KR20150106987A - Method and apparatus for customization fashion sale using customer image information - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device and method for selling customized clothes using customer image information. The device includes: a product information collecting unit (110) composed of a camera unit (111) for photographing clothes, accessaries, and background information as a static image or video, and an input unit (112) for inputting the clothes, accessary brand, color, size, and price information; a database (120) stores the clothes, accessories, background information, and information on relevant clothes and accessaries, stores a store location, store telephone number, and information on a product in which the store has, and stores customer personal information, and information on favorite clothes of a customer; and a control unit (140) for controlling the database (120) to store the information, transmitting the reachable time to a store requesting a clothes search request or a guide on the closest store which has relevant clothes or accessary to a relevant store or customer terminal using a communications unit (130) by searching the database (120) in response to the clothes search request, and providing to return to the relevant store or customer terminal within set time in the requested time for providing information on the relevant clothes to a customer who cannot buy the clothes due to color or size miss by configuring a timer (141).

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selling customized clothes using customer image information,

[0001] The present invention relates to clothing sales, and more particularly, to an image display device for displaying images (image) information and body size information of a customer in a case where the design of the clothes is favorable for the clothes worn or selected by the customer, And provides the apparel information with the image information of the customer by the customer's terminal (mobile phone / smart phone, computer, etc.) and provides various information items (accessories) matching the apparel together with the store information, And a customer-customized apparel sales apparatus and method using customer image information capable of continuously introducing the product or various goods to the customer.

In order to purchase clothes at present, the customer visits the clothing store directly, selects clothing suitable for his or her own personal taste, purchases the clothing by making a purchase decision after actually wearing the clothing, 10-2006-64149 (filed on July 8, 2006), the user puts his / her own body size on the Internet shopping mall, puts the virtual self on the web (avatar), puts the avatar on the clothes, There is a way to use the Internet shopping mall to purchase and try to make it available for purchase.

The advantage of offline clothing purchasing is that it is possible to purchase accurate clothing by wearing it by visiting it directly, thereby minimizing the possibility of returning.

This means that if you look at your favorite clothes on the online shopping mall and choose the size that you think is appropriate for your size, you will have a problem that the actual returned items do not match your size, Although I can solve it, I visited the store and liked the design and color of the result, but when there was not the right size, there was a problem that it sold unnecessarily.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an image forming apparatus, By receiving the information and the body size information, the customer's terminal (mobile phone / smart phone, etc.) provides the clothing information together with the image information of the customer, and various accessories (accessories) matching the clothing are provided together with the store information And a customer-customized apparel sales apparatus and method using customer image information capable of constantly introducing the product or various products to a customer who is out of the shop.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a customer-customized apparel sales apparatus using customer image information, comprising: a camera unit for capturing clothing, accessories, and background information as still images or moving images; A goods information collecting unit configured by an input unit for inputting the goods information; Stores the brand, color, size, price information, and bar code or QR code, which are information on clothes, accessories, and background information, clothing, and accessories collected by the product information collection unit, A database storing product information and storing customer personal information and customer's favorite clothing information; Color, size, price information and barcode or QR code, which is information about clothes, accessories, and background information and corresponding clothes and props, store product information in store location, store telephone number, and store in database And transmits a guidance to the store or the customer terminal through the communication unit 130 for a time available for reaching the store where the clothing search is requested or a guide for the nearest store having the apparel or accessories, A controller provided with a timer so as to provide (return) to the shop or the customer's terminal within a predetermined time from the requested time, in order to provide information on the garment to the customer who can not purchase because the color or size does not match, And a control unit.

In order to attain the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a customized apparel sales apparatus using customer image information, comprising clothing information (brand, color, size, price, bar code) (Customer's name, customer's gender, customer's address (home, workplace, main activity area, etc.)), customer age, The customer personal information of the customer image (photograph), the customer's body size, the customer terminal information (the cell phone, the number information of the smartphone, the e-mail address), the clothing information purchased, selected or worn by the customer, Design, color, size, etc.); POS terminal of a point of sale (POS) terminal and a customer who selects or wears clothes by referring to customer information about apparel products When a new apparel of a design / color similar to the apparel is newly released If the reason for requesting the product search so as to quickly respond to the customer who matches the clothes and the customer but has not been able to purchase the product is to request the product search to provide the product to the customer who has not purchased the product due to the color or size problem A merchandise / sales matching unit comprising a merchandise / customer matching unit for driving a timer so as to provide (return) merchandise information to a customer within a set time from a requested time, and providing the merchandise to the customer's terminal after prioritizing other jobs; And a merchandise / customer information which stores clothing, an article, an image of a customer, background information as a still image or a moving picture, stores a brand, a color, a size, and price information And a collecting unit (230).

