Test-wearing image producing method for personal products

• US 20090273612A1
• Filed: 05/01/2008
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yiling Xie
• Original Assignee: Yiling Xie
• Inventors: Xie, Yiling
• Granted Patent: US 7,982,750 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/630
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 13/003 Measuring during assembly or fitting of spectacles

Abstract

A method for test-wearing image producing method for a personal product includes the steps of: posting a base image layer which contains an image of a wearer; defining a display area and a masking area on the base image layer in responsive to the personal product being physically worn by the wearer; selecting a product image layer containing an image of the personal product to locate on the base image layer; and creating a test-wearing image, wherein a portion of the image of the personal product within the display area is visibly shown on the image of the wearer while a portion of the image of the personal product within the masking area is invisibly hidden, such that the test-wearing image contains a virtual appearance of the wearer physically wearing the personal product.

Claims

1. A test-wearing image producing method for a personal product, comprising the steps of:

(a) posting a base image layer which contains an image of a wearer;

(b) defining a display area on said base image layer and a masking area on said base image layer in responsive to said personal product to be worn by said wearer;

(c) locating a product image layer on said base image layer, wherein said product image layer contains an image of said personal product; and

(d) creating a test-wearing image when said product image layer is overlapped on said base image layer, wherein a portion of said image of said personal product within said display area is visibly shown on said image of said wearer while a portion of said image of said personal product within said masking area is invisibly hidden, such that said test-wearing image contains a virtual appearance of said wearer wearing said personal product.

2. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein said image of said wearer is a facial image of said wearer and said image of said personal product is an image of a spectacle frame, wherein said product image layer is located on said base image layer in an adjustably movable manner, such that said test-wearing image contains said virtual appearance of said wearer wearing said spectacle frame.

3. The method, as recited in claim 2, wherein said display area is set between two facial side peripherals of said facial image while said masking area is set at each of auricle areas of said facial image, such that when said product image layer is overlapped on said base image layer, a corresponding portion of said image of said spectacle frame within said display area is visibly shown between said facial side peripherals of said facial image while another portion of said image of said spectacle frame within said masking area is invisibly hidden to generate said test-wearing image containing said virtual appearance of said wearer wearing said spectacle frame.

4. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein the step (b) comprises a step of (b.1) locating one or more reference marks on said base image layer to define said display area and said masking area in responsive to said reference marks.

5. The method, as recited in claim 3, wherein the step (b) comprises a step of (b.1) locating one or more reference marks on said base image layer to define said display area and said masking area in responsive to said reference marks.

6. The method, as recited in claim 5, wherein two of said reference marks are selectively located at two pupils of said wearer of said image thereof and two masking marks are selectively located at said facial side peripherals of said facial image respectively on said base image layer.

7. The method, as recited in claim 6, wherein the step (b) further comprises a step of (b.2) selectively adjusting said masking marks at said facial side peripherals of said facial image respectively on said base image layer to define said display area between said two masking marks and said masking area out of each of said masking marks.

8. The method, as recited in claim 7, wherein a distance between said two masking marks is set to be larger than a distance between said two reference marks.

9. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein said product image layer contains a preset reserving area at said image of said personal product that said reserving area is visibly shown within both said display area and said masking area.

10. The method, as recited in claim 8, wherein said product image layer contains a preset reserving area at said image of said personal product that said reserving area is visibly shown within both said display area and said masking area.

11. The method, as recited in claim 10, wherein sizes of said display area and said masking area of said base image layer are correspondingly adjusted in responsive to said reserving area that when said reserving area is moved to said masking area from said display area, the size of said masking area is reduced while said display area is enlarged, such that said reserving area of said image of said personal product is always visibly shown on said base image layer.

12. The method, as recited in claim 11, wherein said reserving area of said image of said personal product defines an outer reserving boundary arranged in such a manner that when said reserving area is moved until said reserving boundary meets one of said masking marks, said corresponding masking mark is moved to adjust the size of said display area.

