Social shopping experience utilizing interactive mirror and polling of target audience members identified by a relationship with product information about an item being worn by a user

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11544341-B2
Application number	US-201916446039-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2019
Priority date	Mar 13, 2014
Publication date	Jan 3, 2023
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023

Abstract

Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing an interactive and social fitting room experience. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include selecting a target audience to poll for feedback on an image of an individual wearing a garment in a fitting room. The method may further include transmitting the image to a computing device of each member of the target audience, and compiling feedback regarding the image from members of the target audience. The method may further include causing the compiled feedback to be displayed to the individual on an interactive mirror display in the fitting room.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
an interactive mirror display;
a camera configured to produce an image feed, the image feed including an image of an individual wearing an item; and
a controller comprising one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
automatically identifying the item being worn by the individual using one or more image processing and analysis techniques on the image of the individual from the image feed;
obtaining detailed product information about the item from a product database;
selecting a target audience to poll for feedback related to the image of the individual wearing the item, the target audience selected based on the detailed product information, the selecting of the target audience including identifying a relationship between the detailed product information and user data of members of the target audience;
transmitting image data to a computing device of each member of the target audience, the image data including the image of the individual wearing the item;
compiling feedback data based on feedback information received from members of the target audience, the feedback information being related to the image of the individual wearing the item; and
causing display, on the interactive mirror display, of a feedback interface to present the feedback data in real time as the feedback data is compiled.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feedback information includes one or more ratings of the image of the individual wearing the item.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the compiling of the feedback data includes calculating an aggregate rating from the one or more ratings.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the causing display of the feedback interface comprises transmitting a set of instructions to a mobile device of the individual that cause the mobile device to display the feedback interface.

5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising retrieving a list of social network connections of the individual, wherein at least one member of the target audience is identified from the list of social network connections of the individual.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the detailed product information comprises an item type of the item; and
the selecting of the target audience comprises identifying a relationship between the item type and user data of at least one member of the target audience.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the selecting of the target audience comprises selecting at least one member of the target audience based on user input indicative of a user selection of the at least one member.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
transmitting machine-readable instructions to the computing device of each member of the target audience that cause presentation, on the device, of a survey related to the image of the individual wearing the item; and
receiving, one or more responses to the survey, the responses including the feedback information.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feedback information includes textual comments related to the image of the individual wearing the item.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise distorting aspects of the image of the individual wearing the item to anonymize an identity of the individual prior to transmitting the image data to the target audience.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the target audience includes a plurality of users with a transaction history associated with the item.

12. The system of claim 1 , further comprising identifying use case information specified by the individual including an intended use for the item being worn by the individual.

13. The system of claim 12 further comprising causing display, on the interactive mirror display, background image content that mimics a setting based on the use case information including the individual's intended use for the item.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the selecting the target audience includes identifying a known hobby or occupation of the members, the hobby or occupation indicating experience of the members with the identified use case.

15. A method comprising:
capturing, by a camera device of an interactive mirror display, an image of an individual wearing an item;
automatically identifying the item being worn by the individual using one or more image processing and analysis techniques on the image of the individual;
obtaining detailed product information about the item from a product database;
selecting a target audience to poll for feedback related to the image of the individual wearing the item, the target audience selected based on the detailed product information, the selecting of the target audience including identifying a relationship between the detailed product information and user data of members of the target audience;
transmitting image data to a computing device of each member of the target audience, the image data including the image of the individual wearing the item;
compiling feedback data based on feedback information received from members of the target audience, the feedback information being related to the image of the individual wearing the item; and
causing display, on the interactive mirror display, of a feedback interface to present the feedback data in real time as the feedback data is compiled.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the causing display of the feedback interface comprises transmitting a set of instructions to a mobile device of the individual that cause the mobile device to display the feedback interface.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein:
the detailed product information comprises an item type of the item; and
the selecting of the target audience comprises identifying a relationship between the item type and user data of at least one member of the target audience.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the selecting of the target audience comprises identifying a relationship between use case information and user data of at least one member of the target audience.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising distorting aspects of the image of the individual wearing the item to anonymize an identity of the individual prior to transmitting the image data to the target audience.

20. A tangible machine-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
capturing, by a camera device of an interactive mirror display, an image of an individual wearing an item;
automatically identifying the item being worn by the individual using one or more image processing and analysis techniques on the image of the individual;
obtaining detailed product information about the item from a product database;
selecting a target audience to poll for feedback related to the image of the individual wearing the item, the target audience selected based on the detailed product information, the selecting of the target audience including identifying a relationship between the detailed product information and user data of members of the target audience;
transmitting image data to a computing device of each member of the target audience, the image data including the image of the individual wearing the item;
compiling feedback data based on feedback information received from members of the target audience, the feedback information being related to the image of the individual wearing the item; and
causing display, on the interactive mirror display, of a feedba

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Cypher Healey
• Ogishi Tracy
• Endo Darren
• Franklin Michael
• Wensel Lars

Classifications

• G06F16/955 Primary

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title

• G06Q30/0251 Primary

  Targeted advertisements · CPC title

• G06Q30/0623

  by investigating goods or services · CPC title

• G06K7/10237

  the reader and the record carrier being capable of selectively switching between reader and record carrier appearance, e.g. in near field communication [NFC] devices where the NFC device may function as an RFID reader or as an RFID tag · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title