Appeal No. 1998-2707
Application No. 08/586,081
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a system for producing composite images which
provides a measure of security to vendors and consumers. Representative claim 1 is
reproduced below.
1. A system for producing composite images, comprising:
a) a digital image file containing a personal image and image control data
related to the personal image;
b) a digital image file containing an image template and image template
control data related to the image template;
c) a file containing composite image construction rules and composite
control data related to the image construction rules; and
d) an image production system including,
i) a file containing production rule data including data indicating
whether production is enabled or disabled;
ii) a control module for: receiving a customer order including
customer order control data; retrieving the image control data, the image template
control data, the composite control data and the production rule data; and
generating an ENABLE/DISABLE control signal by comparing the production rule
data with the image control data, the image template control data and the
composite control data to generate the ENABLE/DISABLE control signal; and
iii) a composite image production module responsive to the
ENABLE/DISABLE control signal for employing the personal image, the image
template, and the composite image construction rules to produce the composite
image.
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