Caricature generating system and method

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2005-08-26

2009-02-03

Sajous, Wesner (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Animation

C345S581000, C345S619000, C345S630000, C345S646000, C382S266000, C382S276000, C382S284000, C382S254000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07486296

ABSTRACT:
A caricature generating system and method. The caricature generating system comprises an edge tracing and stroking unit, a posterizing and texturing unit, an image blending unit, a facial image adjusting unit, a cartoon theme composition unit, a styling parameters database comprising a plurality of styling parameters including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing, a face adjusting parameter database comprising a plurality of face adjusting parameter set, and a cartoon theme database comprising a plurality of cartoon themes, thereby creating a caricature from a facial image. The styling parameters (including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing), created manually or by a software, comprise oil paint, pastel, a wax crayon, marker pen, pen drawing, tempera paint, glue color paint, halftone, watercolor paint, block print, woodcut, color pencil, charcoal and their combinations. The face adjusting parameter set comprise adjustment factors of facial features and facial expression. The cartoon themes provide various themes for the caricature.

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