KR101074691B1 - Apparatus and method for providing personal image in on-line interface - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to personal color consulting on-line.

The present invention comprises the steps of receiving a face image file of the customer; Cutting each part of the image file and converting the coordinates and the color corresponding to the coordinates; Determining a personal color for each pixel of the converted image file; Determining a personal image of a customer from the personal color of each pixel; And transmitting the personal image of the customer to the customer.

Therefore, the customer can receive personal image consulting without visiting personal image consultant directly. Especially, personal image consulting can be done on a program such as a server that is not a consultant. .

Personal images, color codes, online

Description

Apparatus and method for providing personal image in on-line interface

FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to personal color consulting, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for providing personal image consulting based on 4-code or 16-code online.

Personal color refers to a combination of colors found through color diagnosis. Personal color consulting allows you to find different colors and styles, just like a bar code, and its range of applications is endless.

Specifically, personal color consulting is based on the color of the individual's body, such as skin color, hair color, and eye color, using a 4-code or 16-code system, which is a scientific and systematic system. By analyzing and gathering occupations, inclinations, and lifestyles, we find a color that suits you and express a better image through appropriate color schemes.

Through personal color consulting, individuals can be positively evaluated in their interpersonal relationships by improving their image and value and establishing their identity. Personal color consulting is done through elementary checks such as skin, hair and eyes. Specifically, the basis of the personal color code diagnosis is to determine the color of the body (skin, eyes, hair, lips, etc.) inherent from the time of birth as a color chart that is the standard of diagnosis.

That is, by selecting the best color and the worst color for each customer through 4-code diagnosis or 16-code diagnosis and color suggestion accordingly, by suggesting the color and usage method suitable for the customer's code, Complement your face and face color, compensate for your blemishes such as blemishes, dark circles, fine lines, improve your confidence with your own image, make reasonable consumption, or communicate with your own color and style. You can also use a variety of color schemes with differentiated color knowledge.

The above-mentioned personal color code diagnosis can be utilized in a variety of sophisticated styles through color image training based on colors that are suitable for the user, but the time and space constraints are limited because a color consultant must be visited offline. In addition, the color consultant consults directly with the customer on a one-to-one basis.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for allowing a customer to receive personal image consulting without directly visiting a personal image consultant.

Another object of the present invention is to use the above-described personal image consulting results in an online shopping mall to make efficient product purchases.

It is still another object of the present invention to apply a personal image consulting result of a customer to an item owned by him, and to be provided with an item that best suits the situation.

The present invention to solve the above problems, the step of receiving a face image file of the customer; Cutting each part of the image file and converting the coordinates and the color corresponding to the coordinates; Determining a personal color for each pixel of the converted image file; Determining a personal image of a customer from the personal color of each pixel; And transmitting the personal image of the customer to the customer.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for receiving a facial image file of a customer; A control device for determining a personal image of the customer from the face image file; And a transmitting device for providing the personal image to the customer.

According to still another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a personal image determination service to a customer; A customer logging in to receive the personal image determination service; Through the personal image, there is provided an online personal image providing apparatus, comprising the step of purchasing a product in a shopping mall.

According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: providing a personal image and at least two item information by a customer; And providing, at the server, optimum item information suitable for the personal image among the items.

The effects of the above-described personal image consulting apparatus and method on-line according to the present invention are as follows.

First, the customer can select the makeup or clothing of the appropriate color, to complement the face shape and face color, and to compensate for their defects such as blemishes, dark circles, fine lines.

Second, you can improve your confidence with your own image, make reasonable consumption, and act as a communication with your own color and style.

Third, customers can receive personal image consulting without visiting personal image consultant directly. In particular, personal image consulting can be done on a program such as a server other than a consultant. .

Fourth, it is possible to efficiently purchase products by using the results of personal image consulting in an online shopping mall.

Fifth, the customer may apply his or her personal image consulting result to the item owned by him, and may be provided with the most suitable item according to the situation.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention that can specifically realize the above object will be described. The same components as in the prior art are given the same names and the same reference numerals for convenience of description, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a color code consulting method according to the present invention. Hereinafter, an embodiment of a color code consulting method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

First, the customer is provided with a facial image file (S100). Here, the image file is a photograph including the customer's face, and the entire face must be taken in color from the front in a bald state. Moreover, it is preferable that it is a photograph taken with glasses removed. The file format is sufficient if the file is normally used, such as a JPG file. The provision of the image file is preferably made by wired or wireless communication on-line, but may also be made by transferring the memory in which the image file is stored.

