Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
  • G03B21/00—Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor
  • G03B21/54—Accessories
  • G03B21/56—Projection screens
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
  • G03B15/00—Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
  • A47F7/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials
  • A47F7/19—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for garments
  • A47F2007/195—Virtual display of clothes on the wearer by means of a mirror, screen or the like

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method and a device allowing the fitting of clothing and accessories worn by a customer.
• the invention relates to the equipment of distribution signs in the textile sector and other applications.
• the sale of clothing product or fashion accessories generates a need for fitting on the part of the customer. This need stems from the nature of the product, which must correspond on several points with the client's physique.
• the order of this fitting includes a first correspondence with the general appearance of the product worn, and a second research by the client relates to aspects of detail. The latter are most often attached to a concordance between different elements, for example the top and the bottom, and their justification in terms of shape and colors.
• the fitting mirror present in all the sales areas of this type of product makes it possible to grasp its inverted image from the front, and to see part of its appearance seen from the back.
• the mirror forces the user to constantly look through to obtain his image, which does not allow a natural representation of the physiognomy of the customer wearing the product to be obtained.
• a set of reflections on several mirrors can be carried out, but the size of the reflected image reduces with the positioning distances.
• the details of the product worn are neither highlighted nor isolated from the whole.
• Several solutions have been recommended using video means to bring innovation to the fitting of clothing. It is a cabin with two cameras to allow viewing from the back at the same time as viewing from the front of the entire client.
• the invention provides a device for trying on clothing and fashion accessories worn by a client by viewing on a video screen, characterized in that it comprises at least one video screen, a camera and at least one electronic card including capture means for capturing video images coming from said camera, cutting means for cutting said captured video images into several zones corresponding to several angles of overall and detailed view of said captured video images, enlarging means for enlarging at least one of said areas of said captured video images, and broadcasting means for diffusing said captured video images in different windows on said at least one screen, each of said windows comprising a specific angle of view corresponding to one of said areas of captured video images.
• said at least one electronic card comprises recording means for recording a sequence of captured video images and reading means for reading said sequence of images.
• a gesture or movement control interface can be used by the client in front of said camera to trigger the recording or playback of a sequence of video images.
• said at least one electronic card comprises detection means for detecting a difference in potential or light level in at least one control detection zone gestures located in said captured images.
• the device comprises at least one photo-resistance independent of the camera to detect a difference in potential or light level in at least one gesture control detection zone located in the detection field of said at least one photo-resistance.
• said at least one electronic card comprises inlay means for embedding at least one graphic symbol in one of said zones of the images broadcast on said at least one screen, said image zones making it possible to locate said command detection zone. gestures in the field of said camera or said photo-resistance.
• said inlay means are capable of modifying said at least one graphic symbol in overlay to indicate the taking into account of a recording or reading command and its progress over time.
• two pressure sensors are arranged on the ground and usable by the customer in front of said camera to trigger the recording or the reading of a sequence of video images.
• said at least one electronic card comprises an output interface for transmitting the sequence of captured video images or a photographic extract thereof to an output device.
• said output interface is connected to a printer for printing said photographic extract or to a telecommunications network for sending said extract or said sequence to a remote terminal.
• said broadcasting means are capable of broadcasting live the area of the images corresponding to at least one of said windows.
• said broadcasting means are capable of simultaneously broadcasting the area of images corresponding to at least one of said live windows and the area of images corresponding to at least one other of said delayed windows by reading a sequence of recorded images.
• said at least one electronic card comprises delay means for applying a predetermined time delay between an area of the images broadcast in one of said windows and an area of images broadcast in another of said windows. Such time delay can be applied during a live broadcast and / or when playing a recorded sequence.
• two screens are superimposed and oriented parallel, for example in the height direction, said camera being disposed between said screens.
• the camera is carried by a transparent support arranged in front of said at least one screen.
• the lens of said camera is oriented substantially perpendicular to the surface of said at least one screen.
• an adjustment device is provided for fine adjustment of this orientation.
