Appeal No. 1999-2023
Application No. 08/556,119
would look on the customer. Conventional hair style
simulation systems require a user to manually align a hair
image with an image of the customer’s face, which may entail
manually scaling, rotating, and translating the hair image.
The user must then utilize a graphical painting tool to fill
any gaps between the hair image and the facial image and to
delete portions of the hair image that inappropriately overlap
the facial image. This conventional technique of hair style
simulation is both time consuming and difficult for an
unskilled user to perform. Accordingly, the present invention
addresses the deficiencies of the prior art by providing an
improved method and system for graphically simulating hair
styles that automatically fit an image of a hair style to a
facial image. A further understanding of the invention can be
obtained from the following claim.
8. An image processing system for simulating a selected
hair style, said image processing system including a display
apparatus and storage media for storing one or more hair
images, said image processing system comprising:
means for providing a facial image, wherein said facial
image includes a facial region bounded by a facial perimeter;
means for selecting one of said one or more hair images
within said storage media to be simulated in association with
said facial image, wherein said selected hair image includes
an interior perimeter to be positioned adjacent to said facial
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