Subsequently, the server provided with the image file cuts each part of the image file and converts each part of the image file into coordinates and colors corresponding to the coordinates (S110). The coordinate setting may be any coordinate system such as a rectangular coordinate system. In order to define a specific pixel and to specify a specific color corresponding to each pixel. Here, the server receives the image file through a wired or wireless communication method, or receives the image file through a memory in which the image file is stored, as described above, and stores the image file in a server or a personal computer (PC), and then performs a conversion operation. do.

An embodiment of the conversion operation will be described in detail as follows.

First, each part of the image file is cut. In other words, if the size of the image file is larger than necessary, it may be difficult to perform a task on the server or the PC, and only a part of the image file may be difficult to determine the color code. As an example, a color photograph composed of 500 * 500 pixels may be sufficient for color code determination.

That is, in the case of receiving an image file of a size exceeding the capacity required by the server, the forced size reduction is performed.

As shown in FIG. 2A, if only removing portions other than the face is sufficient, the remaining portions are cut to reduce the size. However, when the number of pixels corresponding to the face is too large, it is reduced using another method.

The reduction of the number of pixels may use a known method, and in the present embodiment, a method of combining one pixel with surrounding pixels is used. That is, as illustrated in FIG. 2B, eight pixels b, c, d, e, f, g, h, and i are adjacent to one pixel a. At this time, tones of a total of nine pixels are averaged and one tone is determined by considering the whole as one pixel a '. Here, in the case of 4-Code, the tone is classified into spring (S), summer (SM), autumn (F), and winter (Winter). A detailed tone determination method will be described later. In the process of converting the tones of nine pixels into the tones of one pixel, in this embodiment, the tone of the largest number of tones of nine pixels is determined as the tone of one new pixel a '. .

As described above, as illustrated in FIG. 2B, each of the nine pixels is reduced to one pixel a ′, thereby forcibly reducing the file size. If a file of a sufficiently small size is not obtained even after forcibly reducing the size by the above-described method, the file size can be repeatedly reduced.

The coordinate of each pixel corrected through the above-described method is determined, and the tone for the coordinate is determined. That is, one tone of S (spring), SM (summer), F (fall), and W (winter) is determined for each pixel of 500 * 500 size. Normally, the tone is determined through the determination of the color, where the color is determined by the color, brightness, and saturation, but in this embodiment, the brightness and the color alone can be determined, which is enough to judge the personal image consulting. Because. Here, the color refers to characteristics distinguished from each other by names such as red, blue, and green. In addition, brightness refers to the degree of brightness of the color of the object or the color of light, also called advertising. In the Munsell table color system, white is 10 for brightness, black is 0, and the gray level between them is divided into 10 The brightness of all colors, including colored ones, is numbered one after another and determined. In addition, saturation is one of the three attributes of color, which means the clarity of color.

Subsequently, the personal color of the customer is determined through the image file converted by the above-described method (S120). The judging method of the personal color will be described in detail as follows.

First, the tone is determined for each pixel defined by the coordinates. After the step of merging each pixel by the above-described method, the tone determined for the pixel merged in the step is defined as the tone of each pixel. Then, the tones of each pixel are added together, and the most tones become the personal color most suitable for the customer. Generally, color is judged as R (red), G (green), B (blue) value in offline mode, but H (hue), S (saturation), V (value) (recognized by machine or other device) in server. Judges).

In this case, the tone determination of each pixel corresponding to the image file of the face may be determined by being divided into skin, eyes, and hair. At this time, the color of the eyebrows is preferably determined with the hair.

First, the skin is judged on the basis of yellow, neutral and pink. Specifically, it is determined that spring has the most light flesh, fall has the most dark flesh, summer has the most bright pink, and winter has the most dark pink.

Then, the tone of the hair is judged. Here, the hair is judged to be divided into light gray silver spring with yellow light, dark brown light with yellow light, autumn gray with gray light gray, and winter black with blue light. In the above-described color determination, when there is no exact match, the determination is made as the most similar color. In addition, in the case of hair, it is desirable for a customer who has been dyed to consult a personal color in a dyed state, and a customer who wants a hair color different from the present time consults a personal color accordingly.

Then, the tone of the pupil is judged. Here, the eyes are judged to be spring if yellowish light gray, autumn if dark brown, summer if light brown blue, and winter if black. That is, the tone determination described above is made by determining the hue and saturation of each pixel of the image file.

At this time, the tone of the hair and the tone of the pupil may be replaced by a questionnaire to be described later.

