Glasses selling system, lens company terminal, frame company terminal, glasses selling method, and glasses selling program

• US 10,043,207 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2015
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Inoue, Hideya, Fukawa, Yasuteru, Yamagaki, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosen, Nicholas D
• Application Number:
  US14/793,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20150310535A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,127 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/111 for measuring interpupillary distance
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 13/003 Measuring during assembly or fitting of spectacles
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 13/005 Measuring geometric parameters required to locate ophtalmic lenses in spectacles frames apparatus for testing or instruments for examining the eyes per se A61B3/00; machines or devices and accessories for grinding the edges of lenses using spectacles as a template B24B9/144
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/027 considering wearer's parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A selling server stores prescription data of a customer transmitted from an optometrist terminal of an optometrist who performs optometry for a glasses prescription through a communication line in association with customer identification information, transmits image data of a frame candidate group of glasses to a customer terminal, transmits image data of a lens candidate group of the glasses to the customer terminal, receives information relating to a frame and a lens purchased by the customer and determined on the basis of a combined image of a frame image selected by the customer, a lens image selected by the customer, and a face image of the customer, and transmits prescription data of the customer to a lens company terminal of a lens company which processes the lens purchased by the customer.

Claims

1. A glasses selling system comprising:

a selling device;

a first terminal device used by a customer who purchases glasses;

a second terminal device used by an optometrist who performs optometry for a glasses prescription; and

a third terminal device used by a lens company that treats a lens purchased by the customer, wherein

the selling device is connected to the first terminal device, the second terminal device, and the third terminal device through a communication line, and

the selling device;

stores prescription data of the customer transmitted from the second terminal device in association with customer identification information;

transmits image data of a plurality of frame images as a frame candidate group of glasses, to the first terminal device;

transmits image data of a plurality of lens images as a lens candidate group of glasses, to the first terminal device;

generates a combined image of a frame image selected via the first terminal device by the customer from the plurality of frame images, a lens image selected via the first terminal device by the customer from the plurality of lens images, and a face image of the customer;

transmits the combined image to the first terminal device;

receives information relating to a frame and a lens purchased by the customer from the first terminal device, the information being determined based on the combined image; and

transmits the information relating to the lens purchased by the customer and the prescription data of the customer, to the third terminal device,

wherein the second terminal device acquires customer identification information of the customer from the selling device and transmits the prescription data of the customer in association with the customer identification information to the selling device.

2. The glasses selling system according to claim 1, wherein

the second terminal device is moved to the resident area of the customer and receives input of the prescription data of the customer.

3. The glasses selling system according to claim 2, wherein

the second terminal device is provided in a movable body that visits the resident area of the customer and transmits the prescription data of the customer via wireless communication to the selling device.

4. The glasses selling system according to claim 1, wherein

the first terminal device is provided with an imaging unit that captures the face image of the customer and transmits the face image of the customer captured by the imaging unit while communicating with the selling device, to the selling device.

5. The glasses selling system according to claim 4, wherein

the selling device generates the combined image so as to follow the motion of the face image of the customer captured by the imaging unit.

6. The glasses selling system according to claim 1, wherein

the selling device records the generated combined image and reproduces the recorded combined image in response to a request from the first terminal device.

7. The glasses selling system according to claim 1, wherein

the prescription data includes information of the inter-pupil distance of the customer, and

the selling device calculates face shape information necessary for manufacturing the glasses from the face image based on the inter-pupil distance.

8. The glasses selling system according to claim 1, wherein

the selling device stores personal data including information representing the designated date of the customer and transmits, on the designated date or before the designated date, predetermined advertisement information to the first terminal device of the customer which corresponds to the designated date.

9. A third terminal device used by a lens company, the third terminal device being connected via a communication line to a selling device used in a glasses selling system for selling glasses to a customer, wherein

the selling device:

stores prescription data of the customer transmitted from a second terminal device in association with customer identification information;

transmits image data of a plurality of frame images as a frame candidate group of glasses, to a first terminal device;

transmits image data of a plurality of lens images as a lens candidate group of glasses, to the first terminal device;

generates a combined image of a frame image selected via the first terminal device by the customer from the plurality of frame images, a lens image selected via the first terminal device by the customer from the plurality of lens images, and a face image of the customer;

transmits the combined image to the first terminal device;

receives information relating to a frame and a lens purchased by the customer from the first terminal device, the information being determined based on the combined image; and

transmits the information relating to the lens purchased by the customer and the prescription data of the customer, to the third terminal device, and

the third device receives the information relating to the lens purchased by the customer and the prescription data of the customer transmitted from the selling device,

wherein the selling device sends customer identification information of the customer to the second terminal, and the selling device receives, from the second terminal device, the prescription data of the customer in association with the customer identification information.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer in a selling device to execute:

storing prescription data of a customer transmitted from a second terminal device in association with customer identification information;

transmitting image data of a plurality of frame images as a frame candidate group of glasses, to a first terminal device;

transmitting image data of a plurality of lens images as a lens candidate group of glasses, to the first terminal device;

generating a combined image of a frame image selected via the first terminal device by the customer from the plurality of frame images, a lens image selected via the first terminal device by the customer from the plurality of lens images, and a face image of the customer;

transmitting the combined image to the first terminal device;

receiving information relating to a frame and a lens purchased by the customer from the first terminal device, the information being determined based on the combined image; and

transmitting the information relating to the lens purchased by the customer and the prescription data of the customer, to a third terminal device,

wherein the selling device sends customer identification information of the customer to the second terminal, and the selling device receives, from the second terminal device, the prescription data of the customer in association with the customer identification information.