• An orientation perpendicular to the screen may be appropriate in the case of a screen arranged perpendicular to the ground and therefore perfectly parallel to the silhouette or to the face of the user. If the screen is slightly tilted relative to the vertical, the orientation of the camera perpendicular to the screen is not necessarily the best.
• said camera is a fixed focal length camera, said device comprising at least one location visually delimited on the ground to invite the user to an optimal position in front of said camera.
• the constituent elements of the device, including the camera, said at least one screen and said at least one electronic card are placed on a stable common support.
• said electronic card is programmed by means of a display program comprising data which define said image areas to be cut out and the windows in which said image areas are to be broadcast.
• said display program comprises data defining at least one time offset to be applied between two windows during the broadcasting of said images.
• a reading device is provided capable of cooperating with a recording medium on which said display program has been recorded in order to load said display program from said recording medium into said electronic card.
• the invention also provides a method of trying on clothes or accessories worn by a person by viewing on a video screen, characterized in that it comprises the steps consisting in: capturing video images of said person with a camera, cutting out said video images captured in several zones corresponding to several angles of overall and detailed view of said captured video images, enlarging at least one of said zones of said captured video images, broadcasting said captured video images in different windows on said at least one screen, each of said windows comprising a specific angle of view corresponding to one of said areas of captured video images.
• FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a fitting device according to a first embodiment in use
• - Figure 2 is a front view of the screens of the device of the Figure 1
• - Figure 3 combines two perspective views of the device of Figure 1 in two stages of operation> of the gesture control interface
• - Figure 4 is a diagram showing a video image and areas cut out therein Ci
• - Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 2 showing the display rendered using another display program
• - Figures 6 and 7 are overall perspective views of two other modes for making the fitting device according to the invention.
• the invention according to a first embodiment, relates to a device for trying on clothes and fashion accessories worn by viewing, recording and playing video from several angles of overall and detailed view of the client by a single camera 2.
• the triggering of the recording and playback commands is done by the customer's gestures or movements in front of the device.
• This device allowing the fitting of fashion clothes and accessories worn by a customer by viewing on a video screen is characterized in that it comprises several angles of overall and detailed view, in that it comprises recording and playback of a sequence according to the same shooting criteria, and in that it includes a gesture or movement control interface usable by the client in front of the device.
• one to two screens 1 are superimposed and oriented in the height direction.
• a camera 2 with fixed focal length is arranged between the screens and the objective of which is oriented perpendicular to the surface of the screens.
• a set of electronic cards process the capture, distribution, enlargement, cutting, replication, recording and analysis of video images coming from the camera.
• one of the electronic cards detects a difference in potential or light level on the image captured by the camera 2.
• the detection of a difference in potential or light level can also come from independent photo resistors of the camera, not shown.
• one of the zones on one of the screens makes it possible to locate in the space which faces the invention the zone for detecting gestural commands, and displays two graphic symbols L and E in an overlay in order to know the handling. account of a recording or playback sequence and its progress over time.
• the captured video sequence can give rise to the edition on a printer of a photographic extract and to the sending of this extract or of the complete sequence on a telecommunications network for reading on an appropriate terminal.
• the device as shown in Figure 1 consists of one to two screens 1 superimposed and oriented in the height direction.
• the device includes a fixed focal length video camera 2.
• the screens are hung on a stable vertical support 3 placed on the ground.
• the support 3 of the screens comprises the video camera 2 turned over and arranged in the viewing axis of the screens.
• the location of the video camera 2 is advantageously located between the screens. It can also be placed above or below the screens.
• the screens and the video camera are connected to a box 4 placed at the foot of the support. This box can also be integrated inside the same support.
• the housing 4 includes an analog / digital electronic card for capturing video image, enlarging and broadcasting.
• This card incorporates an electronic component for temporary storage of captured video images.
• This card includes a programming for the embedding of a graphic in the broadcast images.
• This card allows the splitting of the captured video image into several zones of different sizes. These different areas of the captured image are grouped together in the broadcast of the final image displayed on the screens.
• This card integrates a motion detection program on the images captured by potential or level difference on the light received.
