Next Generation Eyewear Retailing
OwnerReginald W. Hunterinventor
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method of viewing eyewear products is provided, which includes capturing a digital image of a consumer; standardizing the digital image of the consumer to a set coordinate system, providing a database containing a collection of eyewear images, wherein the images represent actual products for sale, searching the database of eyewear images using criteria input by the consumer, selecting an eyewear image from the search results, superimposing the selected eyewear image onto the digital image of the consumer to give the appearance of the consumer wearing the eyewear, and viewing the image of the eyewear superimposed on the consumer.
Claims20
A method of viewing eyewear products, comprising:
- providing at least one image of a consumer;
- uploading the at least one image of the consumer to a website;
- assigning digital parameters to the at least one image of the consumer;
- translating the at least one image of the consumer into a standardized coordinate system;
- superimposing images of eyewear onto the at least one image of the consumer, wherein the images of the eyewear are available from an online database;
- and
- viewing the image of the eyewear superimposed on the at least one image of the consumer.
The method of claim 12, wherein the images of the eyewear are superimposed on the multiple images of the consumer to represent the consumer wearing the eyewear from multiple angles.
A method of viewing eyewear products, comprising:
- capturing a digital image of a consumer;
- standardizing the digital image of the consumer;
- providing a database containing a collection of eyewear images, wherein the eyewear images in the database represent products offered for sale;
- searching the database of eyewear images using criteria input by the consumer;
- selecting an eyewear image from the results of searching the database;
- superimposing the selected eyewear image onto the digital image of the consumer;
- and
- viewing the selected image of the eyewear superimposed on the consumer image so as to give the appearance of the consumer wearing the eyewear.
A method of retailing eyewear, comprising:
- providing a database of digital images of eyewear representing products for sale, wherein the database is searchable;
- selecting a digital image of eyewear from the database;
- providing a digital image of a consumer;
- and
- superimposing the digital image of the selected eyewear onto the digital image of the consumer, wherein the combined images represent the consumer wearing the selected eyewear
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.