Digital Inventory System for Virtual Fitting Room Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
E-commerce platforms struggle to replicate the integrated shopping experience of brick-and-mortar stores, lacking the emotional and social aspects of physical shopping, and face challenges in managing and presenting large inventory data coherently across online and physical marketplaces.
Innovation Solution
A digital inventory system that generates digital representations of physical items, allows users to create digital avatars for product compatibility evaluation, and facilitates social interactions by sharing avatar data, enabling e-stylist services and integrating online and offline shopping experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If e-commerce platforms present large inventory data coherently across online and physical marketplaces, then inventory management is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments inventory data into distinct categories (online marketplace inventory, physical store inventory, digital inventory) and manages each segment separately through dedicated data structures and processing logic. This segmentation allows coherent inventory management across multiple marketplaces while reducing the complexity of handling unified data by breaking it down into manageable portions with specific handling procedures for each type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a digital inventory system as an intermediary layer between online and physical marketplaces. This intermediary manages inventory data coherence by receiving, processing, and reconciling inventory information from both online and physical sources, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture through a dedicated mediation layer that handles the complexity of data integration.
2Ease of operation
If e-commerce platforms replicate integrated shopping experience of brick-and-mortar stores, then user experience is improved, but technology complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates digital representations (copies) of physical items and store environments. Digital inventory items replicate product information, images, and characteristics of physical goods, while virtual fitting rooms copy the experience of trying on clothes by displaying augmented reality overlays. These copies enable users to experience brick-and-mortar shopping convenience online without requiring actual physical store infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the shopping experience from purely two-dimensional online interfaces to three-dimensional augmented reality overlays. By superimposing digital product representations onto real-world environments through AR technology, the system adds a dimensional layer that replicates physical shopping interactions (seeing products on actual bodies, visualizing fit) while maintaining the convenience of online shopping.
3Reliability
If users visualize products on themselves using digital avatars, then purchasing confidence is improved, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes and stores user profile data, body type information, and product characteristics in advance. By preparing this data beforehand in structured formats, the system reduces real-time processing requirements when generating digital avatars and visualizing products. Users can select from pre-configured avatar templates and product databases, minimizing the computational load during the actual visualization process while still achieving accurate product representation.
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AI summary
Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for receiving a request for requesting assistance for evaluating a first item, the request being associated with a user account; identifying a plurality of closet items associated with the user account; a compatibility rule to determine a percentage of the plurality of closet items that are compatible with the first item; and causing display of a user interface of a device, the user interface including a display of the percentage of the plurality of closet items that are compatible with the first item.