Associating cosmetic products to skin tone color

摘要

A system allows people to more easily find products matching their skin tone. The system includes a database that categorizes cosmetic products according to a skin tone color set. The system includes a scanning device to scan one or more spots of a person's skin. For example, three different spots can be scanned. The scan determines a skin-tone identifier for the person's skin. With this skin-tone identifier, the customer can view products that match their skin tone.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing a database of cosmetic products, wherein each cosmetic product of the database of cosmetic products comprises a brand name, a product name, and a shade name; providing a skin tone color space, wherein the skin tone color space includes a plurality of skin tone identifiers and each skin tone identifier corresponds to a skin tone found in a population sample; for each cosmetic product of the database of cosmetic products, analyzing the cosmetic product to determine at least one match to a skin tone identifier in the skin tone color space; for each cosmetic product analyzed, storing a skin tone identifier determined with the analyzed cosmetic product in a database of cosmetic products with skin tones, wherein each cosmetic product in the database of cosmetic products with skin tones comprises at least one skin tone identifier; allowing the database of cosmetic products with skin tones to store multiple different skin tone identifiers for an analyzed cosmetic product having only a single color; obtaining a skin tone identifier for a user by using an optical scanner to transform at least two scans of a user's face at two different locations into the user's skin tone identifier that is representative of the two different locations; searching the database of cosmetic products with skin tones to find one or more cosmetic products having a determined a skin tone identifier that is the same as the user's skin tone identifier; and on an electronic screen, providing a listing of results of the searching the database of cosmetic products with skin tones.