ONLINE CLOTHING SHOPPING USING 3D IMAGE OF SHOPPER

• US 20120022978A1
• Filed: 07/20/2010
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Manea, Natalia, Manea, Ciprian
• Granted Patent: US 8,321,301 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

A shopper inputs a 3D image of himself to a computer which normalizes the image to a standard. The shopper can select an article of clothing from a web site and the image of the article is normalized to the shopper'"'"'s image using the same normalization standard and superimposed onto the shopper'"'"'s image. The manufacturer'"'"'s size corresponding to the correct article size may also be displayed.

Claims

1. Computer assembly comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one network interface communicating with the processor to establish communication between the processor and a wide area network;

at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing logic causing the processor to;

receive an image of a shopper;

normalize the image of the shopper to a standard to render a normalized shopper image;

receive images of clothing articles, sizes thereof being normalized to the standard such that when first and second clothing articles from respective first and second article sources have respective first and second designated sizes from their respective article sources but are of the same size when compared to the standard, respective first and second images of the first and second clothing articles have identical sizes as each other when presented on a computer display;

receive a selection of one of the articles; and

responsive to the selection, generate a composite image of the image of the shopper and a user-selected one of the first or second images for presentation on a computer display.

2. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the images are 3D images.

3. The assembly of claim 1, wherein responsive to the selection of one of the articles, the processor determines a correct size of the article based on the normalized shopper image.

4. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the processor normalizes an image at least in part by comparing the respective size of the respective clothing article to a standard clothing article size.

5. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the processor normalizes an image at least in part by comparing the image to a visually presented scale.

6. The assembly of claim 3, wherein the correct size is presented on a display in terms of a clothing article source-defined size.

7. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the processor normalizes an image at least in part by comparing the image to a user-input dimension.

8. A method comprising:

receiving a 3D shopper image;

determining a correct clothing article size based on the shopper image; and

superimposing an image of a clothing article having the correct clothing article size on the 3D shopper image.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the image of the clothing article is 3D.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the clothing article is selected by a user from a clothing Web page.

11. The method of claim 8, comprising:

normalizing the 3D shopper image to a standard to render a normalized shopper image; and

normalizing images of clothing articles to the standard.

12. The method of claim 11, comprising normalizing an image at least in part by comparing a respective size of a respective clothing article to a standard clothing article size.

13. The method of claim 11, comprising normalizing an image at least in part by comparing the image to a visually presented scale.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the scale is linear.

15. The method of claim 11, comprising normalizing an image at least in part by comparing the image to a user-input dimension.

16. The method of claim 8, comprising presenting on a display a size from a source of the clothing article corresponding to the correct clothing article size.

17. Computer assembly comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one display controlled by the processor;

at least one network interface communicating with the processor to establish communication between the processor and a wide area network;

at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing logic causing the processor to execute logic comprising;

receiving a shopper image, the shopper image being normalized to a standard;

receiving a user selection of an article of clothing, a correct size of the article of clothing being determined based on the shopper image normalized to the standard;

presenting on the display an image of the article of clothing superimposed onto the shopper image; and

presenting on the display a manufacturer'"'"'s size corresponding to the correct size of the article of clothing.

18. The assembly of claim 17, wherein the images are 3D images.

19. The assembly of claim 18, wherein the processor normalizes an image at least in part by comparing the respective size of the respective clothing article to a standard clothing article size.

20. The assembly of claim 18, wherein the processor normalizes an image at least in part by comparing the image to a visually presented scale, or by comparing the image to a user-input dimension.