Patent ID: 9214032
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06Q,G06T,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of creating and distributing professional quality pictorial souvenirs giving the illusion that guests at a facility were imaged at other locations, comprising: interacting with the guests to initiate transactions and provide guest information to a computer system; supplying chroma key images and background scene video images to a video display surface at a location where guests pose for imaging against the video surface; taking key guest images at the location in synch with chroma key images flashing on the video display surface at times interspersed with frames or fields of the background scene images; computer-processing with said computer system the key guest images to extract guest image content; computer-merging with said computer system the extracted guest image content into the background scene images to form merged images; generating preview versions of the merged images; responding to guest interaction to select some or all of the preview merged images; and assembling customized souvenir portfolios that include merged images related to the selected preview images, charging guests for the souvenirs portfolios, and delivering the souvenir portfolios to the guests or designees thereof.