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of selling customized clothes using customer image information, comprising the steps of inputting clothing information, collecting accessories and background information, and combining clothes, accessories and background information; If the POS terminal determines that the customer visited the store and wears the garment (or selects and sells the garment), and if the POS terminal has sold the POS terminal, The method comprising the steps of: inputting and storing personal information of a customer; automatically combining clothes, accessories, and background information, which are previously combined according to customer-worn (selected) clothing information, together with customer image information, And a step of transmitting the image information of the combined product to the customer terminal together with the store information and the product identification information, .

The present invention has the following effects.

First, customers who found their own in-store stores like the design but do not like the size or the color, and leave the shop without purchasing clothing to find another store or return home. By acquiring the customer's consent, we collect images of the customers, collect body size information, and make reference to the images of the customers through the database, It can be automatically provided with the same image as that actually worn.

Second, customers who can not purchase their favorite clothes due to their size problems can quickly check the size of their clothing through the Internet and provide it with the image of the customer through the terminal (mobile phone / smart phone, computer) If you provide information such as the store name, store location, and store phone number, you can make it easier for customers to purchase, as well as for customers to buy clothes. .

Third, when providing customer image information such as a customer's choice together with clothing information selected or worn by a customer, it can help the customer to make a purchase decision, It is possible to automatically provide the image or the moving image through the database together with the corresponding props image in the state, so that it is possible to induce sales of other products including clothes.

Fourth, it is possible to reduce the time wasted when selecting small items by providing information on accessories that match clothes, and it is possible to minimize the anxieties caused by the selection of small items and improve the satisfaction, have.

Fifth, it is possible to provide background information (mountain, sea, indoor, walkway, etc.) including the image information of the customer's selected clothes and the props image information as virtual reality images, It is possible to automatically provide various product information including the product information.

Sixth, if new product is released through the customer image and body size information with the consent of the customer, it is possible to quickly provide clothing information that the customer prefers.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a customized apparel sales system using customer image information according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining a head office server of a customized apparel sales system using customer image information shown in FIG. 1. FIG.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a store server of a customized apparel sales system using customer image information shown in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a method for selling customized clothes using customer image information according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In addition, although the term used in the present invention is selected as a general term that is widely used at present, there are some terms selected arbitrarily by the applicant in a specific case. In this case, since the meaning is described in detail in the description of the relevant invention, It is to be understood that the present invention should be grasped as a meaning of a term that is not a name of the present invention. Further, in describing the embodiments, descriptions of technical contents which are well known in the technical field to which the present invention belongs and which are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. This is for the sake of clarity of the present invention without omitting the unnecessary explanation.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a customized apparel sales system using customer image information according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a customized apparel sales system using customer image information according to the present invention includes a main server 100, first to nth store servers 201, 202, and 203, and a warehouse server 300 ).

Here, the head office server 100 is a server of a company that produces clothes, and stores clothing information about clothes produced by the head office, accessory information matching with the clothing, and background information matching with the clothing to the store server 201 202, and 203, and manages clothing information and accessory information on clothing and accessories of the warehouse through the warehouse server 300.

This will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 3 attached hereto.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining a head office server of a customized apparel sales system using customer image information shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

 2, the main office server of the customized apparel sales system using the customer image information shown in FIG. 1 includes a product information collecting unit 110, a database 120, a communication unit 130, and a control unit 140 .

Here, the product information collecting unit 110 includes a camera unit 111 for photographing clothes, small items, background information (mountain, sea, river, field, indoor) as still images or moving images, And an input unit 112 for inputting an in-brand, color, size, price information, and the like. The input unit 112 may be a keyboard, a mouse, or the like. In addition, the input unit 112 may include a barcode generator and a QR code generator that barcode or QR code garment, props, background information, and brand, color, size, and price information.

The database 120 stores clothing information, accessories (accessory) information, background information, brand, color, size, price information, and bar code or QR code, which are information on the clothing and accessories, collected by the product information collecting unit 110 A merchandise information database (DB) 121 for storing merchandise information, merchandise information DB 122 for storing merchandise information provided at stores, merchandise information provided at a warehouse location, a warehouse phone number, The storage warehouse information DB 123 and the customer information such as customer name, customer gender, customer address (home, workplace, main activity area), customer age, customer image (photograph), customer body size, Number information, e-mail address, etc.), and customer information DB 124 in which clothing information purchased, selected or worn by the customer and corresponding customer's preferred clothing information (design, color, size, do.

