Lip categorizing method, makeup method, categorizing map, and makeup tool

• US 8,082,926 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2005
• Issued: 12/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shiseido Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Shiseido Company Limited
• Inventors: Yano, Hiroko, Kera, Hirofumi, Matsuyama, Wakae, Kuroki, Kumiko, Ishida, Miki, Sasaki, Yuko, Okamoto, Miyako, Goto, Yasuo, Masushio, Yoshiko, Nishijima, Etsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Manahan, Todd
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELGART, VANITHA M
• Application Number:
  US11/665,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20090139536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,254 Days
• Field of Search: 132/200, 132/319, 132/333, 434/98, 434/99, 434/100, 382/100, 382/118, 382/154, 382/274, 340/5.53, 340/5.83
• US Class Current: 132/200
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/30 Masks for marking lips or eyelashes
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 44/005 for selecting or displaying personal cosmetic colours or hairstyle

Abstract

A lip categorizing method uses the size and shape of the lips as viewed from the front of the face as a first categorization index and the three-dimensional form of the lips as a second categorization index. The lip categorizing map is composed of a first coordinate axis showing the degree of the first categorization index and a second coordinate axis showing the degree of the second categorization index and has a coordinate system in which the first and second coordinate axes are orthogonal. It also generates makeup information for two-dimensionally correcting the lips of a subject based on preset reference by setting a plurality of points for determining the form features of lips on an image that depicts the lips, and judges the form features of the lips of the subject based on analytical values of the two-dimensional features of the lips measured from the set points.

Claims

1. A lip categorizing method comprising:

categorizing lips using the size and shape of lips as viewed from the front of a face as a first categorization index and using the three-dimensional form of the lips as a second categorization index, in order to enable determination of a form image of the lips,

wherein the first categorization index includes as indices at least the lateral width of the lips, the form of the crests and trough of the lips, and the form of the bottom of the lower lip, while the second categorization index includes as indices at least whether the contour shape of the lips is linear or curved, and the three-dimensional form of the lips.

2. A lip categorizing map comprising:

a first coordinate axis showing the degree of a first categorization index using as indices the size and shape of the lips as viewed from the front of the face; and

a second coordinate axis showing the degree of a second categorization index using as indices the three-dimensional form of the lips,

the determination of a form image of the lips being allowed by composing a coordinate system in which the first and second coordinate axes are orthogonal.

3. The lip categorizing map according to claim 2, wherein lips having a standard form are located in the center of the coordinate system.

4. The lip categorizing map according to claim 2, wherein the first categorization index includes as indices at least the lateral width of the lips, the form of the crests and trough of the lips, and the form of the bottom of the lower lip, while the second categorization index includes as indices at least whether the contour shape of the lips is linear or curved, and the three-dimensional form of the lips.

5. A lip makeup method comprising:

generating makeup information for two-dimensionally correcting the lips of a subject based on preset reference by setting a plurality of points for determining the form features of lips on an image depicting the lips, and judging the form features of the lips of the subject based on analytical values of the two-dimensional features of the lips measured from the set points.

wherein in addition to analysis of two-dimensional features of the lips, the three-dimensional appearance of the lips is determine by analyzing three-dimensional features of the lips according to brightness values of the image.

6. The makeup method according to claim 5, wherein the points used to determine form features of the lips comprise the position of the nose, the center positions of the nostrils, the positions of the crests and trough of the upper lip, the center position of the lips, the positions of the corners of the mouth, the center position of the lower lip, and the position of the jaw.

7. The lip makeup method according to claim 5, wherein the reference for generating makeup information for two-dimensionally correcting the lips comprise the five parameters indicated below:

parameter 1;

reference for indicating the positions of the corners of the mouth;

parameter 2;

reference for indicating the position of the upper lip;

parameter 3;

reference for indicating the position of the lower lip;

parameter 4;

reference for indicating the positions of the crests of the upper lip; and

parameter 5;

reference for indicating the position of the trough of the upper lip.

8. The makeup method according to claim 6, wherein the reference for indicating the positions of the corners of the mouth is defined as the positions determined based on the center of the lips.

9. The makeup method according to claim 6, wherein the reference for indicating the position of the upper lip is defined as the position one-third the distance from an oral slit to beneath the nose.

10. The makeup method according to claim 6, wherein the reference for indicating the position of the lower lip is defined as the position one-third the distance from an oral slit to the position of the jaw.

11. The makeup method according to claim 6, wherein the reference for indicating the positions of the crests of the upper lip is defined as the positions below the center of the nostrils.

12. The makeup method according to claim 6, wherein the reference for indicating the position of the trough of the upper lip is defined as the position 10 degrees downward from the crests towards the trough.

13. The makeup method according to claim 5, wherein the inherent outline of the lips and an outline of two-dimensionally corrected makeup information related to the lips of a subject are simultaneously displayed on an image of the lips of the subject.