Process for displaying articles of clothing on an image of a person

Patent 6144388 Issued on November 7, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

May 11, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Bornstein, Raanan

Application

No. 075692 filed on 05/11/1998

US Classes:

345/629Merge or overlay

Examiners

Primary: Nguyen, Phu K.
Assistant: Vo, Cliff N.

International Class

G06T 001/00

Abstract

A computer-implemented process of generating a two-dimensional image of a selected article of clothing superimposed at a location on a two-dimensional image of a person using a computer network having at least a server and a client computer is described. The computer-implemented process of the present invention includes: (1) retrieving the two-dimensional image of the person from a two-dimensional database; (2) obtaining user's picture three-dimensional clothing parameters associated with the person, the user's picture three-dimensional clothing parameters specifies at least the location of a generic article of clothing on the image of the person; (3) manipulating using at least one of the server and the client computer the three-dimensional model of the selected article of clothing according to the user's picture three-dimensional clothing parameters such that the selected article of clothing is positioned at the location on the image of the person; (4) converting the three-dimensional model of the selected article of clothing into a two-dimensional image; and (5) assembling the two-dimensional image of the selected article of clothing on the image of the person and thereby generating a two-dimensional image of the article of clothing on the image of the person.