Automatic vending machine for sticker and caricature printed article

• US 6,484,901 B1
• Filed: 11/30/2000
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hyun O.K. Kim
• Original Assignee: Jae-Sung Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Jae-Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Noland, Kenneth W.
• Application Number:
  US09/674,602
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 221/24, 221/2, 221/3, 221/7, 221/9, 221/15, 345/441, 707/502
• US Class Current: 221/7
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/26 for printing, stamping, franking, typing or teleprinting apparatus ticket printing or the like apparatus G07F17/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00286 with studio circuitry, devices or equipment, e.g. television cameras television studio circuitry, devices or equipment per se H04N5/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00289 in a video photo booth or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/40093 Modification of content of picture, e.g. retouching geometric modifications H04N1/387
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

An automatic vending machine for a sticker combinable caricature printed article is provided. The automatic vending machine includes a memory, a caricature outputting printer, a sticker outputting printer and a controller for controlling the operation of the respective elements. The automatic vending machine provides not only a sticker on which a face of a user is photographed but also a caricature printed article printed on A4 size paper, thereby satisfying user'"'"'s various choices. According to user'"'"'s option, a caricature printed sticker can also be obtained.

Claims

1. An automatic vending machine for a sticker combinable caricature printed article having a housing having a predetermined shape and providing a space required for installing necessary components, a money identifier installed in the housing and allowing a normal user who complies with a prescribed procedure to use the automatic vending machine, a camera connected to the housing, for receiving necessary image data, a monitor for displaying a predetermined selected image for viewing by the user, and inputting means allowing the user to edit the image data and to optionally execute desired operations, the automatic vending machine comprising:

memory means in which in which data of an operating system program and an exclusive program for caricature processing, is stored;

a caricature outputting printer for outputting image data received by the camera and applied to the exclusive program for caricature processing as a caricature printed article;

a sticker outputting printer for outputting the image data received by the camera on sticker paper; and

control means for controlling the operation of the respective elements.

2. The automatic vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the housing further comprises a plurality of illuminators installed around the camera, for processing shades of the caricature.

3. The automatic vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising an external monitor for allowing the image received by the camera and processed to be viewed by passers-by.

4. The automatic vending machine according to claim 2, further comprising an external monitor for allowing the image received by the camera and processed to be viewed by passers-by.