KR100631581B1 - A mobile communication terminal having a fashion coordination function and a coordination method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having a fashion coordination function and a coordination method using the same. In the conventional clothes coordination system and method using a mobile communication terminal, a simple coordination provided by a server after accessing a specific server online Information or costumes provided only by the server can be virtually coordinated with the editing and video composition function provided online only on the server, so there is a fatal problem that the user's choice of clothes is very limited. There was a problem that coordination using images of clothes taken directly off-line or clothes images collected by different paths was impossible. In view of the above problems, the present invention edits costume images acquired by the user through various paths, selects and stores only the desired costume portion as unit costume information, and uses them to perform coordination on the mobile terminal itself or newly photographed costume. The unit outfits are displayed on the image so that the user can perform the coordination by synthesizing the desired outfits with the mobile communication terminal alone. And, by allowing it to be stored as a separate picture, there is an effect that allows the user to check whether the coordination of specific costumes will suit you without having to try on the costume yourself.

Description

Mobile communication terminal with fashion coordination function and coordination method using same {MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL WITH FASHION COORDINATION FUNCTION AND COORDINATING METHOD THEREOF}

1 is a conceptual diagram showing a coordination method of an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a coordination method improved an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a conceptual diagram showing a coordination method of another embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a flow chart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

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10: top costume unit data 20: bottom costume unit data

30: Coordination Screen 40: User Face Image

50: unit clothing 60: camera screen

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having a fashion coordination function and a coordination method using the same. In particular, unit outfit images and newly photographed images that are taken or held separately by oneself are freely coordinated (hereinafter, referred to as 'coordination'). The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having a fashion coordination function and a coordination method using the same, so that the user can identify a costume that is suitable for them.

As the use of mobile communication terminals has explosively increased, the performance and function improvement of mobile communication terminals are also rapidly progressing. Among them, the improvement direction of the mobile communication terminal is the development of a more colorful display unit and various multimedia generation and playback functions capable of supporting the same.

Recently, all mobile communication terminals have a large screen having a color expression characteristic of tens of thousands of colors, a built-in camera, etc., to take a picture of mega pixels or more, and display a screen shot through the screen having a high resolution. have.

Therefore, various functions that can utilize the performance of the mobile communication terminal are being developed one after another, and one of them is a coordination function. Simply provide the user with additional information such as the weather and the coordination of the recommended clothes, then access the special internet server and use the clothes data prepared in advance to coordinate the clothes in the desired style, and select the desired clothes. Services have also been developed to enable purchase.

For example, Korean Patent Application No. 2001-17399 (Coordination Information Providing Service System and Method of Operating the System) uses a mobile communication terminal to connect to a specific Internet site in real time, and wears a certain event or a specific weather. It proposes a system and method to get advice on whether to choose a product, and in Korea Patent Application No. 2001-22149 (a clothing sales system and method using image synthesis and editing technology through communication network) Apparel sales using the image synthesis and editing technology through a communication network that allows users to select a garment to purchase after accessing a specific website using a wireless communication network, and then cut, process and purchase it according to the taste, preference, and personality of the buyer. System and method are proposed.

The above-mentioned conventional clothes coordination information is mostly connected to a web server or a network server that provides information using a communication network or the Internet, and is provided with information required for coordination online, or a video synthesis and editing provided only through a website. This is how you can use technology to buy the right outfit for you.

Therefore, it is a system that only coordinates clothes provided by the corresponding service system and allows the user to purchase the corresponding clothes, and the fatal problem that the user cannot perform coordination using clothes found in offline or other online clothing sales sites. There is no choice but to limit the use of the user.

As described above, the conventional clothes coordination system and method using a mobile communication terminal is online, the simple coordination information provided by the server after accessing a specific server, or the clothes provided only by the server to provide the online only on the server It is possible to virtually coordinate with the editing and image composition function, so that the user's choice of clothes is very limited, there is a fatal problem, the user can directly take a picture of the clothes taken offline or the clothes images collected by other paths Coordination used was an impossible problem.

In view of the above problems, the present invention edits costume images acquired by the user through various paths, selects and stores only the desired costume portion as unit costume information, and uses them to perform coordination on the mobile terminal itself or newly photographed costume. The unit outfits are displayed on the image so that the user can perform the coordination by synthesizing the desired outfits with the mobile communication terminal alone. Another object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication terminal having a fashion coordination function and a coordination method using the same.

The present invention for achieving the above object, the image editing means for selectively extracting only the desired clothing area from the image obtained by the user to store the corresponding portion as the clothing unit data; An image database for storing image information including the edited images; And a costume coordinating means for searching and selecting the costume unit data according to a user's selection and displaying the costume unit data on the screen.

