Patent ID: 7015950

Claim:
A method for photographing one or more persons, comprising the steps of: a. providing at least one digital camera, computer, and image processing software, said camera being positioned to view said one or more persons and being separate from said one or more persons, b. acquiring an image with said at least one digital camera of said one or more persons, c. processing of said image with the computer, d. determining locations or motions of one or more points on at least one of said one or more persons with the computer from the acquired image, e. determining from said locations or motions with the computer a state of at least one of said one or more persons, f. comparing with the computer said state to a desired state, and g. using the result of said comparison, (i) if the comparison is determined to meet predetermined criteria by the computer, having the computer effect the recording of a photograph to be viewed in due course, or (ii) if the comparison is determined not to meet predetermined criteria by the computer, having the computer generate and provide an instruction to said one or more persons to alter said state of the one or more persons, and then repeating steps b–g.