Patent ID: 8321301

Claim:
A method for normalizing images of purchasable articles of clothing, the method comprising: receiving at a computer processor an image of a shopper, wherein the image of the shopper includes the shopper positioned in front of a background size substrate having vertical and horizontal measurement lines; normalizing the image of the shopper to a standard clothing size using the computer processor, wherein the normalization of the image of the shopper is based on a determination of one or more absolute sizes of the shopper in the image using the vertical and horizontal measurement lines; receiving an image of a clothing article from a clothing provider server; normalizing the image of the clothing article to the standard clothing size using the computer processor, wherein the normalization of the image of the clothing article is based on a determination using linear dimensions of the clothing article received from a manufacturer; generating a composite image superimposing the normalized image of the clothing article with the normalized image of the shopper.