The clothes coordinating means may display the selected clothes unit data, move the corresponding clothes unit data to a desired position with an appropriate key input, and have a position and size adjusting tool that enlarges or reduces them in proportion to the ratio.

The clothes unit data may also include a face or body image of the user, and the face or body image of the user may be displayed on the overlapped displayed clothes data by means of the clothes coordination means.

In addition, the present invention comprises the steps of obtaining a costume-related image by the user; Storing the obtained image as it is, or removing the background other than the desired clothing area from the image by using image editing means and storing it as unit costume information; And selecting a desired image from the stored images and displaying the image on the single screen.

The step of displaying the image repeatedly may further include adjusting a corresponding image to a desired size and moving the image to a desired position when the selected image is unit clothes information.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an operation principle of an embodiment of the present invention, in which a user arbitrarily coordinates storage clothes images desired by a user by acquiring and storing predetermined clothes images and displaying them on a predetermined screen. It is to be done.

The clothing image referred to herein refers to clothing unit data obtained by a user through communication means (data having only clothing area data without a background), or clothing unit data obtained by removing a background area other than the desired clothes from a communication means or an image photographed directly. In the present invention, the clothing unit data is stored in an image database for storing various images, and it is based on a method of selecting and displaying the clothes unit data in duplicate on a single screen.

Here, a case in which the upper garment unit data 10 and the lower garment unit data 20 are selected from among the costume unit data is displayed on the coordination screen 30. Since the first displayed image can be obscured by the later displayed image, the bottom garment unit data 20 is displayed first, and the top garment unit data 10 is displayed later, so that the bottom is naturally made by the top. The hidden coordination screen 30 can also be obtained.

In order to implement this as a mobile terminal, an image editing means for selectively extracting only a desired costume area from an image acquired by a user (a costume image downloaded by a communication or a directly photographed costume) and storing the corresponding portion as costume unit data; An image database for storing image information including the edited images, and costume coordination means for searching and selecting the clothing unit data according to a user's selection and displaying the clothes unit data on the screen are displayed. These may be integrated into one coordination function, or may be separated according to each functional nature.

The clothing unit data may be used without image editing if only pure costume information in which parts other than the clothes-related area have been removed in advance may be used as an image, and if the background is to be used as a basic background, even if there is a background, it may be used without image editing.

However, if the image is not to be used as a background, and the image includes a costume and a background other than the costume to be frequently used in the basic coordination, it is necessary to remove the background around the costume, and an image editing means is required. The image editing means preferably has a function of selecting various areas and deleting unselected areas. The deletion means making a data value a maximum value, a minimum value, or a specific color value. The clothes unit data processed to have only data for a specific area may be displayed in duplicate in the clothes coordination means for displaying them. The area (part having a specific color value) deleted from the clothes unit data is processed transparently. In this case, even if the clothing unit data is repeatedly displayed, the previously displayed images may be transmitted.

The method of generating the clothing unit data by selecting only the clothes part included in the predetermined image by the image editing means may be various methods (methods used in various image processing software). If you are not free to move the cursor, here are some suggestions.

For example, if you select a specific color for the background that you want to erase from the image, you can use a color picker that automatically selects and removes adjacent areas that have a color that is close to that color. If you complete a closed curve by wrapping the outer portion of the garment with an atypical closed curve, you can use a region selection tool to remove the outer region of the closed curve.

Clothing unit data can be generated through the image editing means built in the mobile communication terminal in the above manner. If the user searches for and selects the generated image through the costume coordination means and displays it on one screen, the costumes can be arbitrarily coordinated.

To this end, the generated clothing unit data should be able to be displayed and moved on the screen, and if necessary, the size of the clothing unit data may be enlarged or reduced (because all the costume unit data do not have the same size). In addition, since multiple images can be overlapped, it is also possible to replace and display the image of the desired order of these with new clothing unit data.

2 is a case in which the concept of the clothing unit data is further expanded by modifying the embodiment of the present invention.

In order to provide more personalized coordination information to the user, the user's face image 40 may also be configured in the same manner as the clothing unit data, and other body parts may be configured in the same manner. Through this, the user can check the suitability of the clothes in the same state as if the user directly wore the corresponding clothes. In fact, not only the user's face image 40, but also a part of the body or the whole body can be extracted and used as unit data, through which coordination can be performed by applying the desired unit data to the body as a kind of doll play. do.

FIG. 3 illustrates another embodiment of the present invention, in which an unedited image including a clothes part is set as a background, and the clothing unit data is displayed on the background. For example, when a user browses a clothing store offline and selects a desired clothes, the user immediately photographs the clothes and displays the clothing unit data of the clothes that he already owns in the recorded video. It is a configuration to provide a convenience to coordinate the newly found clothes, for this purpose, it is possible to select and display not only the unit clothes data but also general unedited images through the clothes coordination means.

