Patent Document ID: 9270841
Application ID: 14135858
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An automated system configured to create customized pictorial souvenirs of customers' visits at a venue, comprising: multiple, high-definition, video cameras having fields of view covering respective areas in the venue each including a multiplicity of locations for customers and each operating in a video mode over selected multi-frame time intervals to output respective sequences of frames of camera output images; a computer system having image storage facilities and associated with the cameras and configured to receive and store the sequences of frames of camera output images; a communication facility configured to receive, from customer devices, customer requests for images of customers and convey the requests to the computer system, and to receive preview images of customers and final images of customers from the computer system and convey the preview and final images to customer devices as directed by the computer system; the computer system being further configured to identify locations of customers and respond to customer requests for images of the respective customers by selecting camera output images from the storage facilities that include pixel groups associated with the requested images of customers, and to identify the pixel groups in the respective camera output images; wherein the identified pixel groups of at least some of the camera output images are subsets of the pixels of the respective images and cover less than the respective fields of view of the images; the computer system being further configured to generate the requested images of customers by applying image processing to the selected camera output images to generate the requested images of customers from the identified pixel groups; the computer system being further configured to generate preview images by degrading requested images, and said communication system being further configured to send the preview images to the customer devices associated with the respective requested images and to receive image purchase information from those customer devices and convey the image purchase information to the computer system; the computer system being further configured to respond to the image purchase information to generate, from respective requested images, and send to customer devices final images that are formatted as pictorial souvenirs of customers' visits and have higher quality, including resolution or apparent smoothness, than the respective preview images; and wherein said computer system is further configured to respond to customer request by cropping and/or zooming processing of at least some of the requested images by carrying out an entirely electronically magnification of only portions of images, including by interpolation of pixel values.