Patent SG-11201407977Y-A (SG)
Title: Interactive clothes searching in online stores
Inventor: YAN SHUICHENG
IPC: G06T7/60
Filed: 2013-06-07
Abstract: (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (43) International Publication Date 12 December 2013 (12.12.2013) WIPOIPCT (10) International Publication Number WO 2013/184073 A1 (51) International Patent Classification: G06T 7/60 (2006.01) G06Q 30/00 (2012.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/SG2013/000238 (22) International Filing Date: 7 June 2013 (07.06.2013) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 61/657,146 8 June 2012 (08.06.2012) US (71) Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGA­ PORE [SG/SG]; 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077 (SG). (72) Inventors: YAN, Shuicheng; c/o National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electric­ al & Computer Engineering, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077 (SG). SONG, Zheng; c/o National Uni­ versity of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077 (SG). LIU, Si; c/o National University of Singapore, School of Computing, Depart­ ment of Computer Science, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077 (SG). (74) Agent: AMICA LAW LLC; 30 Raffles Place, #18-03/04 Chevron House, Singapore 048622 (SG). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available)'. AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IS, JP, KE, KG, KN, KP, KR, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LT, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available)'. ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, [Continued on next page] (54) Title: INTERACTIVE CLOTHES SEARCHING IN ONLINE STORES 410 400 Human photos labeled with component positions. l> O •t 00 Train templates of components head neck mm shoulders 430 Train tree structured component combinations //<% §> - frontal poses profile poses Find best matched template on new images 420 Human Component Localization Scheme FIG. 4 (57) Abstract: A clothing search system provides a clothing search to users us­ ing a component-based image search. Retailer catalogs are analyzed to de­ termine clothing components within clothing images. Features associated with the components are determined. When a user requests a clothing search, the clothing search system selects cloth­ ing based on the components and fea­ tures requested by the user. The user may also provide an image to the cloth­ ing search system. The clothing search system determines components and fea­ tures of the image and identifies cloth­ ing with matching components. WO 2013/184073 Al I lllll llllllll II llllll III lllll lllll III III III lllll lllll lllll lllll lllll llll lllllll llll llll llll TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, Published: KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). — internationa i searc h report (Art. 21(3)) Declarations under Rule 4.17: — of inventorship (Rule 4.17 (iv))