KR20040079865A - A method for selling ordered furniture on internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for selling a customized furniture using the Internet is provided to decide a buyer to select the furniture by making the buyer picture/generate/upload an image file for a position to arrange the furniture, and making the buyer freely arrange the desired furniture on a background image generated from the image file. CONSTITUTION: If the buyer selects the furniture purchase, it is judged that a background image upload function is selected(S12). If the background image upload function is selected, a background image file is uploaded from the buyer(S14). The uploaded background image file is displayed on an arrangement window of a web site(S15). The furniture is arranged on the background image displayed on the arrangement window through a buyer PC(S16). If the furniture arrangement is completed, the price of the selected furniture is calculated/displayed(S18).

Description

A METHOD FOR SELLING ORDERED FURNITURE ON INTERNET}

The present invention relates to a method for selling or purchasing furniture on the Internet. More specifically, after the buyer directly photographs a location where the furniture to be placed is placed and generates an image file (hereinafter referred to as a background image), A method of selling customized furniture using the Internet, which is uploaded to a window of a predetermined furniture sales web site, allows the user to freely arrange and view his / her own desired furniture and superimpose it on the background image. will be.

Conventionally, a number of technologies have been disclosed in the article selling and purchasing method through the Internet.

In particular, as an example of furniture, a cyber space web site is set up to sell furniture. The web site places various kinds of furniture in an image state so that buyers can view it and select the desired furniture. When the purchase was decided, the general sales or purchase method of delivering them was all.

Therefore, the buyer who receives the actual product purchased in this way will place the purchased furniture in the living room, kitchen or room.

The problem is that you often feel that the furniture you have visually checked on your PC monitor has chosen and arrived at your home, and that it does not match your home structure or background environment (such as the color of the wallpaper).

If you buy a relatively expensive furniture and put it in the house, if the furniture and the atmosphere of the house is not harmonious, the buyer is deeply distressed, and the situation that leads to return continues.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to directly photograph the location where the furniture to be purchased by the buyer to create an image file (hereinafter referred to as a 'background image'), and then predetermined It is uploaded to the window of the furniture sales web site of the website, and it is possible to freely arrange it by selecting the desired furniture and superimposing it on the background image. Is in.

1 is a hardware configuration to which the sales method of the customized furniture using the present invention is applied,

2 is a control flowchart of a method of selling customized furniture using the Internet according to the present invention;

3 is a block diagram of a furniture arrangement related web on the web according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a screen configuration diagram illustrating a state in which the furniture is dragged to its background image by using a mouse in FIG. 3.

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100: furniture sales server 200: buyer PC

DB: Database

The present invention for achieving the object comprises a database for storing the image file of the furniture products, information data of the subscription member, etc., the furniture sales server for selling furniture on the web, and connected to the furniture sales server, It includes an unspecified number of buyer PCs that can view information and sales information about various furnitures provided by the furniture sales server and make purchases as needed, and the buyer uses the PC to visit the shopping mall website of the furniture sales server. A process of accessing, a process of performing a member authentication by a buyer accessing a website of the furniture selling server, and a process of purchasing furniture by a buyer at a shopping mall page of the website and receiving the purchased furniture. In the sales method using the Internet,

Determining whether to select a background image upload function when purchasing furniture;

Uploading a background image file uploaded by a buyer if a background image upload is selected in the selection determination process of the background image upload;

Outputting (displaying) the uploaded background image file in a layout window of a website;

A process of arranging furniture on a background image displayed on the placement window through the purchaser PC; And

If it is determined that the furniture arrangement is completed, a process of calculating and displaying the price of the selected furniture by the buyer; It was to include more.

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

1 is a hardware configuration to which the sales method of customized furniture using the present invention is applied.

As shown, the furniture sales server 100 is a web site that specializes in selling furniture on the web. The server sells predetermined furniture connected to the Internet (INTERNET) and sells customized furniture using the Internet according to the present invention. Hardware that provides a way.

In addition, the furniture sales server 100 stores image files of various furnitures, information data of members joining their web sites, and the like in a database DB provided therein.

On the other hand, the buyer is connected to the furniture sales server 100 using his PC (200), to view the information and sales information for the various furniture provided by the furniture sales server 100 and to make a purchase as needed There are many unspecified things that can be done.

In the general method of commerce on the Internet configured as described above,

The furniture sales server 100 to which the present invention is applied further includes a new window (web page) for selling customized furniture, in addition to general sales methods such as ordering, selection, price calculation, and delivery.

