Patent ID: 9442973
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A61B,G01J,G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing a database of cosmetic products, wherein each cosmetic product of the database of cosmetic products comprises a brand name, a product name, and a shade name; providing a skin tone color space, wherein the skin tone color space includes a plurality of skin tone identifiers and each skin tone identifier corresponds to a skin tone found in a population sample; for each cosmetic product of the database of cosmetic products, analyzing the cosmetic product to determine at least one match to a skin tone identifier in the skin tone color space; for each cosmetic product analyzed, storing a skin tone identifier determined with the analyzed cosmetic product in a database of cosmetic products with skin tones, wherein each cosmetic product in the database of cosmetic products with skin tones comprises at least one skin tone identifier; allowing the database of cosmetic products with skin tones to store multiple different skin tone identifiers for an analyzed cosmetic product having only a single color; obtaining a skin tone identifier for a user by using an optical scanner to transform at least two scans of a user's face at two different locations into the user's skin tone identifier that is representative of the two different locations; searching the database of cosmetic products with skin tones to find one or more cosmetic products having a determined a skin tone identifier that is the same as the user's skin tone identifier; and on an electronic screen, providing a listing of results of the searching the database of cosmetic products with skin tones.