Virtual Fitting Video Composition for Natural Image and Accurate Fit

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current virtual fitting technologies fail to provide a substantial and fitting experience, as they either lack the natural image reflection or cannot accurately simulate how clothes fit a user's body, due to limitations in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) methods.

Innovation Solution

A virtual fitting method and device that combines live video from AR and virtual video from VR by analyzing and composing the composition areas of both, allowing for accurate positioning of actual and virtual clothes, and adjusting movements and body shapes to reflect the fit of virtual clothes on a user's body.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If AR method is used to display natural image with user reflection, then image naturalness is improved, but fitting feeling accuracy deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage naturalnessVSAvoidfitting feeling accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges AR and VR methods by composing a live video (AR) and a virtual video (VR) into a composite video. The live video provides natural image reflection, while the virtual video provides accurate fitting simulation. By merging these two approaches, the system achieves both image naturalness and fitting feeling accuracy simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If VR method is used to generate avatar with same body shape, then fitting feeling accuracy is improved, but user identification deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefitting feeling accuracyVSAvoiduser identification
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the live video containing the actual user image with the virtual video containing the avatar. This merging allows the system to maintain accurate body shape matching through the avatar while preserving user identification through the live video component, resolving the contradiction between fitting accuracy and user recognition.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of manufacture

If virtual clothes are overlapped on user image, then implementation simplicity is improved, but fitting realism deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimplementation simplicityVSAvoidfitting realism
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the simple overlay approach of AR with the realistic simulation of VR. By composing both live video and virtual video, the system achieves fitting realism through the virtual video component while maintaining implementation simplicity through the automated composition process, overcoming the limitations of either approach alone.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10152829B2Virtual fitting device and virtual fitting method thereof
Publication Date: 2018.12.11 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are a virtual fitting device and a virtual fitting method thereof. The virtual fitting method includes acquiring a live video by photographing a user, acquiring a virtual video which includes an avatar corresponding to the user based on a body shape and a movement of the user, determining each composition area of the live video and the virtual video by analyzing the live video and the virtual video, and outputting a virtual fitting video by composing the composition area of the live video and the composition area of the virtual video.