Product displaying/selling system

• US 20020156703A1
• Filed: 02/05/2002
• Published: 10/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASA Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ASA Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Abekawa, Katsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/048,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20020156703A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

A product displaying/selling system is provided which allows a user to purchase a product and to get the image of how the user would feel if the user tried on/wore the product without even leaving home, and which also helps the user minimize the gap between the image of how the user would feel about the product if the user tried on/wore the product and how the user really feels about the product when actually trying on/wearing the product after having purchased the product. In the system connected to a terminal of a client (1) via a network (4), a product requested by the client (1) is synthesized with an image of the client (1) to form a three-dimensional image for output to the terminal of the client (1), and the product can be purchased. The system ranks products for display and sale of the products.

Claims

1. A product displaying/selling system connected to terminals of clients via a network, characterized by comprising:

image input means for inputting information data about the clients;

product registration means for allowing merchants to register products;

product search means for searching a product requested by a client from the products registered by said product registration means;

image preparing/synthesizing means for synthesizing the product searched by said product search means with an image of the client prepared from information data inputted by said image input means into an image;

output means for outputting the image synthesized by said image preparing/synthesizing means;

settlement means for settling an account when the client purchases the product; and

a database for storing the information data, and

wherein

the product requested by the client is synthesized with the image of the client to form a three-dimensional image for output to the terminal of the client, and

the client can purchase the product.

2. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 1, characterized by comprising:

product ranking means for ranking a product which is registered by said product registration means and which is specified.

3. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 1, characterized in that

said product search means is comprised of data input means and tally/search means, for searching the product, and

said tally/search means tallies data inputted by said data input means with information stored in a database to search the product for which the data has tallied with the information.

4. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 1, characterized in that

said image preparing/synthesizing means is comprised of product input means, image input means, synthesizing/converting means, and search means, and

said synthesizing/converting means synthesizes an image searched from client information stored in a database by said image input means or an externally inputted image with a product searched from product information stored in a database by said product input means, for conversion into a predetermined form.

5. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 1, characterized in that said product search means is comprised of a virtual space and tally/search means, said virtual space being formed of image preparing means, image synthesizing means, and products identified by product information stored in a database, and

in said virtual space, a pseudo store in which the products identified by the product information stored in said database are arranged at predetermined locations is prepared by image preparing means, and the image of the client can be synthesized with said virtual space for location in said virtual space, and

in the pseudo store, a product which is located in the pseudo store and selected by the image of the client located in said virtual space is synthesized with the image of the client, to allow the client to try on or wear the product.

6. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 1, characterized in that

said settlement means performs, when the client purchases a product/service, a charging process in which when an amount for settlement is paid before or after a scheduled settlement date as a reference, the amount for settlement varies depending on a difference in time period from the scheduled settlement date.

7. A product displaying/selling system according to claims 1 to 6, characterized by comprising:

three-dimensional image selecting means and product selecting means, and

wherein

a client freely locates a product selected by said product selecting means in a three-dimensional image selected by said three-dimensional image selecting means for output to a terminal of the client as the three-dimensional image, and can purchase the product via said settlement means.

8. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 7, characterized by comprising

product ranking means for ranking a product which is selected by said product selecting means and which is specified.

9. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 2 or 8, characterized in that

said product ranking means causes an external ranking institution to rank products, and is provided with a function for displaying a ranking of a product having tallied with the specified product, on a screen of the terminal of the client.

10. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 2 or 8, characterized in that

said product ranking means is provided with element fields for indicating elements related to product quality, product ranking fields for giving marks to the elements to rank products of respective companies, and a client input field for indicating marks given by the client to the elements to rank the elements, and

is also provided with a function for comparing the marks inputted to the client input field with the marks given to rank the products of the respective companies to display, in terms of marks, best fit rankings for the client on the screen of the terminal of the client.

11. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 2 or any of claims 8 to 10, characterized in that

said product ranking means is provided with a revising field for recommended sale by a merchant.

12. A product displaying/selling system according to any of claims 1 to 11, characterized by comprising

person selecting means, and

wherein

a person selected by said person selecting means is specified, and

the specified person is located to form the three-dimensional image.

13. A product displaying/selling system according to any of claims 7 to 12, characterized by comprising

image input means, and a function for locating an image inputted by said image input means in the three-dimensional image.

14. A product displaying/selling system according to claim 1 or 13, characterized in that

said image input means is provided with rails arranged in a manner surrounding a box upward, downward, leftward, rightward, frontward, and rearward, and with image devices arranged to be movable along the rails in six directions which are upward, downward, leftward, rightward, frontward, and rearward directions, and

said image input means is provided with a function for preparing a three-dimensional image from an image formed using said image devices moving along the six directions, for image input.

15. A product displaying/selling system according to any of claims 1 to 14, characterized by comprising price negotiation means for allowing the client to conduct price negotiations with a merchant when the client purchases a product.

16. A product displaying/selling system according to any of claims 1 to 15, characterized by comprising warning means for limiting connection to a terminal violating forbidden matters.