13. The method, as recited in claim 12, wherein said product image layer further contains a fade out effect, a light reflective effect, a shading effect, and a color blending effect on said product image layer, wherein said fade out gradually diminishes said image of said personal product from said display area to said masking area of said base image layer, wherein said light reflective effect provided within said reserving area to generate a light reflection of said personal product, wherein said shading effect provided at said image of said personal product to simulate a shading of said personal product on said image of said wearer, wherein said color blending effect provided at said image of said personal product to blend a color of said image of said personal product with a color of said image of said wearer, such that said fade out effect, said light reflective effect, said shading effect, and said color blending effect enhance said test-wearing image of said virtual appearance of said wearer actually wearing said personal product.

14. The method, as recited in claim 6, before the step (a), further comprising a pre-step of calibrating a frame scale of said spectacle image with respect to said facial image, wherein said calibrating step comprises the steps of:

posting a reference image layer which contains an image of said wearer wearing an own personal product;

locating said two reference marks at said pupils of said wearer of said images on said reference image layer;

determining a reference width between two reference points of said own personal product on said reference image layer by an indication of said two reference points of said own personal product; and

determining an actual width between said two reference points of said own personal product by actually measuring said actual width thereof by said wearer, such that by comparing said reference width of said own personal product on said reference image layer with said actual width of said own personal product, a distance between said pupils of said wearer is determined to match with said frame scale of said spectacle image with respect to said facial image of said wearer on said base image layer.

15. The method, as recited in claim 12, before the step (a), further comprising a pre-step of calibrating a frame scale of said spectacle image with respect to said facial image, wherein said calibrating step comprises the steps of:

posting a reference image layer which contains an image of said wearer wearing an own personal product;

locating said two reference marks at said pupils of said wearer of said images on said reference image layer;

determining a reference width between two reference points of said own personal product on said reference image layer by an indication of said two reference points of said own personal product; and

determining an actual width between said two reference points of said own personal product by actually measuring said actual width thereof by said wearer, such that by comparing said reference width of said own personal product on said reference image layer with said actual width of said own personal product, a distance between said pupils of said wearer is determined to match with said frame scale of said spectacle image with respect to said facial image of said wearer on said base image layer.

16. The method, as recited in claim 14, wherein said own personal product is an own spectacle frame and said two reference points are two outer sides of said own spectacle frame, wherein said image of said wearer on said reference image layer is a frontal facial position of said wearer wearing said own spectacle frame, wherein said masking marks are moved to locate at two outer sides of said own spectacle frame on said reference image layer to define said reference width of said own spectacle frame.

17. The method, as recited in claim 15, wherein said own personal product is an own spectacle frame and said two reference points are two outer sides of said own spectacle frame, wherein said image of said wearer on said reference image layer is a frontal facial position of said wearer wearing said own spectacle frame, wherein said masking marks are moved to locate at two outer sides of said own spectacle frame on said reference image layer to define said reference width of said own spectacle frame.

18. The method, as recited in claim 15, wherein said calibrating step further comprises a step of locating a third reference mark at said base image layer to determine a reference proportion of said facial image with respect to said distance between said pupils of said wearer.

19. The method, as recited in claim 17, wherein said calibrating step further comprises a step of locating a third reference mark at said base image layer to determine a reference proportion of said facial image with respect to said distance between said pupils of said wearer.

20. The method, as recited in claim 18, wherein said third reference mark is located at a tip of a nose of said wearer on said base image layer to define a reference length of said nose of said wearer with respect to said distance of said pupils of said wearer on said base image layer, wherein when said facial position of said wearer is changed to adjust said distance between said reference marks, an angle of said facial position of said wearer on said base image layer is determined.

21. The method, as recited in claim 19, wherein said third reference mark is located at a tip of a nose of said wearer on said base image layer to define a reference length of said nose of said wearer with respect to said distance of said pupils of said wearer on said base image layer, wherein when said facial position of said wearer is changed to adjust said distance between said reference marks, an angle of said facial position of said wearer on said base image layer is determined.

22. The method, as recited in claim 20, wherein said image of said spectacle frame is correspondingly changed its orientation to match with said angle of said facial position of said wear to overlap said product image layer on said base image layer.