Through the above process, the tone for each pixel in the image is determined. In this embodiment, the color code is set in the 4-code system, and the color code of S-code (Spring), SM-code (Summer), F-code (Autumn) and W-code (Winter) for each pixel. The value is set, but the color code can be determined by the 16-code system. Specifically, the largest number of tones of the tones of each pixel in the image file is the customer's personal color.

And skin is the most important criterion in personal color consulting. Therefore, it is desirable to weight the skin, hair and eyes with a specific gravity of 2: 1 to 1, respectively.

Subsequently, the personal image of the tuner is determined from the personal color of the customer described above (S130), and the personal image is transmitted to the customer (S140).

Then, the customer checks his or her own color code, selects his best color and worst color through the color suggestion based on 4-code diagnosis, and complements the face type and face color, blemishes, dark circles, fine lines, etc. You can make up for your shortcomings, or make up your own makeup and clothing style with your own color and style.

Here, the personal image proposed to the customer and its characteristics are as follows.

Spring (S-CODE) is a popular customer because the customer, who has been consulted for personal color, is alive, cute and curious and lively social. Matching colors are based on yellow and are the colors of a bright and clear image. The image is transparent, clean, bright and light with high brightness and saturation. Examples include pitch pink, yellow, orange, apple green, aqua blue, and camel. Keywords include cute, bright, warm, cute, lively, passionate, youthful, cheerful, and cheerful. The texture is soft, smooth, light and tight, so that cotton, organza and mohair are a good match. The matching pattern is small and has cute patterns, floral patterns and narrow checks. The matching accessories include shiny gold, beads and colored glass, and are small in size. Lastly, make-up is a bright, transparent, soft and lively makeup. It is good to produce light and clean with bright and vivid images.

Customers who have been consulted for personal color in the summer (SM-CODE) have a clear and feminine image, soft charisma and intelligent image. The matching colors are soft colors with pastel colors based on white and blue. These colors are high in brightness and low in saturation, giving an intelligent and luxurious look, such as rose pink, gray, sky blue, mint green, lavender, and soft white. Keywords include soft, mild, feminine, elegance, dreamy, clean, simple, romantic, and delicate. Matching textures include soft luster, light and silky silky linens, see-through and lace. The matching patterns include simplicity, curved and natural feel, soft bleeding, gradation, and the matching accessories include silver, Swarovski, pearls and amethyst. Make-up goes well with natural makeup with clean, transparent skin expression and soft color.

The customer who has been consulted for personal color in the autumn (F-CODE) has a sense of embarrassment and maturity and has a careful and trustworthy image. The matching colors are yellow and yellow mixed with warm colors, and are distinguished by warm colors. Examples include mustard, olive green, moss green, coffee brown, khaki, orange red, gold and the like. Keywords include: trusty, calm, antique, mature, mature, deep, classic, ethnic, gorgeous. The matching textures are coarse, rough, thick, and heavy, with fur, tweed, hemp, and sweaters. The matching pattern is paisley, abstract design, large-scale design with nature motif, and accessories are matt Gold, natural materials, not too small, ivory, garnet and amber. Lastly, make-up looks like a color that penetrates the skin, and it has a natural but calm depth of makeup, or a sexy make-up with dark colors.

Customers who have consulted personal color for the winter (W-CODE) are urban, cool and charismatic, simple and refined, and intense and sporty images. Matching colors are blue, black, and white mixed with the ground color and are classified as cold colors. There is a strong contrast between brightness and saturation, and it is a sophisticated and urban color. Carmine, cobalt blue, magenta, icy blue, baby pink, viridian, burgundy, wine, and silver. Keywords include urban, charismatic, refined, cool, intense, sharp, dynamic, sporty, and modern. Matching textures include glossy enamel, satin, silk, leather and fur (fur). Matching patterns include stripes, contrasting straight patterns, abstract and simple designs. Suitable accessories include silver, diamonds, sapphires and rubies. And make-up that suits is concise and simple one point makeup.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a face image file of a customer is provided and additionally a questionnaire answer is provided from the customer. That is, the customer may create and provide an answer to the questionnaire regarding his or her face color, face shape, eyes, hair color, and the like. The color code should be determined according to the face of each individual, but the purpose is to reflect this because each individual's taste may be different from each other.

In addition to the above-described questionnaire, the customer's disposition and needs may be grasped from the customer's preferred color, style, image, brand, and lifestyle.

In addition, surveys can be provided to customers to understand their tastes. In other words, the personal color of each individual may be determined by subjective factors such as occupation, taste, and personality in addition to the objective elements such as appearance, and thus identify the taste of the customer through a survey.

