Makeup counseling apparatus

• US 7,088,386 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2001
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shiseido Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Shiseido Company Limited
• Inventors: Goto, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye, Lin
• Application Number:
  US10/018,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20030007071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,937 Days
• Field of Search: 348/14.03, 348/14.07, 348/61, 348/77, 348/373
• US Class Current: 348/77
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 44/005 for selecting or displaying personal cosmetic colours or hairstyle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/448 Hair evaluation, e.g. for hair disorder diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 2003/466 Coded colour; Recognition of predetermined colour; Determining proximity to predetermined colour
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/0278 Control or determination of height or angle information for sensors or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/50 using electric radiation detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/524 Calibration of colorimeters
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation

Abstract

The present invention is composed of a computer positioned at a basal portion of an apparatus for conducting image processing and counseling processing; a first image display means for displaying a computer-processed image to a subject, mounted upright in the computer, a second image display means for displaying the computer-processed image to a counselor, mounted upright in the computer so that a display screen thereof is directed in a direction opposite the first display means; and photographic means, positioned near the first image display means, for photographing a subject directed in a direction of the first display means and feeding a facial image of the subject into the computer, thus making the apparatus small in scale and simple in composition, and suitable for a counselor to provide counseling on make-up to a subject.

Claims

1. A make-up counseling apparatus comprising:

a computer positioned at a basal portion of the apparatus for conducting image processing and make-up counseling processing for make-up of a subject'"'"'s face;

a first image display means for displaying a computer-processed image of the subject'"'"'s face to a subject, mounted upright in the computer;

a second image display means for displaying the computer-processed image of the subject'"'"'s face to a counselor, mounted upright in the computer so that a display screen thereof is directed in a direction opposite the first display means; and

photographic means, positioned near the first image display means, for photographing the subject'"'"'s face directed in a direction of the first display means and feeding a facial image of the subject'"'"'s face into the computer.

2. The make-up counseling apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a space bounded by the computer and by the first and second image display means contains the photographic means.

3. The make-up counseling apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the photographic means comprises:

a digital camera for photographing the subject'"'"'s face;

a strobe for illuminating the subject'"'"'s face; and

a distance sensor for measuring a distance to the subject'"'"'s face.

4. The make-up counseling apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first image display means has a transparent touch panel on the display surface.

5. The make-up counseling apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second image display means has a transparent touch panel on the display surface.

6. The make-up counseling apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein display contents of the first image display means and display contents of the second image display means are identical.

7. The make-up counseling apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display contents of the first image display means and the display contents of the second image display means are different.