The communication unit 130 communicates with the store server 200 and the warehousing server 300 via the Internet 400. [

The control unit 140 stores clothing, small items, and background information collected by the product information collecting unit 110 in the product information DB 120, and stores each item (clothes, small items) provided in the store and the warehouse Stores the customer information in the store information DB 122 and the warehouse DB 123 and stores the customer information transmitted through the communication unit 130 in the customer information DB 124 and stores the customer information in the customer information DB 124, Searches the goods information DB 121, the store information DB 122 and the warehouse DB 123, and informs the communication unit 130 of the time at which the requested store can be reached or the guidance of the nearest store having the apparel and / To the corresponding store or customer terminal. Here, the apparel search request is for providing information about the apparel to a customer who can not purchase the apparel because he or she likes the required design but does not match the color or size, and provides (returns) the apparel to the store within the set time from the requested time. It is preferable to drive the timer 141 so as to be able to give priority to other operations. In other words, the retrieval operation should be carried out prior to DB input operation so that the user can respond to the request immediately. In this case, the set time can be set to 1 to 10 minutes, for example, because the customer can be prompted to purchase if the customer remembers or does not deviate much from the customer's store location and gives a quick result. Of course, such a timer 141 may be provided separately, but it may be set (configured) to the control unit 140 by a program.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a store server of a customized apparel sales system using customer image information shown in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG.

3, the store server of the customized apparel sales system using the customer image information shown in FIG. 1 includes a store database (DB) 210, a store sales management device 220, a merchandise / customer information collection unit 230 And a communication unit 240.

Here, the store DB 210 stores clothing information (a brand, a color, a size, a price, a barcode, etc.) of a store, accessory information (brand, color, size, price, etc.) A customer's name, a customer's gender, a customer's address (home, workplace, main activity area, etc.), a customer age, a customer image (photograph), a customer's body Size, customer terminal information (mobile phone number, smart phone number information, e-mail address, etc.), customer's personal information such as customer's purchased, selected or worn clothing information and customer's preferred clothes information (design, color, And a customer information DB 212 constituted by the customer information DB 212. On the other hand, the customer information DB 212 of the store server 200 can be limited to customer information using the store. In other words, the main office server 100 holds customer information collected in all stores, and each of the individual store servers 201, 202, and 203 can have only customer information managed in the corresponding store.

The store sales management device 220 includes a POS terminal 221 as a point of sale (POS) terminal and a POS terminal 221 that is similar to the corresponding clothes for a customer who selects or wears clothes referring to customer information And a product / customer matching unit 222 for matching the garment and the customer when a new design / color garment is released.

The merchandise / customer matching unit 222 may also match the small items matching the clothes selected by the customer or the background information matching the clothing. In addition, the controller 210 controls the communication unit 240 to transmit the requested color or size information to the head office server 100 because the customer likes the design but does not have a favorite color or size. On the other hand, if clothing of the requested color or size is searched, the customer information that the customer intends to purchase the clothing is automatically searched in the database 210 and transmitted to the customer's terminal (mobile phone / smartphone, computer) through the communication unit 240 . The product / customer matching unit 222 may also search the product to provide the product to the customer who has failed to purchase the product due to the color or size problem, It is preferable to drive the timer 222a so as to provide (return) the product information to the customer within a predetermined time from the requested time so as to be able to be provided in priority to other jobs. In other words, search operations are performed in preference to other tasks (input tasks, etc.) in order to respond to a customer's request immediately. In this case, the set time can be set to 1 to 10 minutes, for example, because the customer can be prompted to purchase if the customer remembers or does not deviate much from the customer's store location and gives a quick result.

Of course, such a timer 222a may be provided separately, but it may also be constituted by a product / customer matching unit 222 as a program.

Also, when clothes of a design / color similar to the clothes are newly released to customers who have selected or worn clothes referring to customer information about clothing products, the clothes are matched with customers. At this time, it is also possible to match the small items matching the clothes and the background information matching the clothes. In addition, if the size of the garment to be purchased is not the same, the merchandise / customer matching unit 222 automatically searches the database 212 for the customer who has tried to purchase the garment, And controls the product information to be guided through the communication unit 240 to the customer's terminal (mobile phone / smartphone, computer).

The merchandise / customer information collection unit 230 includes a store camera unit 231 and a store input unit 232. Here, the store camera unit 231 photographs garments, props, customer images, background information (mountains, seas, rivers, fields, indoors) as still images or moving pictures, and the store input unit 232 stores the clothes, Enter information such as brand, color, size, and price information. The collected information is stored in the merchandise information store database 210. Here, the reason why the store camera unit 231 and the store input unit 232 are configured is to input information of the customer, but in addition to the information provided by the head office server 100 for the clothes or small items at the head office, So that the user can input additional information of the user. It is also particularly useful when individuals are individually operating clothing stores.