Figure 3 is a furniture layout related screen on the web according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown.

This is a new web page according to the sales method of the customized furniture, the selection window 310 to select the furniture largely, the layout window 320 to overlay and arrange the furniture on the actual background image, and to select the color of the selected furniture It includes a color selection window 330, and the position selection window 340 for changing (adjusting) the arrangement position (angle) of the selected furniture.

The selection window 310 divides the type of furniture 311 into several colonies, living furniture used in the living room (eg, pawls, TV bases, cabinets, etc.), kitchen furniture used in the kitchen (eg, sinks). , Cupboards, etc.), and each furniture is configured in the form of a small image of the actual product, and the purchaser may select or move it by using a cursor such as a mouse.

The placement window 320 is a window displaying a place where furniture is to be placed by the buyer in the picture frame 321 as the background image 322.

Therefore, the buyer directly photographs the place where the furniture to be purchased is placed, that is, kitchen utensils, kitchen, and living room items, if the living room is photographed directly (using a digital camera), the background image file photographed therein of the furniture selling server 100 By uploading to a website, his living room or kitchen picture is displayed in the photo frame 321, which is a real space.

The color selection window 330 is composed of a plurality of color units 331 to allow the buyer to select the color of the furniture to purchase.

The position selection window 340 is a window to select the position (angle) of the furniture 311 provided in the selection window 310, the front view selection unit for displaying the furniture 311 in a front view ( 341, a right perspective view selection unit 342 for displaying the furniture 311 in a perspective view seen from the right side, and a left perspective view selection unit 343 for displaying the furniture 311 in a perspective view viewed from the left side. do.

Here, only three positions (angles) are limited, but if necessary, various angles or sizes may be further adjusted.

The reason for changing the position (and size) of the furniture in this way is that the angle (position) or size is different according to the position where the background image photographed by the buyer is photographed.

4 shows a screen in which a buyer selects furniture to purchase and places it on his background image.

As shown, the purchaser selects and selects the furniture 311 listed in the selection window 310 by using a mouse drag and superimposes it on the background image 322. At this time, through the selected furniture placed in his living room, it is possible to select the optimal furniture by arranging a very practical harmony, that is, the furniture (color, size, etc.) that best matches the living room of his house.

2 is a control flowchart of a selling method of customized furniture using the Internet according to the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of selling customized furniture using the Internet includes a process of a buyer connecting to a shopping mall web site of a furniture selling server 100 using his PC 200, and the furniture selling server 100. A process of performing a member authentication by a purchaser accessing a web site (S11), a process of determining whether a purchaser selects a furniture purchase on a shopping mall page of the web site (S12), and a process of determining whether the furniture is purchased In step S12, if the purchase of the furniture is not selected, if the purchase of furniture is selected, the process of determining whether the background image upload function is selected is selected (S13), and the background image is selected in the selection determination process of the background image upload (S13). If so, the process of uploading the background image file uploaded by the buyer (S14), the process of outputting (displaying) the uploaded background image file on the layout window 320 of the website (S15), The process of arranging furniture by the buyer looking at the screen provided by the web site (S16), the process of determining whether the furniture arrangement is completed (S17), and if it is determined that the furniture arrangement is completed, the price of the furniture selected by the buyer Calculating and displaying the same, and if it is not selected to upload the background image in the background image upload selection process (S13), performing a general purchase (S19), and whether the selection of the general purchase is completed. When the selection is completed in the determination step (S20) and the determination step (S20), the process proceeds to the price calculation and display process (S18), and then the process of determining whether the purchaser has decided to purchase (S22), and the determination process ( If the purchase is determined in S22) is configured to include a delivery step (S23).

The furniture arrangement process (S16), as described above, the actual placement and viewing of the furniture selected by the buyer himself on the background image displayed on the arrangement window 320 (S16a), the selected arrangement of furniture Changing color (S16b) and selecting (adjusting) the position (angle) of the selected furniture (S16c) is further included.

The general selection process S19 is an example of a case in which the buyer fails to upload his or her background image, and is the same as a general purchase. The general method of purchasing goods is already well known and will not be described in detail.

The delivery process (S23) is also one of the well-known methods, for example, includes a series of processes to deliver the goods on the desired day by querying the delivery date, such as the delivery address of the member acquired at the time of membership registration .

The overall operation of the method of selling customized furniture using the Internet according to the present invention configured as described above will be described below.

