Body profile coding method and apparatus useful for assisting users to select wearing apparel
OwnerPeter Ar-Fu Laminventor
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Abstract
A computer supported system especially configured for users to easily coordinate or harmonize apparel before making a purchasing decision. The embodiments include a body profile generating, encoding and decoding system. The system defines a display region configured for displaying the personalized real human facial image of a user combining the visual image of a selected garment. The shape and size of the garment is faithfully adjusted in accordance to the body profile coding parameters of the garment. The database representing the facial images of users is shared by different stores.
Claims44
A method of producing a body profile (BP) code to describe the physical dimensions of a human and/or garment body, said method including:
- defining m different physical dimensional parameters of a body;
- measuring for each of said m defined parameters a physical dimension of said body to respectively produce m values;
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- processing said m values to produce said BP code comprising a compressed multidigit code representing said m values.
A body profile code processing system comprising:
- a first computing apparatus having an input device and a visual output device;
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- a program executable by said first computing apparatus, said program being configured to (1) encode multiple body measurements by a first algorithm for producing a compressed multiple digit Body Profile code and/or (2) convert a compressed multiple digit Body Profile code by a second algorithm into a group of data each representing a measurement of a body.
A method to facilitate garment shopping comprising the steps of:
- (1) measuring the body related dimensions of a person;
- (2) establishing a standard format to record the body profile dimensions;
- (3) providing a record represented by a card or a portable media;
- (4) storing the body related dimensions of said person into said record;
A business method for use by clothing retailers for facilitating the selection of appropriately sized garments for a customer, said method comprising:
- acquiring a compressed customer body profile (BP) code defining multiple values respectively describing different physical dimensions of a customer's body;
- providing one or more garments of different dimensional measurements;
- processing the values represented by said compressed customer BP code and the dimensional measurements of said garment(s) to provide fitting information related to said customer's body and said garment(s), said fitting information includes but not limited to dimensional, or size, or visual information;
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- producing human readable output or a visual display to present said fitting information.
A business method for use by clothing retailers for facilitating the selection of appropriately sized garments for a customer, said method comprising:
- acquiring a compressed customer body profile (BP) code defining multiple values respectively describing different physical dimensions of a customer's body;
- providing two or more garment(s) of different dimensional measurements;
- processing the values of said compressed customer BP code and the dimensional measurements of said garments(s) to recommend a fitted garment for said customer.
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