Patent ID: 9704281
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of generating selectively animated images, the selectively animated images being at least one of distributable and shareable, the method comprising: (a) opening a client computer program, implemented as a client computer program loaded on a mobile device; (b) capturing or accessing video content; (c) a user using a user interface of the client computer program to: (d) compiling one or more parameters related to the one or more animated regions, and also optionally one or more other parameters generated using one or more editing features or utilities of the client computer program, so as to define a set of instructions for creating selectively animated images within the one or more animated regions, based on the video content, and the client computer program initiating, at the mobile device or via a server linked to the mobile device, the composition of a series of images including user selected animated regions, by rendering one or more animated images based on the one or more base frames and selected animated regions (e) playing the video content, while displaying in the background a transparency showing the currently selected one or more base frames; (f) touching, by the user in a selectively animated image creation mode, selected regions of a touch screen display of the mobile device to initiate the client computer program to display a mask including the one or more base frames, as an overlay to the moving content, thereby permitting the user to touch the touch screen so as to select portions of the mask and thereby selected portions of the one or more base frames for animation; and (g) dynamically displaying a preview of the current selectively animated images based on the portions of the one or more base frames selected for animation, upon the user ceasing touch input to the selected regions of the touch screen display of the mobile device.