KR20060037999A - A mobile communication device for providing electronic cordination service and a method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a personal portable terminal provided with a coordination and a method of providing the same. More particularly, an image and a coordination item of a user are captured by using a camera module mounted on the personal portable terminal, and coordinated by using the captured image. The present invention relates to a personal mobile terminal and a method of providing the same.

The personal portable terminal according to the present invention includes a camera module mounted on the personal portable terminal to capture and input a user and a coordination item, an image storage unit storing an image of the user and the coordination item photographed through the camera module, And a coordination performing unit configured to synthesize a stored user image and the stored coordination item image to generate a coordination image, and a display unit to display the generated coordination image on a display screen of the personal portable terminal.

According to the present invention, a coordination service can be easily used by using a personal portable terminal which a user always carries without a connection of a predetermined coordination system.

Personal digital assistant, Mobile phone, Cell phone, Camera, Hair, Costume, Coordination

Description

Coordination provision terminal and a method for providing the same {A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC CORDINATION SERVICE AND A METHOD THEREOF}

1 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a personal portable terminal providing coordination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of adjusting a photographed user image according to one embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

3A and 3B illustrate an example of a coordination process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 illustrates an example of displaying a coordinated image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for providing coordination in an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: personal mobile terminal

110: camera module

120: image storage unit

130: coordination performer

140: display unit

150: image adjustment unit

The present invention relates to a personal portable terminal provided with a coordination and a method of providing the same. More particularly, an image and a coordination item of a user are photographed using a camera module mounted on the personal portable terminal, and a coordination is performed using the captured image. The present invention relates to a personal mobile terminal and a method of providing the same.

In the related art, a user who wants to use a coordination service could directly visit an offline store selling clothes to wear a desired costume or visit a beauty salon to preview a desired hair style. However, with the development of information and communication technology in modern times, users can use the coordination service through an online coordination system without going directly to an offline store.

As an example, Korean Patent Application No. 10-2000-0050293 relates to a total coordination service method using the Internet. A user can apply various coordinations directly to his or her image through an Internet site, and favorite coordination products or services. The present invention discloses a method of allowing a user to directly purchase a product through an electronic commerce method.

In addition, Korean Patent Application No. 10-2001-0005309 relates to a coordination simulation service system using a user image, and transmits its own image file photographed or scanned by a web camera to a coordination dedicated program to a user. A method of providing custom coordination is disclosed.

However, according to the conventional method as described above, in order to use the coordination service, the user has to go through a predetermined membership registration procedure and authentication procedure, and has to download a specific program for performing coordination to the user's terminal, that is, a PC. have.

In addition, if the clothes or hair shapes that the user wants to coordinate exist in the offline state, for example, if the coordination service for the clothes displayed in the offline store or the clothes worn by others is applied to the clothes or hair shapes. In order to use the coordination service for the user, the user directly photographs the clothes or the hair and transmits the photographed image to the coordination dedicated program of the user PC to receive the coordination service. Therefore, there is a problem that the user's desire to use the coordination service cannot be satisfied by a simple procedure.

Accordingly, there is an urgent need for a method in which a user can easily use a coordination service by using a personal portable terminal that the user always carries without a connection of a predetermined coordination system.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, by using a camera module mounted on a personal portable terminal to image the user's image and coordination items, it is possible to perform the coordination using the captured image. An object of the present invention is to provide a personal digital assistant and a method thereof.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a personal portable terminal that provides convenience to a user by allowing a user to directly check a desired outfit or to check whether or not it suits his or her own without needing to trim the desired hair shape.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a coordination service using only a personal portable terminal without a separate system connection.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, a personal portable terminal according to the present invention is mounted on the personal portable terminal, a camera module for capturing and inputting a user and a coordinated item, the image captured through the camera module An image storage unit for storing an image of a user and a coordination item, a coordination unit for synthesizing the stored user's image with the stored coordination item's image, and generating the coordination image, and displaying the generated coordination image on the personal mobile terminal. It includes a display unit to display on the screen.

In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, by capturing and inputting the user and the coordination item using the camera module mounted on the personal portable terminal, storing the image of the user and the coordination item captured by the camera module And generating a coordination image by synthesizing an image of the stored user and the stored coordination item, and displaying the generated coordination image on a display screen of the personal portable terminal.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail with respect to the coordination providing personal portable terminal and its providing method.

