Individualizing generic communications

1. A method of making individualized communications, comprising:

a) providing one or more images including each of a plurality of individuals;

b) automatically extracting one or more individual appearance attributes for each of the individuals from the one or more images including the individual;

b) providing a communication that is generic to the individuals;

c) using a processor to make an individualized communication for each of the individuals by modifying the generic communication in accordance with the one or more individual appearance attributes associated with the individual; and

d) communicating the individualized communication to a corresponding individual.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication of the individualized communication is communicated only to the individual having the associated individual appearance attributes.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the individualized appearance attributes are gender, complexion, hair color, eye color, facial features, age, clothing, clothing style, location, gait, gestures, voice, symmetry, uniformity, body build, and weight.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the complexion includes racial attributes or ethnic attributes.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the racial or ethnic attributes include skin color or facial features.

6. The method of claim 1 , further including idealizing the individual appearance attributes.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication is an advertisement or a public service communication.

8. The method of claim 1 , further including extracting one or more individual appearance attributes from two or more images of an individual.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the two or more images are of the same individual.

10. The method of claim 1 , further including obtaining the images of each of a plurality of individuals from a network-accessible collection of still or video images belonging to the individuals.

11. The method of claim 1 , further including obtaining the images of each of a plurality of individuals from an image of the individual observing a display and communicating the individualized communication to the corresponding individual with the display.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein obtaining the images includes capturing the images using an image-capture device.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the image-capture device is associated with the display.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the display is a television, a computer monitor, or the display of a personal communication device.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generic communication includes one or more images of one or more persons.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the individual appearance attributes includes clothing, accessories, or environmental objects.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the individual appearance attribute modifies the location or surroundings presented in the generic communication.

18. The method of claim 1 , further including obtaining audio recordings corresponding an image and including the audio recording in the individual appearance attribute.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the corresponding individual is a person having an emotional relationship with the associated individual.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the corresponding individual is a relative or a friend of the associated individual.

21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more images is a multimedia image including a multimodal representation of each of a plurality of individuals.