IMAGE PRINT AMUSEMENT APPARATUS INCLUDING COMPOSITE SELF-PORTRAIT PREPARATION AMUSEMENT UNIT TERMINAL AND SERVER

摘要

An image print amusement unit includes a pick-up for collecting a subject image desired bya player, a memory for storing frame image data; a display device for combining the frame image dataand the collected subject image to form a resultant image and for displaying the resultant image ona screen; a home page preparation device for preparing an Internet home page based on the subjectimage collected by the image pick-up and the frame image data stored in the memory, the home pagepreparation device being connectable over at least one of a telephone line and a network line to ahome page image server for opening the prepared home page to the Internet; and a recorder forprinting the displayed image on a seal and for printing out at least a portion of the home pageprepared by the home page preparation device on a seal, each of the seals being capable of beingprovided to the player. The image print amusement unit enables a player to enjoy both seal printamusement and home page amusement, accessing the Internet, and printing out of the home page ona seal. The manager of the amusement unit can monitor management data on the sales and the usestate for each type of amusement. Thus, the image print amusement unit prints out a player-desiredimage on a seal; prepares and registers an Internet home page; prints out the prepared home page ona seal; adds management data on the number of times the amusement unit has been operated, the salevolume, etc., for each type of amusement, to Internet image data; and then transmits such data. Toenable frame image data provided for self-portrait preparation to be replaced efficiently at low costthrough a communication network under remote control and also to enable replacement frame imagedata for each terminal to be timely set in response to the frame image use state in a system havingcomposite self-portrait preparation amusement unit terminals and a server, a terminal accessing a