• the detection device can advantageously be replaced by two photoresistors connected to the electronic card. These photoresistors will be placed in a cache in order to voluntarily limit their detection field.
• the detection device can also advantageously be replaced by two pressure sensors arranged on the ground and clearly identified to allow use according to the position of the client relative to the shooting device.
• the device thus constituted allows the user who is going to be placed in front of viewing his live video image in different windows 5 on the same screen as shown in FIG. 2.
• Each of the windows includes a specific angle of view of the captured image corresponding to a detail of the garment or accessory worn by the client.
• One of the windows has an E symbol of a certain color embedded in the video image. This window corresponds to the highest area of the captured image.
• the user must raise an arm so that a hand appears in the window comprising the symbol E embedded in the image. The passage of his hand in the image over the symbol E triggers the recording of a video sequence.
• the symbol E then changes state during this period, as shown in Figure 3.
• the customer has a limited time to present himself freely from side, front and back in front of the device during the recording sequence .
• the end of the recording sequence is characterized by the appearance, in the window comprising the symbol E, of another symbol L of different color.
• the user must raise an arm again so that his hand appears in the window now comprising the symbol L embedded in the image.
• the passage of his hand in the image over the symbol L triggers the playback of the previously recorded sequence.
• the symbol L then changes state during this period, as shown in Figure 3.
• the customer can view his fitting.
• the end of the reading sequence is characterized by the appearance in the window comprising the symbol L, of the symbol E.
• the user has the possibility of restarting a recording sequence.
• the present device can advantageously be accompanied by a visual delimitation 6 arranged on the ground in order to allow the user to position himself as best as possible in the axis of viewing the screens, and of video capture.
• the present device may include an additional electronic card allowing the extraction of a photographic image from the recorded video sequence. This photograph may give rise to an output on printed document.
• the present device may include an additional electronic card, and its control accessories, allowing the sending of a photographic extract or video sequence on any telecommunications network for reading on any terminal allowing it.
• the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and can adapt its devices according to the product to be presented and variants within the reach of the skilled person.
• the content of the windows displayed on the screens is defined by a display program executed by the electronic unit 4.
• Such a program includes the definition of the image areas to be cut, namely size and position of the area in the image, and the definition of the windows 5 where these image areas are restored, namely the size and position of the window on the screens.
• the ratio of the size of the window to the size of the image area expressed in number of pixels, implicitly defines a magnification of the image area. It is also possible to specify a magnification of each zone in the display program, which implicitly defines the size of the corresponding windows.
• the magnification can be different in the direction of the height and in the direction of the width, to obtain visual effects, for example to thin a silouhette.
• Figures 4 and 5 show, by way of example, the content of a particular display program.
• the zones 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of image 10 are rectangular frames which are specified by the positions of two opposite corners or by the position of a corner associated with a width and height.
• the zone 11 intended to encompass the upper two-thirds of a person placed standing at the intended location 6 is restored in the window 21 of the upper screen 1a.
• the zone 12 intended to include only the bust of the person is restored in the window 22, for example with a magnification equal to 2.
• Zones 14 and 15 are the gesture control zones for respectively triggering the recording of a sequence of images and its reading.
• the electronic unit 4 continuously monitors variations in light in these image areas. In the absence of a user in front of the camera, these image zones correspond to a fixed background, for example of light color. When a variation in brightness, for example a decrease, remains beyond a predetermined tripping time, the corresponding command is executed. This variation in brightness can be produced by the user by placing his hand or part of his body on this image area.
• zones 14 and 15 are rendered with image 10 in the window 20.
• a symbol 24, respectively 25 is embedded in the image at position 16 , respectively 17, in the center of the zone 15, respectively 14.
• the symbol is then modified so as to enlarge during the execution of the command.
• the taking into account of the commands can also be signaled by an audible warning.
• the display program can also specify special effects to be applied to each image area when it is rendered. Many well-known effects can thus be applied: colorization, black and white, stroboscopy, delay, insertion of a virtual background, etc.
• a predetermined delay effect is applied to window 23, for example with a value of two seconds.
