Unified Browsing Interface for Mixed-Scale Clothing Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image browsing systems lack the ability to seamlessly combine disparate images of a subject to create new outfit combinations, limiting users' options for fashion choices and item coordination.
Innovation Solution
An interactive user interface that segments and aligns images from different data sources to present a unified view of the subject wearing hypothetical outfits, using advanced image processing techniques like segmentation and alignment models to combine image portions from different images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If images are segmented and aligned from different data sources to create unified views, then the versatility of fashion combinations is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments images into distinct portions (e.g., upper body, lower body, accessories) from different source images. This segmentation enables the recombination of items from multiple images to create new hypothetical outfit combinations, directly increasing fashion combination options while managing complexity through modular image processing
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary alignment model that acts as a mediator between disparate image sources. This alignment model standardizes and coordinates images from different data sources, enabling seamless integration and combination while abstracting the complexity of image processing from the user interface
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple image portions are combined to present hypothetical outfits, then the adaptability of item coordination is improved, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment model creates equipotential reference frames across multiple images by establishing consistent coordinate systems and transformation parameters. This approach simplifies the detection and measurement processes by providing standardized reference points, making it easier to align and combine image portions from different sources with varying perspectives and scales
Data Source
AI summary
Features are disclosed for an interface for browsing images of items having different scales and lengths such as clothing. The interface may present two portions of a subject, each portion selected from different data stores of images. The interface may provide a unified view of the portions. For example, a first portion may be taken from an image of the subject wearing a golf shirt and long pants. A second portion may be taken from an image of the subject wearing a long sleeved shirt and shorts. The first portion may show only the golf shirt and the second portion may show only the shorts thereby providing a depiction of what the subject would look like wearing the shirt shown in the first image with the shorts shown in the second image.