Patent ID: 8655053
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for obtaining a size measurement of a person to be fitted for a garment, comprising: providing a plurality of digital images from a camera of a portable electronic device, wherein each of the plurality of digital images includes photographic data of a particular body part of a user, the plurality of photographs providing images of the particular body part from a plurality of different aspects; generating a 3-D or contoured computer model of at least a portion of the particular body part by applying a feature extraction technique to the photographic data from the plurality of digital images, wherein generating the computer model includes estimating the size of the particular body part in a plurality of iterations using the photographic data from the plurality of different aspects; calculating an actual size of one or more features of the particular body part; generating a fitting measurement for a garment using the calculated actual size of the one or more features; and providing the fitting measurement to the user.