Method, system and apparatus for dispensing products for a personal care service, instructing on providing a personal care treatment service, and selecting a personal care service

摘要

A method, system and apparatus for delivery of custom blended dispensing custom blended personal care beauty products for a beauty service, wherein one or more components of a beauty product are stored where they may be supplied as needed to a dispenser, and where a control mechanism regulates the dosage of beauty components to provide a desired selected personal care beauty product with the characteristics selected. A selection screen display provides an image of a person and the person's hair that may be manipulated to simulate modifications that may include cut or styling and color or other effects. The selections are processed and stored and a formula is generated and communicating to a dispensing device to deliver the product components to produce the formula.

主权项

1. A system for dispensing a beauty product formed from a plurality of beauty product components, the system comprising:
a) a frame; b) a dispenser supported on said frame having at least one dispensing outlet; c) a plurality of beauty product components, each of the said beauty product components being contained in a respective container; d) said dispenser including a plurality of lines, each line of said plurality of lines having a passageway therethrough, each said line communicatively linking one of said plurality of said containers with said dispensing outlet; e) said dispenser including a control mechanism and a pumping mechanism; f) wherein said pumping mechanism alternates between compression and relaxation of a respective line of said plurality of lines to regulate the delivery of said plurality of beauty product components from their respective containers; g) wherein said control mechanism regulates the operation of said pumping mechanism to deliver dosages of a plurality of said respective beauty product components to said dispensing outlet to provide a beauty product; h) further including a selection system for selecting a color to apply to the hair of a person, i) the selection system including software, a processor and at least one display on which is generated a plurality of hair colors from which to choose; j) said selection system receiving an image of a person that includes at least the person's hair and face, k) said selection system providing on said display an image of the person's face and person's hair, l) wherein said person's image is transformed on said display based on a selected color to display that selected color on said hair image of said person independently of the image of the person's face, m) the system including a selection option that is displayed on said display for selecting a target color; n) said selection system software including instructions to receive a first input that identifies the condition of a person's existing hair, to receive a second input of said target color by displaying a selection of color options from which to select the desired target color for the existing hair and receiving a selection of said target color from said selection of color options, to process the information received as the first input and the second input, said processing of said information including generating a formula for said beauty product that produces the target color when applied to the person's existing hair; and o) wherein said selection system is linked for communication with said control mechanism to communicate said generated formula to said control mechanism; p) wherein said image of said person's face and hair appear as an image with a green screen background; and q) wherein said image of said person's hair appears as an image depicting said hair surrounded by a green screen apart from an image of the person; r) wherein transformation of said hair image of said person transforms the depicted hair image that was surrounded by the green screen independently of the image of the person's face.