| 摘要 |
A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being. The resulting avatar and/or associated animated sequence may be created to include recognizable facial or other features of the individual(s)/objects, and may, for example, be suitable for exchange over the Internet, or as part of a game or other activity. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for operating a system for producing an image or video representing an end-user in a contemporaneous context selected based on a mood of the end-user, the system comprising one or more processors for communicatively coupling to a communication network and a display device, the method comprising:
monitoring, by the one or more processors, information items comprising one or both of text and an image received from a plurality of Internet-based information sources comprising servers of one or both of broadcast sources of news and accessible social networks, to determine subject matter of each of two or more topics of discussion on the plurality of information sources; gathering, by the one or more processors, a collection of the information items for the two or more topics of discussion; classifying, by the one or more processors, each of the information items in the gathered collection of information items, to determine one or more characteristics of each of the information items in the collection; presenting to the end-user, by the one or more processors, one or more questions selected by the system using the determined subject matter of the two or more topics of discussion; estimating, by the one or more processors, a mood or an emotion of the end-user, by analyzing one or more responses received by the system from the end-user in response to the one or more questions presented to the end-user by the system; retrieving, by the one or more processors from the gathered collection of information items, one or more images associated with the two or more topics of discussion, according to the estimated mood or emotion of the end-user; and creating, by the one or more processors, one or more combined images comprising an avatar created from one or more images selected by the end-user, and one or more background images selected from the retrieved one or more images according to the one or more characteristics, the two or more topics of discussion, and the estimated mood or emotion of the end-user, for display to the end-user on the display device. |
