Automatic color palette based recommendations for affiliated colors

• US 9,916,613 B1
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dorner, Charles Shearer, Blackburn, Jenny Ann, Haitani, Robert Yuji, Manolis, Eva, Ong, Timothy Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai, Tsung-Yin
• Application Number:
  US14/316,467
• Time in Patent Office: 1,356 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for generating color-related item recommendations using color palette information. A request may be received from a user for a color-related item recommendation. The request may include an input image and one or more item attributes. Based at least in part on an analysis of the input image to identify affiliated colors to the input image and the one or more item attributes, one or more items corresponding to the affiliated colors and the one or more item attributes are identified. Where there is more than one identified item, a ranking for the identified plurality of items may be generated. Item recommendations comprising at least a portion of the identified plurality of items in accordance with the generated ranking may be provided for presentation on a user device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of a hardware computing device configured with specific computer-executable instructions,

receiving, from a user device, a request for a color-related recommendation, the request including an input image and one or more item attributes;

processing the input image to generate one or more affiliated color palettes based at least in part on the input image, wherein an affiliated color palette is a color palette having a first color corresponding to a color in a color palette for the input image and one or more additional colors not in the color palette for the input image, the one or more additional colors determined based at least in part on;

the one or more additional colors being included in other color palettes having the first color; and

a respective rating for each of the other color palettes;

identifying, using information obtained from an electronic item data store, a plurality of items corresponding to the one or more affiliated color palettes and the one or more item attributes;

generating a ranking for the identified plurality of items; and

generating for display on the user device, in accordance with the generated ranking, an item recommendation for each item of at least a portion of the identified plurality of items, each recommendation comprising an image for the item.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the color palette for the input image is determined from metadata associated with the input image.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the color palette for the input image is determined by identifying a plurality of representative colors and associated weights from a color distribution corresponding to the input image.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the rating is a number of votes or corresponds to a weight associated with the number of votes.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronic item data store includes images of items from an electronic catalog of items being offered for sale via a networked commerce system.

6. A system comprising:

a data store configured to at least store computer-executable instructions; and

a hardware processor in communication with the data store, the hardware processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least;

receive a request for a color-related recommendation, the request including an input image and an item attribute;

process the input image to generate an affiliated color palette based at least in part on the input image, wherein the affiliated color palette is a color palette having a first color within a color range of a color in a color palette for the input image and an additional color outside a color range of any individual color identified in the color palette for the input image, the additional color determined based at least in part on the additional color being included in other color palettes having the color in the color palette for the input image;

identify one or more items corresponding to the affiliated color palette and the item attribute; and

generate an item recommendation for at least a portion of the identified one or more items, each item recommendation including an image for the item.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least:

generate a ranking for the identified one or more items; and

provide the generated item recommendations for display in accordance with the generated ranking for the identified one or more items.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the color palette for the input image is determined from the input image by selecting a palette color from a plurality of representative colors identified from the input image.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the plurality of representative colors are identified by selecting a subset of colors from a set of colors depicted by the input image based at least in part on a color distance associated with the subset of colors.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of representative colors are further identified by merging individual colors of the selected subset of colors with similar colors in the set of colors depicted by the input image, respectively.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein individual representative colors of the plurality of representative colors are identified by determining a dominance of the individual representative color among a plurality of colors depicted by the input image.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more items corresponding to the affiliated color palette are identified from electronic images of items from a user'"'"'s wardrobe.

13. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more items corresponding to the affiliated color palette are identified from an electronic catalog of items.

14. The system of claim 7, wherein the ranking is generated based at least in part on at least one of a calendar date, a season, a weather forecast, a geographic location associated with a user, or an event scheduled on a calendar of a user.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform operations comprising:

processing the input image to generate an affiliated color palette based at least in part on an image, wherein the affiliated color palette is a color palette having a first color within a color range of a color in a color palette for the image and an additional color outside a color range of any individual color identified in the color palette for the input image, the additional color determined based at least in part on the additional color being included in other color palettes having the color in the color palette for the input image;

identifying a plurality of items corresponding to the affiliated color palette and an item attribute;

generating a ranking for the identified plurality of items; and

generating an item recommendation for each item of at least a portion of the identified plurality of items, each item recommendation including an image for the item, the item recommendations associated with the generated ranking.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the color palette corresponding to the image is determined from metadata associated with the image.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the color palette for the image is determined by identifying a plurality of representative colors and associated weights from a color distribution corresponding to the image.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the color palette for the image is generated in less than 10 seconds.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15,

wherein the plurality of items corresponding to the affiliated color palette are identified from electronic images of items from a user'"'"'s wardrobe.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the plurality of items corresponding to the affiliated color palette are identified from an electronic catalog of items.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the ranking is generated based at least in part on at least one of a calendar date, a season, a weather forecast, a geographic location associated with a user, or an event scheduled on a calendar of a user.