User image integration into audiovisual presentation system and methodology

A method for integrating an image into a predefined audiovisual presentation in a system having a plurality of entertainment areas, the method comprising the steps of:

• generating a user image;
• storing the user image on a storage medium, the storage medium being transportable and usable in each of the plurality of entertainment areas;
• coupling the storage medium to an interface in at least one of the entertainment areas;
• providing signals for an presentation, from an source;
• and
• analyzing the signals from the audiovisual source and selectively modifying certain ones of the signals to integrate the user image into the audiovisual presentation.

A presentation system comprising:

• a transportable apparatus comprising means for providing first image data;
• at least one image integration subsystem comprising:
• means for reading the first image data from said transportable apparatus;
• predefined image data means for providing a supply of predefined image data;
• source means comprised of at least one of an audio source and a visual source for providing presentation signals for a presentation;
• a processor, responsive to the read first image data and the predefined image data to create modified image data, said processor further comprising means responsive to said modified image data and said presentation signals, to create modified presentation signals representative of a modified presentation;
• and
• exhibition means, responsive to the modified presentation signals for exhibiting said modified presentation.