US 10,008,039 B1Granted

Augmented reality fitting approach

AssigneeA9.com, Inc.

InventorsAdam Moshe Neustein, William Brendel, Kaolin Imago Fire, Mark Jay Nitzberg, Sunil Ramesh, Mark Scott Waldo

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Abstract

Various approaches discussed herein enable providing a virtual reality experience of trying on clothes by augmenting an image of an article of clothing so that it appears to be worn by a particular person who is represented in a separate image. The image of the person wearing a special article of clothing containing a number of gridlines is analyzed along with an image of the special article of clothing as it appears unworn. The analysis includes calculating differences in the images to determine a change in the position of the gridlines between the images, then used to generate body shape data. The body shape data is used to augment an image of a prospective article of clothing, which modified image is then combined with the image of the person wearing a special article of clothing and displayed.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, from a computing device, an image of a person wearing an article of clothing, the article of clothing being in a worn state and having a contour marking representing an outline of the article of clothing, the article of clothing further having a fitting grid comprising a substantially symmetrical grid of a plurality of horizontal gridlines and vertical gridlines;
determining a first relative position of at least one of the plurality of horizontal gridlines and at least one of the plurality of vertical gridlines of the article of clothing in an unworn state;
determining a second relative position of at least one of the plurality of horizontal gridlines and at least one of the plurality of vertical gridlines of the article of clothing in the worn state, the first relative position and the second relative position corresponding to approximately the same location of the article of clothing;
analyzing the image to determine a difference in the first relative position and the second relative position;
receiving an indication of a selection of a prospective article of clothing;
retrieving an image of the prospective article of clothing, the image indicated as capable of modification;
determining a location in the image of the prospective article of clothing corresponding to the first relative position and the second relative position of the article of clothing;
causing, at the location, a modification of the image of the prospective article of clothing, the modification of the image representing the difference in the first relative position and the second relative position and resulting in a modified image of the prospective article of clothing;
causing the modified image of the prospective article of clothing to be displayed along with the image of the person, the modified image of the prospective article of clothing being positioned for display according to the contour marking to appear worn by the person;
storing data representing the difference in the first relative position and the second relative position;
and
associating the data with a unique identifier.

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A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving a received image containing a representation of an article of clothing being worn by a person, the article of clothing having a contour marking representing an outline of the article of clothing and a grid of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines;
comparing at least a portion of the grid represented in the received image with at least a corresponding portion of the grid represented in one or more images of the article of clothing when not worn by a person;
determining, based on the comparing of the at least a portion of the grid, body shape data associated with the person;
causing a modification of an image of a prospective article of clothing based at least on the body shape data, resulting in a modified image of the prospective article of clothing;
causing the modified image of the prospective article of clothing to be displayed in combination with the received image, the modified image of the prospective article of clothing being positioned on the received image based at least on the contour marking;
determining a set of purchases of the prospective article of clothing, the set of purchases made by customers associated with substantially similar body shape data to the person;
determining, for each size of the prospective article of clothing available for purchase, a rate at which each size of the set of purchases was returned for a different size;
and
providing a suggested size of the prospective article of clothing for purchase by the person, based at least upon the rate or the different size.

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A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to:
receive a received image containing a representation of an article of clothing being worn by a person, the article of clothing having a contour marking representing an outline of the article of clothing and a grid of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines;
compare at least a portion of the grid represented in the received image with at least a corresponding portion of the grid represented in one or more images of the article of clothing when not worn by a person;
determine, based on the comparing of the at least a portion of the grid, body shape data associated with the person;
cause a modification of an image of a prospective article of clothing based at least on the body shape data, resulting in a modified image of the prospective article of clothing;
cause the modified image of the prospective article of clothing to be displayed in combination with the received image, the modified image of the prospective article of clothing being positioned on the received image based at least on the contour marking;
determine a set of purchases of the prospective article of clothing, the set of purchases made by customers associated with substantially similar body shape data to the person;
determine, for each size of the prospective article of clothing available for purchase, a rate at which each size of the set of purchases was returned for a different size;
and
provide a suggested size of the prospective article of clothing for purchase by the person, based at least upon the rate or the different size.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.