Patent ID: 6782128
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: A63H,G06T

Abstract:
A method of digitally editing a photographic image of a person having a facial portion including eyes, a nose and a mouth and a non-facial portion for attaching the image to a doll having a face for receiving the image, comprising:providing fabric for the face of the doll having a color which is different from the skin color of the person in the photographic image; electronically importing the photographic image of a person by using a scanner, a digital camera, a compact disk, or an attachment to an e-mail to produce a digital image file; saving the digital image file in computer memory; editing the digital image file by masking the eyes, nose and mouth of the facial portion, sampling the color of the fabric provided for the body of the doll and altering the remainder of the facial portion and the non-facial portion to the sampled color of the fabric by either adding approximately 0.25 opacity of the sample color to the unmasked area or erasing portions of the face with various degrees of opacity allowing the color of the fabric to blend through the facial image; horizontally flipping the image; printing the image onto transferable paper; and transferring the image onto dark fabric opaque material medium and then to the doll having a face for receiving the image.