Patent ID: 6690830
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A computer readable storage medium comprising a facial image program element suitable for use on a computer having a memory, said program element being operative to: a) create a first input for receiving a set of facial morphology element codes, each facial morphology element code being representative of part of an image, an element code including at least one symbol, said symbol being representative of a certain characteristic of the image part associated with the element code, the symbol being capable of acquiring a plurality of possible values, said values being indicative of variations of the certain characteristic; b) create a second input for receiving a plurality of code factors associated to respective symbols of said set of element codes, a given code factor from the plurality of code factors being assigned a value greater than the maximum value of the associated symbol; c) process said set of element codes to derive an image code, said image code being a compressed digital representation of the facial image, said image code being derived at least in part on the basis of said plurality of code factors; d) output the image code.