1 is a view showing the internal configuration of a personal portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the personal digital assistant 100 providing the coordination includes a camera module 110, an image storage unit 120, a coordination performer 130, and a display 140.

The camera module 110 is mounted on a personal portable terminal and photographs and inputs a user and a coordination item. The user may perform the coordination desired by the user by using the input user image and the coordination item image. The image of the user may be a full body image of the user or a partial image such as a head or a half body. The coordination item image is an image associated with a clothes or a haircut desired by the user. For example, an item of the clothes, shoes, bags or accessories displayed in an offline store, or an image of a haircut desired by the user is displayed. Indicates. In addition, the user may input one or more coordination items and photograph the user image.

The image storage unit 120 stores the image of the user image and the coordination item captured by the camera module 110. The user image and the coordination item image may be separately stored in the image storage unit 120 or may be stored together.

In addition, the image storage unit 120 may include an image adjusting unit 150 for adjusting the input image in association with the size of the display screen of the portable terminal. The image adjusting unit 150 may include a user interface for enlarging and reducing an image, and adjust the size of the input image in association with the size of the display screen of the personal mobile terminal according to a user's input through the user interface. have. Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 2, image adjustment of the captured user will be described.

2 illustrates an example of adjusting a captured user image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the image 201 captured by the camera module 110 is associated with the size of the display screen of the personal portable terminal by the image adjusting unit 150 before being stored in the image storage unit 120. The size of the image can be adjusted. That is, it is possible to reduce or enlarge and store the captured image to correspond to the size of the display screen.

In general, the central processing unit (CPU) of a personal portable terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA is relatively poor in performance compared to the central processing unit of a terminal such as a PC or a notebook. Therefore, in a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, it is difficult to perform coordination using a complex algorithm such as coordination in a conventional PC. Therefore, when adjusting the size of the image of the user and the coordination item each time the coordination is performed in a portable terminal such as a mobile phone, the computational amount of the central processing unit increases, which may cause a problem in performing normal coordination. Accordingly, in a mobile terminal having a poor performance of the central processing unit, the size of the image may be adjusted to an image size 202 of a predetermined size in association with the display screen before storing the image 201 used for the coordination in the terminal. When the coordination is performed using the adjusted image 202, the coordination may be performed only by combining with the coordination item image without adjusting the image size, thereby providing a normal coordination service in the mobile terminal.

Image adjustment by the image adjusting unit 150 may be different depending on the type of image to be stored. For example, when storing an image of the user's full body image, the entire body image may be adjusted to be displayed on the display screen of the mobile terminal, and only the image of the user's head is stored for coordination of the head shape. In this case, the head image may be adjusted to fit the display screen. In addition, the image adjusting unit 150 may also perform image adjustment on the coordination item. For example, when the user photographs an image of a shirt such as a t-shirt or a blouse, the image may be adjusted to correspond to the upper body part of the user's full body image.

The image adjustment may be performed according to a user input through a user interface for enlarging and reducing an image included in the image adjusting unit 150. That is, the user may operate the user interface (eg, the keypad of the portable terminal) to enlarge or reduce the input image to correspond to the display screen of the portable terminal.

The coordination performer 130 generates a coordination image by synthesizing the user's image stored in the image storage unit 120 and the image of the coordination item. The coordination image may be generated by superimposing an image of the stored coordination item on an image of the stored user. Hereinafter, a coordination process will be described with reference to FIGS. 3A and 3B.

3A and 3B illustrate an example of a coordination process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, FIG. 3A illustrates a user image and a coordination item image to perform coordination. As shown in FIG. 3A, in order to perform coordination, first, one of one or more user images 301 and 302 stored in the image storage unit 120 may be selected. Next, one of the coordination items 303 and 304 to be coordinated with the selected user image may be selected. For example, when the user selects the user's full body image 301 and selects the coordination item 304, coordination may be performed using the two images.