In other words, the store server of the customized apparel sales system using the customer image information shown in FIG. 3 is basically a distributor and stores clothing information, props information and background information in addition to the clothing information, You can add information, or you can use it at a private store.

In addition, if the image including the background information is provided in the form of a still image or a video after matching the product and the customer using the image of the customer, the customer does not actually wear the clothing, the props, and the background information. However, So that customers' desire to purchase can be improved.

The communication unit 240 transmits the customer information and the request information about the clothing requested by the customer to the head office server 100 or transmits the goods suitable for the customer to the customer's terminal (clothes / accessories / background information).

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a method for selling customized clothes using customer image information according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, a method of selling customized clothes using customer image information according to the present invention is a method in which clothing information is input by the product information collecting unit 110 or the goods / customer information collecting unit 230, (S100). At this time, a camera, a keyboard, a mouse and a barcode generator, and a QR code generator can be used.

Next, props and background information are collected (S110). At this time, it can be collected by using a camera, a keyboard, and a mouse.

Next, clothing, small items, and background information are combined (S120). At this time, the camera, the keyboard, and the mouse can be used in combination. The combined information is stored in the database 120 (210).

Meanwhile, the customer visits the store and wears (or selects) the clothes (S130), and determines whether the clothes have been sold (S140). This is determined by the POS terminal 220.

If the determination result is YES (S140), the POS terminal 220 performs POS processing on the sales information (S150).

However, if the determination result (S140) is not sold, it is determined whether the design has an objection to the size or color (S160). In such a case, the POS terminal 220 also inputs and judges. This can help identify future customer trends.

Next, in the store, if the customer agrees to collect customer information (S170), the customer's name, customer's gender, customer's address (home, workplace, main activity area, etc.), customer age, customer image And stores customer information such as terminal information (cell phone, number information of a smart phone, email address, etc.) (S180). In such a case, it is performed through the POS terminal 220 and the goods / customer information collection unit 230. The collected information is also transmitted to the head office server 100 and stored when the head office server 100 is connected to the store.

The control unit 140 or the product / customer matching unit 222 automatically combines clothing, small items, and background information, which are previously combined according to customer information (optional) clothing information, together with customer image information. At this time, if the customer is a purchase-failed customer, the product is searched in priority order with respect to other jobs within the set time through the timer 141 (222) (S190).

Then, the image information of the combined product is transmitted to the client terminal together with the store information and the product identification information through the communication unit (130 in the case of the agency and 240 in the individual store) (S200). At this time, the product identification information may be identification information (an identification number, a product name, etc.) of a product suitable for a customer as well as customer-worn (optional) clothing information. In this case, if the customer likes the design and does not like the size or color, he can go back to the shop and purchase the product. Especially, if the customer wants to buy the product from here and there, Can be accurately and quickly memorized.

The control unit 140 or the goods / customer matching unit 222 determines whether there is a response indicating that the product is a product of interest (S210).

(S220). If there is a response to the determination result (S210), a shop (shop location, traffic information (subway, bus number, etc.), telephone number, available time, etc.) At this time, if it is an individual store, the guidance for the individual individual store is made through the communication department.

Then, it is determined whether there is a reply to the store which can be visited (S230).

If it is determined that there is a reply to the accessible store (S230), the control unit 140 requests the corresponding store to prepare the corresponding product (S240). At this time, information about the customer (purchase history, purchase failure, customer image information, etc.) can also be sent.

In this case, the customer has the advantage of purchasing the goods immediately at the store.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it should be understood that various changes and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Obviously, the invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas which fall within the scope of equivalence by alteration, substitution, substitution, Range. In addition, it should be clarified that some configurations of the drawings are intended to explain the configuration more clearly and are provided in an exaggerated or reduced size than the actual configuration.

