Method for eyewear simulation and a device for its practice
AssigneeAsahi Glass Company, Limited
InventorsMasaru Mori, Tetsuo Miyake, Kazuaki Shimizu
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Abstract
An image of a person who has taken off his/her spectacles is taken on a video camera; then video signals for the image of the person are A/D-converted and stored into a video memory device as the digital signals; thereafter display signals are produced by synthesizing data for the image of the person and data for the spectacles frame as stored in the video memory device; and finally a state of the person with the spectacles frame being put on his/her face is displayed on a display device to thereby match the spectacles with the person.
Claims14
A method for eyewear simulation, wherein a spectacles frame is matched with a person, said method comprising:
- projecting a reference area on a display device;
- aligning an image of a person who has taken off his/her spectacles taken with a video camera on said display device with said reference area;
- converting analog signals from said camera to digital signals representing the aligned image of the person by an A/D-conversion,
- storing into a video memory device the converted digital signals;
- thereafter displaying the aligned image which is produced by synthesizing data for the image of the person and data for the spectacles frame as stored in the video memory device;
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- finally displaying the person with the spectacles frame superimposed on his/her face on a display device to thereby match the spectacles with the person.
An apparatus for eyewear simulation comprising:
- a computer unit having a central processing unit;
- a video digitizer, a video memory device, a display interface, and a memory device for storing digital data connected to said central processing unit through a bus in which said memory device is directly connected,
- a video camera coupled to said video digitizer;
- a display device, having means for taking an image of a person without spectacles being put on his/her face by said video camera,
- an alignment means for projecting on said display device an alignment area for aligning the image of said person with a predetermined area on said display device,
- means for taking the video signals of the person's image, A/D-converting said image and storing said converted image in said video memory device in the form of digital signals and,
- means for synthesizing data for the spectacles frame from data stored in said video memory device to produce display signals through said display interface, thereby displaying on said display device an image of a person wearing spectacles on his/her face based on the display signals,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.