Automated Styler System for Style-Conforming Outfit Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional retail and online shopping experiences focus on item-by-item selection, lacking the ability to visualize and shop based on collective styles, making it difficult for customers to discover cohesive outfit combinations.
Innovation Solution
An automated stylist system that generates and presents outfits conforming to specific styles by programmatically selecting items from various types, using style definitions, templates, and rules to ensure cohesive and holistic visual presentations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional item-by-item shopping experience is used, then customers can browse individual items easily, but customers cannot visualize or shop based on collective styles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual clothing items into a unified outfit presentation. The system merges separate item listings (pants, shirts, accessories) into cohesive outfit combinations that display collective style, allowing customers to visualize complete looks rather than isolated products.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a new dimension to the shopping experience by transitioning from one-dimensional item browsing to multi-dimensional outfit visualization. The system presents items in the context of complete outfits, adding the dimension of style coherence and collective aesthetics to the traditional item-by-item viewing approach.
2Adaptability or versatility
If automated outfit generation is implemented, then style-based shopping is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining style guidelines, templates, and rules for outfit composition. Style definitions and templates are established in advance, enabling the automated stylist to generate coherent outfits without real-time complex decision-making, thus reducing operational complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces style definitions and templates as intermediary elements between the clothing items and the final outfit presentation. These intermediaries mediate the complex matching process by providing structured rules and guidelines, simplifying the automated decision-making while enabling versatile style-based shopping.
3Loss of information
If items are presented individually, then product details are clear, but cohesive outfit combinations are not visible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the outfit presentation into individual item components while maintaining their collective context. Each clothing item is clearly defined and described individually, yet simultaneously presented as part of a cohesive outfit combination, preserving both item detail clarity and collective style information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a nested structure where individual clothing items are nested within outfit combinations. Each item maintains its individual identity and detailed description while being contained within and contextualized by the larger outfit ensemble, allowing simultaneous viewing of both individual product details and collective style.
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AI summary
An auto-styler device may provide a style-based or outfit-driven shopping experience. The auto-styler device may select a style definition that defines a style-conforming outfit based on rules that apply to a combination of a first item type and a second item type of the style-conforming outfit, and that defines a customized presentation for the style-conforming outfit. The auto-styler device may generate a style-conforming outfit with a first item of the first item type and a second item of the second item type in response to a collective style produced by the combination satisfying the rules. The auto-styler device may position and size a first image of the first item relative to a second image of the second item in a single interface based on the specified the customized presentation of the style definition, and may present or publish the resulting single interface on a merchant site.