Virtual beauty consultant
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1. An electronic beauty analysis method, comprising:
- maintaining beauty information in a data structure;
receiving personal information about a subject;
selecting for presentation to the subject at least some beauty information maintained in the data structure based on the received information;
presenting to the subject an image of a virtual beauty consultant; and
causing the image of the consultant to present to the subject the beauty information selected for presentation.
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and apparatus consistent with the present invention may be used to provide subjects with electronic beauty analyses. Beauty information may be maintained in a data structure. A subject may initiate an analysis through an interface coupled to the data structure. A virtual consultant may visually and/or audibly present queries to the subject via the interface. Responses to the queries may be retrieved, and information reflective of the responses may be incorporated into subsequent queries. The present invention may involve providing beauty guidance to the subject, via the virtual consultant, based on the responses to queries.
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43 Claims
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1. An electronic beauty analysis method, comprising:
maintaining beauty information in a data structure;
receiving personal information about a subject;
selecting for presentation to the subject at least some beauty information maintained in the data structure based on the received information;
presenting to the subject an image of a virtual beauty consultant; and
causing the image of the consultant to present to the subject the beauty information selected for presentation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An electronic beauty guidance method, comprising:
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storing a series of beauty related queries in a data structure;
establishing an interface with a subject for enabling the subject to participate in an interactive beauty analysis;
presenting to the subject a human image via a display device accessed by the subject; and
causing the human image to appear as audibly presenting to the subject at least one of the queries from the data structure, to thereby conduct the interactive beauty analysis with the subject. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. An electronic beauty consulting system, the system comprising:
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a data structure for storing a series of beauty queries;
a user terminal for enabling a subject to seek beauty advice, the terminal being linked to the data structure; and
a module configured to cause a human image to appear to the subject through the terminal in a manner projecting an appearance that the human image asks at least one query from the data structure to the subject. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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