23. The method, as recited in claim 21, wherein said image of said spectacle frame is correspondingly changed its orientation to match with said angle of said facial position of said wear to overlap said product image layer on said base image layer.

24. The method, as recited in claim 21, wherein a temple wearable length of said spectacle image on said product image layer is determined in responsive to an actual temple wearable length of said spectacle frame, wherein said temple wearable length of said spectacle image is proportionally determined by said reference length of said nose of said wearer.

25. The method, as recited in claim 23, wherein a temple wearable length of said spectacle image on said product image layer is determined in responsive to an actual temple wearable length of said spectacle frame, wherein said temple wearable length of said spectacle image is proportionally determined by said reference length of said nose of said wearer.

26. A system of producing a test-wearing image for a personal product, comprising:

an optimization center having a product database, which is adapted for a wearer to access, containing a plurality of digital images of personal products for said user to select;

a posting platform, which is communicatively linked to said frame database, for said wearer posting a base image layer and a product image layer on said posting platform, wherein said base image layer contains an image of said wearer and said product image layer contains at least one of said images of said personal products;

a test-wearing generator, which is communicatively linked to said posting platform, comprising a masking processor defining a display area on said base image layer and a masking area on said base image layer in responsive to said personal product being worn by said wearer, and a test-wearing image creator creating a test-wearing image when said product image layer is overlapped on said base image layer, wherein a portion of said image of said personal product within said display area is visibly shown on said image of said wearer while a portion of said image of said personal product within said masking area is invisibly hidden, such that said test-wearing image contains a virtual appearance of said wearer actually wearing said personal product.

27. The system, as recited in claim 26, wherein said product database contains images of spectacle frames for being selected by said wearer and for being overlapped on a facial image of said wearer of said base image layer.

28. The system, as recited in claim 27, wherein said masking processor defines said display area between two facial side peripherals of said facial image and said masking area at each of auricle areas of said facial image on said base image layer, such that when said product image layer is overlapped on said base image layer, a corresponding portion of said image of said spectacle frame within said display area is visibly shown between said facial side peripherals of said facial image while another portion of said image of said spectacle frame within said masking area is invisibly hidden to generate said test-wearing image containing said virtual appearance of said wearer wearing said spectacle frame.

29. The system, as recited in claim 28, wherein said masking processor contains one or more reference marks selectively located on said base image layer to define said display area and said masking area in responsive to said reference marks.

30. The system, as recited in claim 29, wherein two of said reference marks are selectively located at two pupils of said wearer of said image thereof to form two masking marks at said facial side peripherals of said facial image respectively on said base image layer, wherein a distance between said two masking marks is set to be larger than a distance between said two reference marks.

31. The system, as recited in claim 30, wherein said masking processor further modifies said product image layer to form a preset reserving area at said image of said personal product such that said reserving area is visibly shown within both said display area and said masking area.

32. The system, as recited in claim 31, further comprising a frame calibrator for calibrating a frame scale of said spectacle image with respect to said facial image, wherein said frame calibrator is communicatively linked to said posting platform for posting a reference image layer which contains an image of said wearer wearing an own spectacle frame for said wearer to locate said two reference marks at said pupils of said wearer of said images on said reference image layer, wherein said frame calibrator comprises a scale processor not only comparing a reference width of said own spectacle frame on said reference image layer with an actual width of said own spectacle frame but also determining a distance between said pupils of said wearer to match with said frame scale of said spectacle image with respect to said facial image of said wearer on said base image layer.

33. The system, as recited in claim 32, wherein said frame calibrator further determines a reference proportion of said facial image with respect to said distance between said pupils of said wearer, wherein an angle of said facial position of said wearer on said base image layer is determined in responsive to a change of said distance between said reference marks such that said image of said spectacle frame is correspondingly changed its orientation to match with said angle of said facial position of said wear to overlap said product image layer on said base image layer.

34. The system, as recited in claim 33, wherein said frame calibrator further determines a temple wearable length of said spectacle image on said product image layer is determined in responsive to an actual temple wearable length of said spectacle frame, wherein said temple wearable length of said spectacle image is proportionally determined by said reference length of said nose of said wearer.