Patents by Inventor Francesca D. Cruz
Francesca D. Cruz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240065359Abstract: Applicators for grasping and applying small items, such as fibers and eyelashes, are disclosed. The applicators passively hold the items and a user actuates the applicator to release the items. An applicator includes a compression spring that forces a disc against a disc retention element to hold the items passively, and a button is pressed to separate the disc from the disc retention element to release the items. An applicator includes an expansion spring that holds items between coils of the spring passively, and a button is pressed to separate the spring coils to release the items.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: William Robert Bickford, Yingchao Chen, Francesca D. Cruz, Sylvie Poret-Fristot, Aline Aude Guimont, Karin Kaskiel, Chunhua Li
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Patent number: 11776187Abstract: A digital makeup artist system and method for a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to provide advice, including requesting a cosmetic consultation, acquiring information including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The method determines facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist to provide the advice, based on the face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine Troutman, Sandrine Gadol, Francesca D. Cruz
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Patent number: 11657553Abstract: A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to capture needs of the user, including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to identify face parts, analyzes the face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine Troutman, Sandrine Gadol, Francesca D. Cruz
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Publication number: 20220414958Abstract: A digital makeup artist system and method for a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to provide advice, including requesting a cosmetic consultation, acquiring information including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The method determines facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist to provide the advice, based on the face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine TROUTMAN, Sandrine GADOL, Francesca D. Cruz
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Patent number: 11461946Abstract: A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to provide advice, including requesting a cosmetic consultation, acquiring information including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist to provide the advice, based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine Troutman, Sandrine Gadol, Francesca D. Cruz
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Publication number: 20220207801Abstract: A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to capture needs of the user, including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to identify face parts, analyzes the face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine TROUTMAN, Sandrine GADOL, Francesca D. CRUZ
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Publication number: 20220202168Abstract: An augmented reality system for makeup, includes a makeup objective unit including computation circuitry operably coupled to a graphical user interface configured to generate one or more instances of user selectable makeup objectives and to receive user-selected makeup objective information, a makeup palette unit operably coupled to the makeup objective unit, the makeup palette unit including computation circuitry configured to generate at least one digital makeup palette for a digital makeup product, and a makeup objective visualization unit including computation circuitry configured to analyze a user's face to determine one or more of face shape, facial landmarks, skin tone, hair color, eye color, lip shape, eyelid shape, hair style and lighting, and automatically create one or more instances of a custom virtual try-on for a user in accordance with the user-selected makeup objective information and the at least one digital makeup palette generated based on the analysis of the user's face.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine TROUTMAN, Sandrine GADOL, Francesca D. CRUZ
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Publication number: 20220207802Abstract: A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to provide advice, including requesting a cosmetic consultation, acquiring information including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist to provide the advice, based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine TROUTMAN, Sandrine Gadol, Francesca D. Cruz
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Patent number: 11321882Abstract: An augmented reality system for makeup, includes a makeup objective unit including computation circuitry operably coupled to a graphical user interface configured to generate one or more instances of user selectable makeup objectives and to receive user-selected makeup objective information, a makeup palette unit operably coupled to the makeup objective unit, the makeup palette unit including computation circuitry configured to generate at least one digital makeup palette for a digital makeup product in accordance with the user-selected makeup objective information, and a makeup objective visualization unit including computation circuitry configured to generate one or more instances of a virtual try-on in accordance with the user-selected makeup objective information.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Mindy Christine Troutman, Sandrine Gadol, Francesca D. Cruz