Visual comparisons using personal objects

• US 10,133,954 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2017
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kim, Minkyong, Li, Min, Pickover, Clifford A., Salapura, Valentina
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Sheela C
• Application Number:
  US15/587,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20170236026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 382100, 382164, 382190, 705 261, 705 272
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5854 using shape and object relationship
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0629 for generating comparisons
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/10 Geometric effects
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/60 Analysis of geometric attributes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/62 of area, perimeter, diameter or volume
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for visualizing a product using standard and personal objects. An image can be retrieved from the shopping history or shopping cart of a user, and the dimensions of the image can be automatically adjusted to make an accurate relative size comparison to a product for purchase.

Claims

1. A computer system for visual image comparison comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive a request for a visual comparison to a first image of an item displayed in a Web-based shopping portal of a requester;

responsive to receiving the request for the visual comparison to the first image, program instructions to retrieve automatically a second image of a previously featured item, wherein the second image;

is determined to be contextually related to the first image based on a set of information from a website which the requester has uploaded content and purchased a product,

comprises one or more images associated with an object previously purchased by the requester from a Web-based shopping history of the requester, and

comprises a comparable size to the first image and a similar usage scenario to the first image;

program instructions to retrieve a third image, wherein the third image comprises standard reference objects representative of a set of possessions of the requester, wherein the standard reference objects are images offered at the Web-based shopping portal of the requester;

program instructions to generate a set of dimensional properties of the second image, based on the first image, wherein;

the set of dimensional properties of the second image comprise;

a color, a size, an orientation, and a position on a display; and

the set of dimensional properties of the second image are based in part on a determination made by an image scaler and an image rotator, which mines metadata from a product manual to determine the set of definitional properties of the second image relative to the first image;

program instructions to generate a predicted change in the set of dimensional properties of the second image at a future period of time; and

program instructions to display the third image, the second image, and the first image for the visual comparison, wherein the generated set of dimensional properties of the second image represent a relative size of the first image to the second image, and the standard reference objects of the third image represent a relative size of the first image to the third image.