Claims
- 1. A method of preparing a customized image presentation incorporating personal digitized images into a preexisting image presentation format; the method comprising:
- providing instructions for posing of a subject in a series of predefined poses corresponding to image objects to be incorporated into said preexisting image presentation;
- capturing said subject poses on an image capture medium as a sequence of subject pose images;
- converting said images on the medium to digitized image signals suitable for digital image processing;
- extracting and storing said digitized images of subject poses in an image processing system as sequence of digitized image objects; and
- incorporating said digitized image objects into said preexisting image presentation for subsequent display as a customized image presentation.
- 2. The method of claim 1 wherein said customized image presentation is an animated image presentation and said series of predefined posed images comprises a sequence of images forming the animated image presentation.
- 3. The method of claim 2 wherein portions of a subject pose are separately extracted from a posed image and used to create one or more object images intermediate sequential posed images in the series of predefined posed images to enhance the appearance of animation of the subject in the animated presentation.
Parent Case Info
This is a Division of application Ser. No. 08/394,083, filed Feb. 24, 1995 abandoned.
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