Patent ID: 7162197

Claim:
A picture book production system comprising: a memory means for storing a plurality of sentence data associated with a behavior of a main character corresponding to a first plurality of keywords representing said behavior of said main character in a picture book, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data; a selection means for selecting a second plurality of keywords from said first plurality of keywords, the second plurality of keywords being smaller or equal to in number to the first plurality of keywords; a production means for reading out from said memory means said sentence data and said image data by using a sentence data retrieval key comprising said main character and said selected second plurality of keywords, and synthesizing said read-out sentence data and said read-out image data to produce a plurality of picture book constituent parts; a connecting sentence producing means for selecting a connecting sentence to be inserted between said picture book constituent parts, said connecting sentence comprising a blank, and then inserting a word associated with said sentence data retrieval key into said blank to modify said connecting sentence; and a scenario combining means for combining said plurality of picture book constituent parts while inserting said modified connecting sentence between said picture book constituent parts to produce said picture book.