SOCIAL GAME CONCERNING PHOTOGRAPH MANIPULATION FOR PLAY ACROSS DISTRIBUTED DEVICES

摘要

A computer implemented method defines game pieces for play which can complement a natural human tendency to be attracted by people's faces. The game is based on segmenting an image of a user's face under control of a programmed processor, the user's face being captured by the mobile application or provided to it, and then turned into a plurality of segments. A reconstituted image of a face made up of multiple segments from two or more different users for presentation to each respective user in a user interface. A user can select or be selected for a game, which once started has each user revealing a further part of their image to the other until either the whole image of both are revealed and the game is won and they can further communicate. Alternatively a user loses by having their image segment rejected with no further communication available.

主权项

1. A method for serving collages and collage components to a plurality of computing devices that are in communication with a server over a distributed network of computing devices, comprising:
receiving respective photos from computing devices associated with each of a plurality of users over the distributed network; segmenting each photo using code executing in a processor of the server, the code configuring the processor to implement a segmentation algorithm which defines respective arrays of photo segments in which each photo segment has a position within its respective array; associating in a data store each photo segment and its position with a respective user among the plurality of users; defining a set of collages in which each has the photo segments of at least two of the plurality of users using code executing in the processor; establishing a connection over the distributed network between the server and one or more applications executing on respective ones of at least a portion of the computing devices; and serving to each applications over the computer network a respective collage in the set of collages.