In the illustrated case, when the user has various clothes unit data 50 previously stored in his image storage database and his face data 40 similar to the clothes unit data, the newly discovered clothes Take a picture of the camera 60 and store it in a partial region of the image storage database (or store an image including a desired costume in various paths), and then use the costume coordinating means to display the stored unedited image 60 as a background. The clothing unit data 50, which is a costume that is already possessed, is selected, the size and the position thereof are adjusted, and then placed in the background. Then, by moving and resizing their face data 40 to an appropriate position, it is possible to know whether the newly found clothes are suitable for their faces and whether they match well with the clothes they already have.

According to the above method, not only simple clothes, but also accessories such as glasses, hats, necklaces, earrings, scarves, shawls, etc. can be duplicated and displayed in a desired size at a desired position, so that a more complete coordination can be simulated.

Recent mobile communication terminals have a function of providing a 3D avatar, through which a desired face shape, hairstyle shape, body shape, etc. can be selected to create an avatar similar to a specific person. Therefore, if the clothes unit data, the user's face data, etc. of the present invention as described above is applied to the avatar by means of texture mapping or the like, a more three-dimensional simulation of clothes coordination may be possible. In this case, in order to map various costumes to the correct positions, it is necessary to assign positions such as shoulders, necks, waists, knees, and feet to the costumes. The information may be stored together with the image data of the unit clothes data.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an embodiment of the present invention. When the user acquires an image related to clothes as a download or download through various communication means as shown, the image data may be used as clothes unit data so that the image can be used for clothes coordination. If you decide to make it and want to use it as a background, save the image to a specific storage location and exit. If you want to extract only the desired part of the costume from the newly acquired clothes-related image and make it into the costume unit data to be used for coordination, Image editing means that can use the selection and removal of peripheral areas are manipulated so that the part except the desired clothing information is a transparent area.

Of the obtained edited clothes unit data, only the part centered on the clothes data (reduced data to be stored by discarding unnecessary deletion areas as much as possible) is extracted and stored in a specific storage area.

Then, when the user wants to dress clothes, by executing the clothes dressing means, while checking the stored background image or the clothes unit data (use various interfaces such as a specific name, thumbnails, albums, etc.) to select the desired image on the display unit Display. Then, the process of searching and selecting the background image or the clothing unit data is repeatedly displayed on the image already displayed until the desired coordination is completed.

If the images are displayed in duplicate, the shooting status and distance of each image data are different, so adjust the size of the image with the appropriate key operation to make it the appropriate size, and move the resized unit data image to the desired position. It must be possible to deploy.

When the coordination is completed by completing the above process, the corresponding image may be stored under a specific name at a specific location, so that the user may reconfirm it or may ask another person to complete the coordination.

As described above, the present invention provides a mobile communication terminal having a fashion coordination function and a coordination method using the same. The user edits clothes images acquired through various paths, selects only the desired clothes part, stores them as unit clothes information, and moves them using the same. Coordination is performed by the communication terminal itself, or the unit costumes are displayed on the newly photographed clothes image so that the user can synthesize the clothes desired by the mobile terminal alone and perform a coordination of his own pictures. By applying to the synthesized clothes to check the coordination information suitable for them, and to save it as a separate picture, the user can find the clothes she wants without regard to time, place and cost only by the function of the mobile terminal itself When own qi holds You can see the images and perform coordination of costumes that there is an effect that allows you to check whether even hang himself without looking to wear the costume yourself.

Claims (12)

Image editing means for selectively extracting only a desired clothing area from an image acquired by a user; An image database for storing the extracted clothes area as clothes unit data; And a clothes coordinating means for searching and selecting the stored clothes unit data according to a user's selection and displaying the clothes unit data on the screen. The method of claim 1, The image editing means automatically selects and removes a continuous color area close to the corresponding color when a predetermined color is selected, and removes the image of the background part except the clothes by using a color selection tool and an irregular closed curve. And a region selection tool for removing an outer region of the closed curve when surrounded. delete The method of claim 1, The clothing coordination means displays the selected clothing unit data, moves the corresponding clothing unit data to a desired position with an appropriate key input, and has a position and size adjusting tool for expanding or reducing the proportion according to a ratio. Mobile communication terminal having a. delete delete delete delete Obtaining, by the user, an image related to clothes; Selectively extracting only a desired clothes area from the acquired images and storing the extracted clothes area as clothes unit data; And searching and selecting the stored clothes unit data according to a user's selection, and displaying the clothes unit data on the screen. delete The method of claim 9, And displaying the resultant clothing unit data in duplicate and storing the resultant image as a separate image. delete

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