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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2000
Eric Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Clay Fisher, Belmont, CA (US);
Kurt Jonach, San Jose, CA (US);
Neal Manowitz, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Kengo Masu, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Jay Sato, Sausalito, CA (US);
John Tree, London, GB;
Eric Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Clay Fisher, Belmont, CA (US);
Kurt Jonach, San Jose, CA (US);
Neal Manowitz, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Kengo Masu, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Jay Sato, Sausalito, CA (US);
John Tree, London, GB;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and system for automatically adding effects to still images are described. In one embodiment, a source image and a template are selected. Further, designated areas of the source image are automatically replaced with template image information, the template image information alters the source image to produce special effects. In an alternate embodiment, designated areas of the source image are automatically replaced with template image information, the template image information giving the appearance of animation of the source image. In another alternate embodiment, the selected areas of the source image are replaced with template image information to produce an animation image sequence, the template image information giving the appearance of animation of the source image.