Patent ID: 6970177

Claim:
An image processing system formed of a face image data providing apparatus, and an image composing apparatus provided separately from the face image providing apparatus and having no face image providing function, wherein said face image data providing apparatus comprises: a face image data fetching mechanism for fetching face image data; a feature data fetching mechanism for fetching feature data associated with a face image, in correspondence to said face image data, said feature data fetching mechanism including a feature data inputting mechanism for inputting feature data associated with the face image data; and a data transmitting mechanism for transmitting said face image data and said feature data to said image composing apparatus, and said image composing apparatus includes: a data receiving/storing mechanism for receiving and storing the data transmitted by said data transmitting mechanism; a character polygon data storing mechanism for storing polygon data for producing at least one provisional three-dimensional character image, said provisional three-dimensional character image including a body and a face; and an image composition processing mechanism for producing character polygon data based on said feature data and the polygon data stored in said character polygon data storing mechanism so as to compose, for display on a first display operably connectable to the image processing system, a character polygon image having a body changed by said feature data and an applied face texture of said face image data.