Patent attributes
A composite image output/delivery apparatus for (10) adding to a picked-up scene image a corresponding animation image and outputting/delivering a resulting composite image without adding a fixed animation image simply to the picked-up scene image. When an object image is extracted from the picked-up scene image received via an image input unit (17), any specified type of character image corresponding to the scene image is selected from an appropriate one of a character 1 “memory (12)e, a character 3 “cat” pose image memory (12f). The selected type of character image replaces the object image in the picked-up scene image or adds to the scene image to thereby provide and display a resulting composite image. That is, by replacing the object image with an animation image similar in pose to the object image or by adding the animation image to the scene image, a very delightful picked-up image with an animation is easily created without adding a fixed animation image simply to an image pickup framerabbit” pose image memory (12d), a character 2 “bear” pose image.