First, the purchaser accesses the homepage of the furniture sales server 100 by using his PC 200 or the like, and in particular, if he is willing to purchase furniture, he or she registers as a member through a predetermined procedure. This completes the authentication as a member to the web site of the furniture sales server 100. At this time, the information (shipping address, etc.) of the buyer registered as a member is stored in the database (S10, S11).

Then, after the purchaser moves to the purchase related page provided on the web page to purchase the furniture, it is determined whether or not the background image upload function provided by the present invention is selected as part of the purchase method (S12, S13).

Here, if the buyer did not use the background image upload function proceeds to the normal purchase operation routine (S19, S20), and if the buyer has selected the background image upload function uploads the background image file uploaded by the buyer. (S14)

When the upload of the background image file uploaded by the buyer is completed, the furniture sales server 100 outputs the background image file to be displayed in the picture frame 321 of the layout window 320 of the web page of FIG. 3 (S15).

Therefore, the buyer drags the desired furniture with the mouse through the selection window 310 provided at the top of the web page, overlays it on his background image, and selects the color part 331 of the color selection window 330 ( Click) to change the color of the selected furniture, or to change the position of the furniture arranged using the position selection window 340. When the furniture arrangement is completed and the buyer clicks the completion button 350, the furniture sales server 100 determines that the purchaser has completed the furniture arrangement and selection. (S16, S17)

When the furniture selection is completed as described above, the furniture sales server 100 recognizes the number and type of furniture selected by the buyer, calculates the total purchase price of the selected furniture and displays it on the screen at the same time.

Here, after the general selection and selection completion processes S19 and S20, the sum of the selected furniture is displayed.

Therefore, when the buyer determines the purchase after confirming the displayed price, the furniture sales server 100 performs a delivery process, which performs a series of processes informing the buyer of the delivery date, the delivery method, etc. (S22, S23)

Through this process, the buyer receives the furniture of his choice later.

As described above, according to the present invention, the buyer directly photographs a location where the furniture to be placed is generated, generates an image file, uploads the image file to a window of a predetermined furniture sales website, and selects the desired furniture to the background image. You can freely place them in a nested view and decide which furniture to buy,

It is effective in excluding the problem that the selected furniture arrives at their own home by looking at the PC monitor and does not match well with the structure of the home or the background environment (such as the color of the wallpaper).

In addition, the present invention has the effect that can cause a great interest in the purchase by placing the furniture around in the picture of his actual home on the web.

Claims (4)

And a database for storing image files of furniture products, information data of registered members, and the like, and a furniture sales server for selling furniture on the web, and a furniture sales server for accessing the furniture sales server. Includes a number of unspecified buyer PCs that can view information and sales information and make purchases as needed. The purchaser accesses the shopping mall web site of the furniture selling server using a PC, the purchaser accessing the web site of the furniture selling server performs member authentication, and the buyer buys the furniture on the shopping mall page of the web site. In the selling method using the Internet including the process of performing a purchase, and receiving the purchased furniture, Determining whether to select a background image upload function when purchasing furniture; Uploading a background image file uploaded by a buyer if a background image upload is selected in the selection determination process of the background image upload; Outputting (displaying) the uploaded background image file in a layout window of a website; A process of arranging furniture on a background image displayed on the placement window through the purchaser PC; And If it is determined that the furniture arrangement is completed, the buyer calculates the price of the selected furniture and displays the same; further comprising the step of selling the customized furniture using the Internet, characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 1, The furniture arranging process includes the steps of actually arranging the furniture selected by the buyer on the background image displayed in the layout window by dragging the mouse, changing the color of the furniture selected and arranged, and the position of the selected furniture (angle). Method of selling customized furniture using the Internet, characterized in that the step consisting of selecting (adjusting). The method of claim 1, The web page according to the sales method of the customized furniture includes a selection window for selecting furniture, an arrangement window for overlaying and placing furniture on an actual background image, a color selection window for selecting a color of the selected furniture, and an arrangement position of the selected furniture (angle). Method of selling customized furniture using the Internet, characterized in that it comprises a position selection window for different (adjustable). The method of claim 3, wherein The position selection window includes a front view selection unit for displaying the furniture in a front view, a right perspective view selection unit for displaying the furniture in a perspective view from the right, and a left perspective view for displaying the furniture in a perspective view from the left. Method of selling customized furniture using the Internet, characterized in that the selection unit.