Cosmetic enhancement mirror

• US 7,683,858 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 03/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ventrk LLC
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Allen, Paul G., Levien, Royce A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Osorio; Ricardo L
• Application Number:
  US11/982,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20080136789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 345/8, 345/32, 345/156, 132/301, 434/371, D28/64.1
• US Class Current: 345/32
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 44/005 for selecting or displaying personal cosmetic colours or hairstyle
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/10 Use of a protocol of communication by packets in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/022 using memory planes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/026 Control of mixing and/or overlay of colours in general G09G5/022 and G09G5/024 take precedence

Abstract

Cosmetic enhancement mirror methods and related systems.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accepting input related to an image of a digital mirror; and

presenting one or more enhanced images related to at least a part of the image of the digital mirror, wherein said presenting one or more enhanced images related to at least a part of the image of the digital mirror includes;

identifying one or more anatomical landmarks demarcating the at least a part of the image of the digital mirror;

enhancing at least a part of one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks; and

presenting one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks, wherein said means for presenting one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks includes;

registering at least a portion of the one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks demarcating the at least the part of the image of the digital mirror.

2. A system comprising:

means for accepting input related to an image of a digital mirror; and

means for presenting one or more enhanced images related to at least a part of the image of the digital mirror, wherein said means for presenting one or more enhanced images related to at least a part of the image of the digital mirror includes;

means for identifying one or more anatomical landmarks demarcating the at least a part of the image of the digital mirror;

means for enhancing at least a part of one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks; and

means for presenting one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks, wherein said means for presenting one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks includes;

means for registering at least a portion of the one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks demarcating the at least the part of the image of the digital mirror.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for accepting input related to an image of a digital mirror further comprises:

means for accepting touch input to a surface proximate to the at least a part of the image of the digital mirror.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said means for accepting touch input to a surface proximate to the at least a part of the image of the digital mirror further comprises:

means for detecting input to a touch sensitive device associated with the digital mirror.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for accepting input related to an image of a digital mirror further comprises:

means for accepting input of at least one of a user touching herself, a user gesturing, or a user speaking in relation to the at least a part of the image of the digital mirror.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for presenting one or more enhanced images related to at least a part of the image of the digital mirror further comprises:

means for obtaining one or more images having the at least a part of the image of the digital mirror.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for presenting one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks further comprises:

means for at least one of sequencing or presenting at least a portion of the one or more enhanced versions of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for enhancing at least a part of the one or more images having the one or more anatomical landmarks further comprises:

means for enhancing a specified feature having a state.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said means for enhancing a specified feature having a state further comprises:

means for enhancing at least one skin feature.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein said means for enhancing a specified feature having a state further comprises:

means for enhancing at least one body region.