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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2002
Michael Cheiky, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Peter Gately, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Michael Cheiky, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Peter Gately, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Avaworks, Incorporated, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A do-it-yourself photo realistic talking head creation system and method comprising: a template; a video camera having an image output signal of a subject; a computer having a mixer program for mixing the template and image output signal of the subject into a composite image, and an output signal representational of the composite image; a computer adapted to communicate the composite image signal thereto the monitor for display thereto the subject as a composite image; the monitor and the video camera adapted to allow the video camera to collect the image of the subject therethrough and the subject to view the composite image and the subject to align the image of the subject therewith the template; storage means having an input for receiving the output signal of the video camera representational of the collected image of the subject, and storing the image of the subject substantially aligned therewith the template.