Patent ID: 6484901
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: G07F,H04N

Abstract:
An automatic vending machine for a sticker combinable caricature printed article having a housing having a predetermined shape and providing a space required for installing necessary components, a money identifier installed in the housing and allowing a normal user who complies with a prescribed procedure to use the automatic vending machine, a camera connected to the housing, for receiving necessary image data, a monitor for displaying a predetermined selected image for viewing by the user, and inputting means allowing the user to edit the image data and to optionally execute desired operations, the automatic vending machine comprising:memory means in which in which data of an operating system program and an exclusive program for caricature processing, is stored: a caricature outputting printer for outputting image data received by the camera and applied to the exclusive program for caricature processing as a caricature printed article; a sticker outputting printer for outputting the image data received by the camera on sticker paper; and control means for controlling the operation of the respective elements.