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US 10,327,487 B2Granted
Body-enhancing garment and garment design
AssigneeVF Corporation
InventorsDarren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades
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Abstract
Systems or methods for anatomy patterning a garment are provided. Anatomy patterning is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's pattern in order to change the perceived shape of a wearer of the garment toward a desired appearance. Additionally, the garments that result from use of these systems and methods for anatomy patterning are also provided.
Claims2
A method for designing a body-enhancing garment, the method comprising:
- identifying a 3-D body shape;
- identifying a flat pattern for a garment;
- applying light to the 3-D body shape to determine a 3-D brightness gradient created by the 3-D body shape upon the application of the light;
- creating a gradient 2-D image of the 3-D brightness gradient;
- positioning the flat pattern over the gradient 2-D image;
- adjusting the pattern to be lighter in portions positioned over lighter portions of the gradient 2-D image and darker in portions positioned over darker portions of the gradient 2-D image to form a shaded pattern that emulates the 3-D brightness gradient created by the 3-D body shape;
- converting the 3-D body shape into a 2-D depth map;
- positioning the shaded flat pattern on the 2-D depth map;
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- warping the shaded flat pattern to emulate the dimensions of the 3-D body shape based on the positioning of the shaded flat pattern on the 2-D depth map to create an adjusted pattern;
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- creating a 2-D image of the adjusted pattern utilizing perspective projection.
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