Patent ID: 7356489

Claim:
A system for reproducing a preceding picture of a user wearing clothes or other articles, comprising: input means to receive at least one pre-registered picture of a user actually wearing at least one previous article of clothing; a storage element to store the at least one pre-registered picture along with an identification of a kind of the at least one previous article previously actually worn by the user as shown in the at least one pre-registered picture; a screen to display the at least one pre-registered picture of the user; a clothes type detector to automatically identify the kind of articles currently worn by the user; a selecting tool for the user to select between a first and a second type of search to perform upon a plurality of pre-registered pictures of the user stored in at least one central database, the first and second type of searches being based upon (1) a stored identification of a kind of article actually being worn by the user as shown in each of the plurality of pre-registered pictures and (2) a current identification of a kind of article of a current article actually worn by the user, and (a) the first type of search facilitates a comparison of the current article actually worn by the user with at least one first article previously actually being worn by the user as shown in a first one of the plurality of pre-registered pictures, the current article and the at least one first article being of a same kind of article of clothing, and (b) the second type of search facilitates a matching of the current article actually worn by the user with at least one second article previously actually being worn by the user as shown in a second one of the plurality of pre-registered pictures, the current article and the at least one second article being of a different kind of article of clothing; and a search unit to extract automatically, from the at least one central database and in accordance with first or second type of search selected, the at least one pre-registered picture in which the user is previously actually wearing the at least one previous article similar to or capable of being matched with the current article actually worn by the user.