Clothing Recommendation System Using Body Type Rules

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing clothing recommendation systems face challenges in efficiently recommending clothing items that match individual body types, as they often rely solely on measurements without considering additional user information, leading to suboptimal recommendations.

Innovation Solution

A clothing recommendation system that acquires both body measurements and additional user information, uses predefined rules to determine body type characteristics, and retrieves corresponding clothing items from a database, ensuring accurate size and style matching.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If only body measurements are used for clothing recommendations, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but the recommendation accuracy and personalization are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple information sources including body measurements, body type characteristics (determined through predefined rules), and additional user information into a unified recommendation framework. This merging of diverse data types enables accurate and personalized clothing recommendations while maintaining system operability through automated processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is designed to handle multiple types of input data (measurements, body type characteristics, user preferences) and process them through a unified recommendation engine. This multi-functional approach allows the same system to accommodate various clothing items and user profiles without requiring separate specialized systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple user information parameters are collected and processed, then personalized recommendations are achieved, but the information processing complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs predefined rules that establish correspondence relationships between body measurements and body type characteristics in advance. These pre-established rules enable the system to quickly determine body type characteristics without requiring complex real-time analysis, thus reducing processing time while maintaining personalization capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces complex manual analysis and subjective judgment with automated computational processing. By using predefined rules and algorithmic processing to determine body type characteristics and generate recommendations, the system efficiently handles multiple user parameters without the time consumption associated with manual evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Manufacturing precision

If comprehensive body type characteristics are determined using predefined rules, then accurate clothing size matching is achieved, but the rule complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveclothing size matching accuracyVSAvoidrule complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the determination of body type characteristics into distinct components based on different body measurements. Each measurement or measurement combination is associated with specific body type characteristics through predefined rules, allowing the system to accurately determine multiple characteristics (such as bust type, waist type, hip type) independently and then integrate them for comprehensive clothing recommendations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3935983B1Clothing recommendation system, clothing recommendation method, and clothing recommendation program
Publication Date: 2024.08.07 WACOAL
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AI summary

A clothing recommendation system according to an embodiment includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: acquire a measured value of a body of a user; acquire additional information of the user other than the measured value; determine, based on a rule indicating a relationship between a measured value of a body of a person and a body type characteristic that is a characteristic of a body type of the person, the body type characteristic of the user from the acquired measured value; refer to a database storing clothing information indicating a correspondence relationship between clothing items and body type characteristics, and retrieve a clothing item corresponding to a clothing size of the user, the determined body type characteristic, and the acquired additional information; and output recommendation information indicating the retrieved clothing item.