Here, the survey may be performed on various items for grasping the taste of the customer, and in the present embodiment, information about an image desired by the customer is obtained in the first personal color consulting. That is, it obtains information about the image that the customer prefers such as cuteness, intellectuality, and maturity.

Second, obtain data on the color each individual prefers. That is, in the second questionnaire, each item corresponds to a preference item for spring, second for summer, third for fall, and fourth for winter. . Therefore, the preference tendency of the customer can be obtained from the items checked by the customer most in the second survey.

Third, in the third questionnaire, color information corresponding to spring, summer, autumn, and winter is provided, respectively, to obtain color information preferred by the customer. That is, the second questionnaire obtains information on the image preferred by the customer, and the third questionnaire obtains direct information on the color preferred by the customer.

Fourth, to obtain information on the skin color and skin feeling of the customer. Here, the skin color of the customer can be obtained by the above-described image file, but can also sense the feeling that the customer has about his or her appearance. Here, the customer selects A to prefer spring, B to prefer autumn, C to prefer summer, and D to prefer winter.

Fifth, information on eye color and eye impression of a customer is obtained. Here, the eye color of the customer may be obtained by the above-described image file, but may also detect and grasp a feeling that the customer has about his or her eye. Here, the customer selects A to prefer spring, B to prefer autumn, C to prefer summer, and D to prefer winter.

Sixth, the color and texture of the customer's hair can also be grasped by a questionnaire, which can be obtained by an image file as described above. Here, the customer selects A, prefers spring, selects B, chooses autumn, selects C, selects summer, and selects D, prefers winter.

In this case, the analysis of the survey result and the image file according to the above-described items may have a weight in personal color determination at a ratio of 4 to 6. Each item in the survey contributes to the same weight.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes correcting the image file received from the customer.

That is, the customer obtains his or her face image file by photographing a digital camera, a camera provided in a mobile phone, or the like, but there is a problem that even a face of the same person may be photographed differently according to the performance of the camera or the location of the camera. Therefore, the image file can be corrected in consideration of the lens, light amount and illumination at the time of photographing.

In addition, the above-described correction may correct the color of the file from the camera information included in the header of the customer's face image file. That is, depending on the type of camera can be taken a little different from the actual color, color can be corrected through the camera information.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the color code of the customer can be determined by the 16-code system.

3A is a block diagram of an embodiment of an online personal image consulting apparatus according to the present invention.

The personal image consulting providing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a receiving apparatus 300, a control apparatus 310, and a transmitting apparatus 320. Here, the receiving device 300 receives a face image file of the customer, the control device 310 determines the personal image of the customer from the face image file, and the transmitting device 320 provides the personal image to the customer. The specific operation is as described in the personal image consulting method described above.

3B is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control device 310 in detail.

Here, the control device 310 includes a database 312 having personal color information and consulting information and a personal color determination unit 314. Here, the color information is a value indicating which of 4-codes belong to each color according to the hue and saturation values, as shown in FIGS. 4A to 4D. That is, FIG. 4A shows a color corresponding to s-code, FIG. 4B shows a color belonging to sm-code, FIG. 4C shows a color belonging to f-code, and FIG. 4D shows an example of color belonging to w-code, respectively. It is. If there is no exact match, you can choose the closest color. The consulting information means colors, keywords, textures, matching patterns, accessories, and make-up as described above according to the customer's personal color (determined to be 4-code).

3C, the personal color determination unit 314 includes a size adjustment unit 314a for adjusting the size of the image file, and a color determination unit 314b for determining skin color, eye color, and hair color in the image file. ), And a color correction unit 314c and a personal image determining unit 314d.

Here, each function is as described above. That is, the size adjusting unit 314a cuts each part of the image file, thereby making a pixel of 500 * 500 size, for example. In addition, the color determination unit 314b determines the color of each pixel of the converted image file, which may be determined by comparing with the color information stored in the above-described database. In addition, the color corrector 314c may correct the image file in consideration of the lens, the amount of light and the illumination at the time of photographing in order to solve a problem in which a face of the same person may be photographed differently according to the performance of the camera or the photographing location. . Here, the color corrector 314c may correct the color of the image file by graphically showing information of pixels in the image file using histogram analysis. Here, histogram analysis is in accordance with well-known techniques. The personal image determination unit 314d then adds together the tones of each pixel to determine the most tones as the personal color / image of the customer.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the above-described personal image consulting result is utilized for purchasing items (clothing, cosmetics, etc.) of the customer.

