Patent ID: 8311339

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for video matching for comparison shopping, comprising: recording a first sequence of images of a user wearing a first piece of clothing, jewelry, or other wearable item in front of a single camera; storing the first sequence of images; recording a second sequence of images of the user wearing a second piece of clothing, jewelry, or other wearable item in front of the single camera; storing the second sequence of images; identifying, for each image in the second sequence of images, one or more matching images in the first sequence of images according to a matching algorithm; generating a third sequence of images from the first sequence of images, wherein the third sequence of images includes the matching images ordered based on their corresponding sequence number from the second sequence, and wherein the matching images are selected so that two consecutive images in the third sequence have a minimum pixel difference from each other; and displaying the second sequence of images and the third sequence of images to the user in close visual proximity to each other to permit the user to compare how they look in the first piece and the second piece of clothing, jewelry, or other wearable item.