Virtual Fitting Support Device for Skin Tone Color Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers face difficulties in selecting clothes that match their appearance, particularly in terms of color shade, when trying on clothes in a physical fitting room, as existing virtual fitting systems primarily focus on body shape compatibility rather than color matching.
Innovation Solution
A fitting support device and method that captures user images, detects body shape and posture, and processes color characteristic data to create fitting image data, incorporating three-dimensional body shape data colored to match the user's skin tone, and synthesizes this with clothing data to display a realistic fitting image, including background data for enhanced realism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a virtual fitting system combines clothing image with body shape of a body model to display wearing state, then the body shape compatibility can be examined, but it is difficult to examine whether the clothes have color shade that matches user's skin color
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user's image into skin color regions and non-skin color regions. The skin color extraction unit specifically isolates skin color information from the captured user image by analyzing color characteristics and separating skin tones from other elements like clothing and background. This segmentation enables precise color shade matching without requiring complex full-image processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts skin color information from the captured user image by identifying and isolating skin color characteristics. The skin color extraction unit takes out only the relevant skin color data from the entire image, comparing it with the clothing color information. This extraction approach simplifies the matching process by focusing only on the essential color comparison between skin and clothing.
2Reliability
If multiple clothes are tried on to find the most preferable clothes, then the selection quality improves, but the time required increases due to repeated fittings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the user's appearance by capturing the user's image, extracting body shape information, and generating a virtual model that displays the wearing state of different clothes. This virtual fitting copy allows users to try on multiple clothes virtually without physical changing, enabling comparison of multiple options simultaneously and significantly reducing the time required for multiple fittings while maintaining selection accuracy.
3Ease of operation
If the user views the displayed image to select clothes matching appearance, then the selection process is simplified, but the examination from multiple viewpoints (design and color) becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a fitting support device as an intermediary between the user and the clothes selection process. This device captures the user's image, extracts skin color information, compares it with clothing color data, and provides guidance on color matching. The intermediary automates the complex color analysis and presents simplified recommendations to the user, making multi-viewpoint examination easy while maintaining operational convenience.
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AI summary
An object of the present invention is to provide a fitting support device and method which make it possible to reliably select apparel such as clothes that match user's appearance. The fitting support device includes: a color-characteristic processing unit 100 that acquires color characteristic data relating to user's skin color on the basis of captured image data; a body processing unit 101 that colors, on the basis of the color characteristic data, three-dimensional body shape data corresponding to body shape data on a user to thereby create body image data; a color-pattern processing unit 102 that acquires color pattern data corresponding to the color characteristic data, on the basis of clothing data; a wearing processing unit 103 that creates wearing image data on the basis of the body image data and the color pattern data; and a fitting processing unit 104 that creates fitting image data by synthesizing head portion image data on the user and the wearing image data.