• the device works by direct broadcasting of the captured images, with the possible special effects provided. Thanks to the delay effect, the user can view himself simultaneously from several points of view on the screens. For example, a person who turns in front of the camera to face it can see from the back in window 23.
• the same or other effects can be applied when playing back a recorded sequence, according to the specifications of the display program. When playing back a recorded sequence, it may be useful to continue to display a live image or image area in at least one of the windows. So the user has a greater variety of views of his person which are simultaneously presented to him. This can of course be combined with delay or other effects.
• this support 30 is a piece of furniture in the form of a closed pyramidal column with a front wall and an inclined rear wall and triangular side walls.
• This piece of furniture houses the electronic unit 4, produced for example in the form of a programmed standard microcomputer, which is provided with a drive for recording media 7, for example for floppy disks, optical discs, Flash type memory cards or other, USB keys, etc.
• the electronic unit 4 is accessed by opening a hinged hatch in the rear wall of the support 30. This makes it possible to load a new display program using a recording medium.
• the support 30 can for example be made of transparent plastic.
• the device only reproduces live images, possibly with special effects. In this case, no additional control interface is required.
• the control interface can also take the form of two pressure-sensitive panels 31 and 32 which are connected to the housing 4 by a cable 33
• the front wall 34 of the support 30 carries the two screens 1a and 1b and the camera 2 between the two screens. It is advantageous to place the camera at eye level of the user, to minimize parallax so that the user can meet his own gaze on the screen.
• the wall 34 is slightly inclined, for example from 3 to 5 ° relative to the vertical.
• the camera lens is precisely orientable using a screw adjustment mechanism, so that a strictly horizontal position relative to the ground can be adjusted. Other orientations are also possible. A low-angle effect can thus be obtained if the camera is placed lower with the lens facing up.
• the supply and signal wiring of the screens 1a and 1b and of the camera 2 runs in a sheath 35 inside the support 30.
• the electronic unit 4 is provided with output ports which can be connected to output devices by cabling 36 or via a Bluetooth type wireless link. For example, one can provide on the support 30 a command interface making it possible to print an image on a printer located nearby (not shown) or making it possible to send an image or a sequence of images to an electronic address or else to a mobile phone.
• a control interface can also be provided on the wall 34 allowing the user to select a program from among several display programs executable by the electronic unit 4.
• the device 40 is entirely integrated in a box 41 of parallelepiped shape, the front face of which essentially consists of a liquid crystal screen 42.
• the content of the different windows 43 can be adjusted as a function of the display program.
• the housing 41 can be placed on the ground or on a stand or be fixed on a wall.
• the video camera 44 is housed in a transparent strip 45 which also carries the wiring 45 of the camera.
• the rod 46 is fixed to the screen 42 in order to place the camera 44 along the best line of sight, that is to say for example roughly in the center of the screen 42.
• the device 40 is for example mounted with the base of the screen at 60 or 80 cm above the ground.
• the fitting area can be located for example between 1 m and 3 m from the screen, depending on the focal length of the camera.
• the device 40 can be used in other applications, for example for fitting glasses to an optician.
• the fitting area is defined so that the field of vision of the camera 44 is limited to the face of the user. In this case, it is advantageous to place the camera at eye level with the user, to minimize parallax so that the user can meet his own gaze on the screen.
• the electronics integrated into the housing 41 can also comprise a recording medium reader accessible by a flap 47 on one side of the housing.
• the position of the camera must be adapted to the application and the average size of the target audience.
• the orientation of the objective is preferably perfectly perpendicular to the body of the user and to its center or perpendicular to the face of the user and to its center for facial use.
• the camera is therefore preferably placed at waist height.
• the camera is therefore preferably placed at half height of the face, for example at the level of the nose or the eyes.
• the placement area delimited on the ground corresponds to an average user size and the dimension of the interior of this area allows different users of slightly different size to place themselves and obtain the corresponding displays (in feet, size, bust etc.).
• the position of the camera relative to the screen or screens is chosen such that the user can view the screen or screens while being filmed.
• the camera is placed at the center of the screen or screens so that the user can comfortably view himself from the front as in a mirror.

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