3B is a diagram illustrating a user image and a coordination item image to be coordinated. As shown in FIG. 3B, the user may perform coordination by synthesizing the selected user image 306 and the coordination item image 305. The compositing method may be a method of overlapping a user image and a coordination item. For example, the keypad portion may be manipulated to move the coordination item 305 over the user image 306 to overlap the portion. That is, when the coordination item is a top of the clothes, the coordination may be performed by overlapping the upper body part of the user image or by overlapping the lower body part of the user image.

In addition, the user may coordinate with one user image using a plurality of coordination items. For example, when a user wants to coordinate a T-shirt, a skirt, and a bag using a user's whole body image, the user may coordinate using all three coordination items. However, only one coordination may be performed at the same time on the same kind of coordination items. That is, when the user attempts to coordinate the skirt and the pants among the coordination items at the same time, the coordination may not be performed.

The display unit 140 displays the coordination image generated by the coordination unit 130 on the display screen of the personal portable terminal. When the user completes the coordination, the performed coordination image may be displayed, and the coordination image may be an image in which the user's whole body image and the coordination item image are overlapped. Hereinafter, the display of the coordination image will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying a coordinated image according to one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, when the user completes the coordination, the completed coordination image 404 is displayed on the display screen of the user's personal portable terminal, and the coordination image is stored in accordance with the user's selection. Can be stored in the means. The user can check the coordinated image and check in advance before purchasing his or her desired clothes, bags, shoes, accessories, etc., or try the head shape that he or she wants to easily select a coordination item suitable for him.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for providing coordination in an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step S501, a user and a coordination item are captured by using a camera module mounted on a personal portable terminal. The coordination item may be an image associated with a clothes or a hair shape desired by a user.

In step S502, an image of the user and the coordination item captured by the camera module is stored. The storing of the image may include storing the input user image and the coordination item image in association with the size of the display screen of the personal portable terminal. That is, the size of the captured image may be adjusted and then stored. The adjustment of the image size may be performed according to a user's input through a user interface.

In operation S503, a coordination image is generated by synthesizing the stored user's image and the stored coordination item's image. The coordination image may be generated by overlapping the stored user image and the coordination item.

Finally, in step S504, the generated coordination image is displayed on the display screen of the personal portable terminal. The user may use the displayed coordination image to check whether the coordination item is suitable for him.

The coordination provision terminal and its provision method according to the present invention can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention. While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a personal portable terminal and a method for capturing an image and a coordination item of a user using a camera module mounted on the personal portable terminal and performing coordination using the captured image. have.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a personal portable terminal and a method for providing a convenience to a user by allowing a user to directly check a suit of a desired costume or to check whether the user is suited to the user without having to adjust the desired hair shape. .

In addition, according to the present invention, a coordination service may be provided using only a personal portable terminal without a separate system connection.

Claims (8)

In a personal portable terminal for providing a coordination service to a user, A camera module mounted on the personal portable terminal to capture and input a user and a coordination item; An image storage unit for storing images of the user and the coordination item photographed through the camera module; A coordination performer configured to synthesize the stored user's image and the stored coordination item's image to generate a coordination image; And A display unit for displaying the generated coordination image on the display screen of the personal mobile terminal Personal portable terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The image storage unit, An image adjusting unit for adjusting the received image in association with the size of the display screen of the personal mobile terminal Personal portable terminal comprising a. The method of claim 2, The image adjusting unit includes a user interface for enlarging and reducing an image, and adjusts the size of the input image in association with the size of the display screen of the personal mobile terminal according to a user input through the user interface. Personal digital assistant. The method of claim 1, The image of the coordination item is a personal portable terminal, characterized in that the image associated with the desired clothes or hair shape. The method of claim 1, The coordination performing unit, And a coordination image by superimposing an image of the stored coordination item on the stored user's image. In the method for providing a coordination service to a user using a personal portable terminal, Capturing and inputting a user and a coordination item using a camera module mounted in the personal portable terminal; Storing an image of the user and the coordination item captured by the camera module; Generating a coordination image by synthesizing an image of the stored user and an image of the stored coordination item; And Displaying the generated coordination image on a display screen of the personal mobile terminal. Personal portable terminal comprising a. The method of claim 6, The storing of the image of the user and the coordination item photographed through the camera module, Adjusting the received image in association with the size of the display screen of the personal mobile terminal Coordination providing method comprising a. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 6.

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