Personal color ordering system and personal color ordering method

• US 20030149504A1
• Filed: 01/07/2003
• Published: 08/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shiseido Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Shiseido Company Limited
• Inventors: Iwaki, Michio, Komiya, Masakatsu, Tokunaga, Yumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,711,610 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/117
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization

Abstract

The present invention relates to a personal color ordering system and a personal color ordering method for custom-making a commodity of a color that a customer designates via a communication network, and is a cosmetic manufacturing system manufacturing a cosmetic according to information transmitted from a terminal via the Internet to a server; by providing a color database relating color data used for manufacturing the cosmetic and color specifying information for specifying the color desired by the customer, retrieving the color data desired by the customer by referring to the color database according to the color specifying information input from the terminal, transmitting this retrieved color data to a commodity manufacturing apparatus, and manufacturing the cosmetic desired by the customer, the commodity of the color desired by the purchaser (the customer) is custom-made easily in a short time.

Claims

1. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by comprising:

a color database relating and storing color data used for manufacturing said commodity and color specifying information for specifying said color desired by said customer;

color retrieving means for retrieving the color data desired by said customer by referring to said color database according to said color specifying information input from said terminal; and

a commodity manufacturing apparatus manufacturing the commodity according to said color data retrieved by said color retrieving means.

2. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

3. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by comprising:

a color database relating and storing color data used for manufacturing said commodity and color specifying information for specifying said color desired by said customer;

color retrieving means for retrieving the color data desired by said customer by referring to said color database according to said color specifying information input from said terminal; and

a commodity manufacturing apparatus manufacturing the commodity according to said color data retrieved by said color retrieving means,

wherein said color specifying information is commodity identification data specifying an existing commodity.

4. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

5. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by comprising:

a color database relating and storing color data used for manufacturing said commodity and color specifying information for specifying said color desired by said customer;

color retrieving means for retrieving the color data desired by said customer by referring to said color database according to said color specifying information input from said terminal; and

a commodity manufacturing apparatus manufacturing the commodity according to said color data retrieved by said color retrieving means,

wherein said color specifying information is skin information data of the customer.

6. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

7. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by comprising:

color inputting means provided in said terminal for directly inputting color information desired by the customer;

a color database in which color data used for manufacturing said commodity is stored;

color retrieving means for retrieving the color data desired by said customer by referring to said color database according to the direct input color information directly input from said color inputting means; and

a commodity manufacturing apparatus manufacturing the commodity according to said color data retrieved by said color retrieving means.

8. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

9. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by comprising:

a color database storing a plurality of color information items selected beforehand on the part of the server;

selected-color displaying means for causing the plurality of said color information items selected on the part of the server to be displayed on said terminal;

counting means for counting popular colors according to selected-color information selected from among the plurality of said color information items displayed on said terminal and input from said terminal by said customer, the plurality of said color information items being selected on the part of the server, so as to store a result of the counting in said color database and to cause the result of the counting to be displayed on said terminal; and

a commodity manufacturing apparatus manufacturing the commodity according to color data input from said terminal.

10. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

11. A personal color ordering method for manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by:

relating color data used for manufacturing said commodity and color specifying information for specifying said color desired by said customer, and storing the color data and the color specifying information in a color database;

retrieving the color data desired by said customer by referring to said color database according to said color specifying information input from said terminal; and

manufacturing the commodity according to the retrieved color data.

12. The personal color ordering method as claimed in claim 11, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

13. A personal color ordering method for manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by:

providing said terminal with color inputting means for directly inputting color information, and storing color data used for manufacturing said commodity in a color database;

retrieving the color data desired by said customer by referring to said color database according to the direct input color information directly input upon directly inputting the desired color information by using said color inputting means; and

manufacturing the commodity according to the retrieved color data.

14. The personal color ordering method as claimed in claim 13, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

15. A personal color ordering method for manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized by:

storing a plurality of color information items in a color database, the plurality of the color information items being selected beforehand on the part of the server;

causing the plurality of said color information items selected on the part of the server to be displayed on said terminal;

conducting a questionnaire on said customer according to the plurality of said color information items displayed on said terminal, the plurality of said color information items being selected on the part of the server;

counting popular colors from a result of said questionnaire so as to store a result of the counting in said color database and to cause the result of the counting to be displayed on said terminal; and

manufacturing the commodity according to color data that said customer designates according to said result of said counting and inputs from said terminal.

16. The personal color ordering method as claimed in claim 15, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

17. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer by a commodity manufacturing apparatus according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized in that:

said terminal comprises;

displaying means for displaying a plurality of colors used for manufacturing said commodity;

color inputting means for inputting a candidate color desired by said customer from the plurality of said colors displayed on said displaying means;

simulating means for performing a simulation display by coloring said commodity with said candidate color input by said color inputting means; and

transmitting means for transmitting a designated color designated from said candidate colors by said customer to said commodity manufacturing apparatus.

18. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 17, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.

19. A personal color ordering system manufacturing a commodity of a color desired by a customer by a commodity manufacturing apparatus according to information transmitted from a terminal via a communication network to a server, characterized in that:

said terminal comprises;

displaying means for displaying a plurality of colors used for manufacturing said commodity;

color inputting means for inputting a candidate color desired by said customer from the plurality of said colors displayed on said displaying means;

simulating means for performing a simulation display by coloring said commodity with said candidate color input by said color inputting means;

transmitting means for transmitting a designated color designated from said candidate colors by said customer to said commodity manufacturing apparatus; and

receptacle inputting means for inputting a receptacle desired by said customer from a plurality of receptacles housing said commodity displayed on said displaying means,

wherein said transmitting means transmits the receptacle designated by said receptacle inputting means to said commodity manufacturing apparatus, together with said designated color.

20. The personal color ordering system as claimed in claim 19, characterized in that said commodity is a cosmetic.