Product search device, system, method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016321733-A1
Application number	US-201615207884-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 12, 2016
Priority date	Feb 28, 2014
Publication date	Nov 3, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides a product search device, system, method and program capable of causing a customer who searches for products to be confident that even if more products are searched for, there will be no better products. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a representative design selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired representative design via a user interface of an information terminal or directly. A first display image search and formation unit searches for products adopting the selected representative design from a product database and creates first product list data. A product image selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired product from the first product list data. A second display image search and formation unit searches for products having a second feature amount near a second feature amount of the selected product from the product database and creates second product list data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A product search device, comprising:
representative design output means for creating data for displaying, side by side, representative designs that are samples of designs adopted in a plurality of respective products according to a first feature amount regarding the designs of the plurality of products, and outputting the data; representative design selection means for receiving a selection of a desired representative design from the representative designs in the data output by the representative design output means; representative product search means for searching for a product adopting a design corresponding to the selected representative design from among the plurality of products; representative product data output means for creating data for displaying the products searched for by the representative product search means, and outputting the data; product selection means for receiving a selection of a desired product from the products in the data output by the representative product data output means; and nearby product search means for searching for a product having a second feature amount near a second feature amount of the selected product from among the plurality of products, based on the second feature amount for the design of the selected product and the second feature amount for the designs of the plurality of products, wherein the second feature amount is different from the first feature amount.

2 . The product search device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the nearby product search means searches for a product of a design in a range of a specific second feature amount around the second feature amount of the design of the selected product.

3 . The product search device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the representative design is at least one of samples of color, pattern, texture, or shape.

4 . The product search device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the representative design is a sample of a color, and the first feature amount is any one of chroma, brightness, hue, and tone.

5 . The product search device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the representative design is a sample of a pattern, and the first feature amount is any one of a size of a pattern, a density of the pattern, and the number of colors of the pattern.

6 . The product search device according to claims 3 ,
wherein the representative design is a sample of texture, and the first feature amount is any one of a degree of gloss and a degree of transparency.

7 . The product search device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the second feature amount is at least one of chroma, brightness, hue, tone, a size of a pattern, a density of the pattern, the number of colors of the pattern, a degree of gloss, or a degree of transparency, the at least one being different from the first feature amount.

8 . The product search device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the nearby product search means searches for a product having chroma, brightness, hue or tone near chroma, brightness, hue, or tone of the selected product.

9 . The product search device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the nearby product search means searches for a product having a size of the pattern, a density of the pattern, or the number of colors of the pattern near a size of the pattern, a density of the pattern, or the number of colors of the pattern of the selected product.

10 . The product search device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the nearby product search means searches for a product having a degree of gloss or a degree of transparency near the degree of gloss or the degree of transparency of the selected product.

11 . The product search device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a near product output means for creating data for displaying the products searched for by the nearby product search means side by side near the selected product according to the second feature amount and outputting the data.

12 . A product search system, comprising:
the product search device according to claim 11 ; a representative design display means for displaying the data output by the representative design output means; representative design selection operation output means for receiving an operation to select a desired representative design from the representative designs in the data displayed by the representative design display means, and outputting a result of selection according to the operation to the representative design selection means; representative product data display means for displaying the data output by the representative product data output means; product selection operation output means for receiving an operation to select a desired product from the products in the data displayed by the representative product data display means, and outputting a result of selection according to the operation to the product selection means; and nearby product display means for displaying the data output by the nearby product output means.

13 . A product search method executed by a computer, the method comprising:
a representative design output step of creating data for displaying, side by side, representative designs that are samples of designs adopted in a plurality of respective products according to a first feature amount regarding the designs of the plurality of products, and outputting the data; a representative design selection step of receiving a selection of a desired representative design from the representative designs in the output data; a representative design-corresponding product search step of searching for a product adopting a design corresponding to the selected representative design from among the plurality of products; a representative design-corresponding product search data output step of creating data for displaying the products searched for, and outputting the data; a product selection step of receiving a selection of a desired product from the products in the output data; a nearby product search step of searching for a product having a second feature amount near a second feature amount of the selected product from among the plurality of products, based on the second feature amount for the design of the selected product and the second feature amount for the designs of the plurality of products; and a nearby product search data output step of creating data for displaying the search products side by side near the selected product according to the second feature amount, and outputting the data, wherein the second feature amount is different from the first feature amount.

14 . A computer-readable non-transient recording medium having a program for causing a computer to execute the product search method according to claim 13 .

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Yonaha Makoto
• Noguchi Yukinori

Classifications

• G06F16/54

  Browsing; Visualisation therefor · CPC title

• G06Q30/0629 Primary

  by pre-processing results, e.g. ranking or ordering results · CPC title

• G06Q30/0643

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

• G06Q30/0627

  by specifying product or service characteristics, e.g. product dimensions · CPC title

• G06Q30/0601

  Electronic shopping [e-shopping] · CPC title