Patent ID: 6507361
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus for electronically forming on a substrate a combined image of a subject and a background, comprising:a housing having an opening; a camera mounted in the housing and having a field of view directed toward said opening and directable toward a subject outside the housing, the camera producing electronic camera signals representing an image within said field of view, said image comprising a plurality of pixels; an image suppression circuit mounted in the housing and connected to the camera to receive said electronic camera signals, the image suppression circuit comprising software means for comparing adjacent pixels of said image, and producing electronic printer signals representing a resulting image in which areas having adjacent pixels of like color bordering said subject are suppressed; a printer mounted in said housing, the printer receiving said electronic printer signals and printing said resulting image upon said substrate; and a base support having a central region and a vertical, elongate post projecting upwardly from the central region of said base support, the vertical post having an upper end and the portable housing being mounted on the upper end of said vertical post at a location spaced above said base support, and the portable housing being of larger cross-sectional dimensions than said post.