100: main office server 110: product information collecting section
111: main office camera unit 112: main office input unit
120: Head office database (DB) 121: Commodity information DB
122: store information DB 123: warehouse information DB
124: customer information DB 130: main office communication department
140: control unit 141: timer
200, 201, 202, 203: store server 210: store DB
211: commodity information store DB 212: customer information DB
220: store sales management device 221: POS terminal
222: merchandise / customer matching section 222a: timer
230: goods / customer information collecting unit 231: store camera unit
232: store input unit 240: store communication unit
300: Warehouse server 400: Internet

Claims (10)

A product information collecting unit 110 consisting of a camera unit 111 for photographing clothes, accessories and background information as still images or moving images, and an input unit 112 for inputting brands, colors, );
Color, size, price information, and bar code or QR code, which are information on clothes, accessories, and background information and corresponding clothes and accessories collected by the product information collecting unit 110, and stores the store location, the store telephone number, A database 120 in which product information stored in the store is stored and stores customer personal information and customer's preferred clothing information; And
Color, size, price information, and bar code or QR code, which are information on the clothing, accessories, and background information, the clothing and accessories, and stores merchandise information provided in a store location, a store telephone number, 120), searches the database 120 for the clothing search request, and transmits to the communication unit 130 a guidance of the closest store having the clothes reachable to the store requested for the clothing search or the corresponding clothing or accessories (Return) to the shop or the customer's terminal within the set time from the requested time, in order to provide the information about the clothes to the customer who can not purchase because the color or size does not match, And a controller (140) provided with a timer (141) Customized clothing sales system using the information.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the input unit (112) is at least one of a keyboard, a mouse, a barcode generator, and a QR code generator.
The method according to claim 1,
The database (120)
A product information database (DB) 121 for storing brands, colors, sizes, price information, and bar code or QR code, which are information on clothes, accessories, and background information and corresponding clothes and accessories collected by the product information collecting unit 110 )Wow,
A store information DB 122 storing store information, store phone numbers, and product information provided in stores,
A distribution warehouse information DB 123 storing product information provided in the warehouse,
Customer personal information of customer name, customer gender, customer address (home, workplace, main activity area), customer age, customer image (photograph), customer body size, customer terminal information (cell phone, smartphone number information, And a customer information DB 124 in which clothing information that the customer has purchased, selected, or worn and corresponding customer's preferred clothing information (design, color, size) is stored. Device.
(Brand, color, size, price) and background information (mountain, sea, river, field, indoor, etc.) matching the clothing, And a customer information (such as a mobile phone, a mobile phone, etc.), a customer information (mobile phone, (Design number, color number, size, etc.) of the customer's personal information of the customer, the number information of the smartphone, the e-mail address, and the clothing information purchased and selected or worn by the customer, A store database 210 comprising:
A POS terminal 221 as a point-of-sale (POS) terminal for merchandise point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and a consumer with a design / color similar to the corresponding clothes for customers who have selected or worn clothes referring to customer information The reason for requesting a product search so as to quickly respond to a customer who does not purchase the product is to match the apparel and the customer, but to search for a product to provide the product to the customer who can not purchase the product due to color or size problem A merchandise / customer matching unit 222 for providing the merchandise information to the customer after the work in priority to other jobs by driving the timer 222a so as to provide (return) the merchandise information to the customer within the set time from the requested time if requested A store sales management device 220 comprising: And
Photographing the clothing, the props, the image of the customer, the background information (mountain, sea, river, field, indoor) as a still image or a moving picture and inputting the brand, color, size, And a goods / customer information collecting unit (230) for storing the goods information in the goods information store database (210).
5. The method of claim 4,
The goods / customer information collection unit 230
A store camera unit 231 for photographing the clothing, an accessory, a customer image, background information (mountain, sea, river, field,
And a store input unit (232) for inputting a brand, a color, a size, and price information, which are information on the clothes and accessories, using the customer image information.
6. The method of claim 5,
The store input unit (232) is at least one of a keyboard, a mouse, a barcode generator, and a QR code generator. The method according to claim 1 or 4,
Wherein the set time is set to 1 to 10 minutes.
(S100), collects small items and background information (S110), and combines the clothes, small items, and background information (S120);
The POS terminal 220 determines whether the customer has visited the store and wears (or selects) the clothes (S130) and sold the apparel (S140). If it is sold, the POS terminal 220 performs POS processing (S160) of receiving an input from the POS terminal 220 if there is an objection to the size or color if not sold;
Inputting and storing the customer's personal information (S180);
(Optional) Automatically combines clothes, accessories, and background information, which are pre-assembled according to clothing information, together with customer image information. If a customer fails to purchase the product, (S190); And
And transmitting image information of the combined product to the customer terminal together with the store information and the product identification information (S200). 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the product identification information includes identification information of a product suitable for a customer as well as customer-selected (optional) clothing information.
9. The method of claim 8,
(Store location, traffic information (subway, bus number, etc.), telephone number, available time of purchase) for the product, if there is a response from the customer terminal having received the product identification information (S210) (S220)
If there is a reply to the shop that can be visited (S230), requesting the store to prepare the product (S240).

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