and

a second display for displaying the object image of the third object composed by said composing means.

15. An object image creating device according to claim 12, wherein said selecting means comprises:

number setting means for setting number of the part images of the first object to be selected to compose a part of the object image of the third object; and

part selecting means for selecting part images of the first object from among those stored in said storage means, a number of the part images of the first object to be selected by said part selecting means being set by said number setting means, and for selecting from among the part images of the second object stored in said storage means part images of the second object to be disposed in part positions other than the part positions where the selected part images of the first object are to be disposed.

16. An object image creating device according to claim 12, wherein said selecting means comprises:

random selecting means for randomly selecting from among the part images stored in said storage means one of a part image of the first object and a part image of the second object, both of which image parts are disposed in part positions corresponding to each other in the object images of the first and second objects.

17. An object image creating device according to claim 12, wherein said selecting means comprises:

random selecting means for selecting successively and randomly part images to be disposed in the predetermined part positions from among the part images stored in said storage means;

an externally operable device; and

determining means for finally fixing the part images which have been selected by said random selecting means at a time when said externally operable device is operated, as part images to compose an object image of the third object.

18. An object image creating device according to claim 12, wherein the object image of the first object and the object image of the second object comprise a human face image.

19. An object image creating device according to claim 12, wherein said selecting means comprises:

part designating means for designating a part of the object; and

part image selecting means for selecting a part image corresponding to the part designated by said part designating means from among the part images stored in said storage means.

20. An object image creating device according to claim 12, further comprising:

age designating means for designating an age; and

wherein said composing means composes an object image of the third object having a size corresponding to the age designated by said age designating means.