That is, the customer is informed of the personal image determination service through the banner advertisement of the online shopping mall or the advertisement of the offline shopping mall. Then, the customer logs in to the online shopping mall or receives his / her personal image through a separate personal image providing site. At this time, the consulting method or apparatus for the specific personal image is the same as described above. The customer can purchase an item in an online or offline shopping mall with his / her own personalized image. As an example, a person having a personal image with an s-code may select clothing, cosmetics, accessories, and the like that are appropriate. In this embodiment, the shopping mall may expect an effect of attracting customers by providing a part of consulting costs.

According to still another embodiment of the present invention, the customer can select clothes, cosmetics, accessories, etc. when going out through his personal image consulting result.

That is, before going out, the customer may provide his / her personal image and at least two items (clothing, accessories, cosmetics, etc.) to the online server / site. The server provides the optimal item information suitable for the personal image among the items. At this time, the customer can make-up by wearing or selecting the provided item.

At this time, in addition to the personal image of his own, weather information, information about the place to go out and meeting characteristics, etc. may also be provided, and thus item information may be selected.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the embodiments, but should be defined by the claims.

The online personal image consulting apparatus and method according to the present invention can be used for cosmetics or clothing coding of a customer through personal image consulting online.

1 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a color code consulting method according to the present invention;

2A and 2B are diagrams illustrating embodiments of a method of reducing a size of an image file;

3A is a block diagram of an embodiment of an online personal image consulting providing apparatus according to the present invention.

3B is a block diagram showing in detail the configuration of the control device shown in FIG. 3A;

3C is a block diagram showing in detail the configuration of the personal color determination unit shown in 3B;

4A to 4D are diagrams illustrating embodiments of colors belonging to each of 4-codes.

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300: receiving device 310: control device

320: transmitting device 312: database

314: Personal color judging section 314a: Size adjusting section

314b: color judgment section 314c: color compensation section

314d: Personal Image Determination Unit

Claims (14)

Receiving a face image file of a customer at a receiving device; Correcting the image file by considering a lens, a light amount, and an illumination of a camera in a color corrector; Cutting each part of the image file by a size adjusting unit and converting the respective parts of the image file into coordinates and colors corresponding to the coordinates; Determining a tone by a four-code system for each pixel of the converted image file by a color determination unit; Determining, by the personal image determining unit, the highest value of the tone values of each pixel as the personal image of the customer; And And transmitting the personal image of the customer to the customer in a transmitting device. The method of claim 1, And receiving information on the skin color, eyes, and hair of the customer at the receiving device. The method of claim 1, Cutting of each part of the image file, The online personal image consulting consulting method characterized in that the size of the image file is forcibly reduced. The method of claim 3, wherein Force reduction of the size of the image file, Online personal image consulting method that considers one pixel and all surrounding pixels as one pixel. The method of claim 4, wherein Force reduction of the size of the image file, And a tone of each of the one pixel and the neighboring pixels are averaged to determine the tone of the considered one pixel. The method of claim 1, And the determination of the tone for each pixel comprises determining a brightness and a color value of each pixel of the image file with a four-code system. A receiving device for receiving a facial image file of a customer; A control device for determining a personal image of the customer from the face image file; And A transmitting device for providing the personal image to the customer, The control device, A color correction unit for correcting the image file in consideration of a lens, a light amount, and illumination of a camera, a size adjusting unit for cutting each part of the image file and converting the image file into a coordinate and a color corresponding to the coordinate, and the converted image file A color judging section for determining a tone with a 4-code system for each pixel of the pixel; a personal image judging section for judging the highest value of the tone values of each pixel as the personal image of the customer; and An online personal image providing apparatus comprising a transmitting device for transmitting a personal image of a customer to the customer. The method of claim 7, wherein the control device, An online personal image providing apparatus, further comprising a database including color information and consulting information of a personal color. The method of claim 7, wherein The size adjusting unit forcibly reduces the size of the image file to cut each part of the image file, and the forced reduction of the size of the image file is regarded as one pixel and the entire pixel of one pixel and the surrounding pixels as one pixel. A personal image providing apparatus for online personal online, wherein the tone of each pixel and the surrounding pixels are averaged and determined as the tone of one pixel considered. The method of claim 7, wherein the color correction unit, Personal image providing device on-line, characterized in that for correcting the color of the image file from the camera information provided in the header of the image file. The method of claim 7, wherein the color correction unit, And a graph of information of pixels in the image file using histogram analysis to correct the color of the image file. delete delete delete

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