Systems and methods for wardrobe management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10282772-B2
Application number	US-201715665913-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2017
Priority date	Dec 22, 2016
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may provide a virtual wardrobe management system. The system may store wardrobe data associated with a plurality of garments. The system may then receive input data indicative of a garment selection. The system may identify the garment based on the input data received. The system may then generate a garment recommendation based on the selected garment and the stored wardrobe data and provide an indication of the recommendation to a computing device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wearable augmented reality device comprising:
a memory for storing wardrobe data associated with a plurality of garments; one or more environmental sensors for obtaining garment selection data comprising visual information representing a selected garment, the one or more environmental sensors comprising a digital camera configured to obtain one or more images of the selected garment in response to detecting that a user is trying the selected garment on while looking at a reflection of the user in a mirror;
a wardrobe management processor that, based on the garment selection data obtained from the one or more environmental sensors and the stored wardrobe data, is configured to:
identify the selected garment by performing image recognition techniques on one or more of the images of the selected garment;
determine a condition of the selected garment by analyzing the image data to
detect at least one item of:
a hole in the selected garment,
fraying of the selected garment,
discoloration of the selected garment, and
fading of the selected garment,

responsive to determining that the condition of the selected garment is below a predetermined condition threshold, generate a garment recommendation based on the identification of the selected garment, the garment recommendation being associated with an alternative garment of the plurality of garments; and
generate an indication of the garment recommendation comprising an indication that the selected garment should be replaced and a visual representation of the alternative garment; and
a display configured to display a visual representation of the garment recommendation by superimposing the visual representation of the alternative garment over a live image of the user via the display.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein generating a garment recommendation comprises:
accessing wardrobe history data stored in the memory, the wardrobe history data comprising usage history information for one or more of the plurality of garments and comprising one or more of a time since last worn and a wear frequency over a predetermined period;
determining, for the selected garment and based on the stored wardrobe history data, that (1) the time since last worn is less than a predetermined threshold number of days ago, or that (2) the wear frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold frequency; and
generating the garment recommendation based on the determination, wherein the garment recommendation is associated with the alternative garment of the plurality of garments.

3. The wearable augmented reality device of claim 1 , wherein the wardrobe data comprises at least one type of garment type, garment brand, garment size, garment color, garment pattern, garment design, garment age, garment value, and garment season.

4. A virtual wardrobe management system, comprising:
a wearable augmented reality device;
one or more processors in communication with the wearable augmented reality device; and
a memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the system to: store wardrobe data associated with a plurality of garments;
responsive to detecting by the wearable augmented reality device worn by a user that the user is trying a selected garment on while looking at a reflection of the user in a mirror, obtain one or more images of a selected garment by a camera associated with the wearable augmented reality device;
receive, from the wearable augmented reality device, input data indicative of the selected garment, the input data comprising image data representative of the one or more images of the selected garment;
identify the selected garment from the plurality of garments based on the input data, wherein the identification is performed by applying image recognition techniques to the one or more images of the selected garment;
determine a condition of the selected garment by analyzing the image data to detect at least one item of:
a hole in the selected garment,
fraying of the selected garment,
discoloration of the selected garment, and
fading of the selected garment,

responsive to determining that the condition of the selected garment is below a predetermined condition threshold, generate a garment recommendation based on the selected garment and the stored wardrobe data, the garment recommendation being associated with an alternative garment of the plurality of garments;
generate, an indication of the garment recommendation comprising an indication that the selected garment should be replaced and a visual representation of the alternative garment for display by the wearable augmented reality device;
provide, to the wearable augmented reality device, the indication of the garment recommendation for display by the wearable augmented reality device; and
display, by the wearable augmented reality device, the visual representation of the alternative garment superimposed over a live image of the user.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the wardrobe data associated with the plurality of garments comprises one or more of a type, a size, a color(s), a pattern(s), and a design(s) of each of the plurality of garments.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein providing the indication of the garment recommendation comprises outputting, to the wearable augmented reality device and for display on the wearable augmented reality device in a virtual environment, a representation of the selected garment in association with representations of one or more additional garments of the plurality of garments.

7. The system of claim 4 , the memory storing instructions that further cause the system to:
responsive to identifying the selected garment, store usage information about the selected garment in a usage history database, wherein the usage information comprises one or more of an identification of the selected garment, a wear date, a wear time, a wear weekday, and one or more additional garments that were worn in association with the selected garment.

8. The system of claim 4 , wherein the input data indicative of the selected garment comprises an indication that the camera associated with the wearable augmented reality device has focused on the selected garment for more than a threshold period of time.

9. The system of claim 4 , wherein the input data is actively provided by the user.

10. The system of claim 4 , wherein the input data is passively provided by at least one method of visually recognizing shapes, visually recognizing bar codes, and visually recognizing quick response (QR) codes.

11. The system of claim 4 , wherein the wardrobe data comprises at least one type of garment type, garment brand, garment size, garment color, garment pattern, garment design, garment age, garment value, and garment season.

12. The system of claim 4 , wherein generating the garment recommendation is based on popularity data obtained from a merchant database terminal.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computer system to:
store wardrobe data associated with a plurality of garments;
responsive to detecting by a wearable augmented reality device worn by a user that the user is trying a selected garment on while looking at a reflection of the user in a mirror, obtain one or more images of the selected garment by a camera associated with a wearable augmented reality device;
receive, from the wearable augmented reality device, input data indicative of the selected garment, the input data comprising image data representative of the on

Assignees

• Capital One Services Llc

Inventors

• Giampaolo Marco S
• Nickerson Karen
• Wishne Justin
• Jacobs Drew
• Smith Justin
• Jouhikainen Hannes

Classifications

• G06Q30/0631 Primary

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

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  by investigating goods or services · CPC title

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  by formulating product or service queries, e.g. using keywords or predefined options · CPC title

• G06Q30/0643

  graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation · CPC title

• G06Q30/0641

  utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping · CPC title