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US 11,026,461 B2Granted
Substituting an existing collection in an apparel management system
AssigneeLevi Strauss & Co.
InventorsChristopher Schultz, Debdulal Mahanty, Jennifer Schultz, Benjamin Bell, James Barton Sights
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Abstract
A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. The system swaps garments in a digital asset to garments that are designed using the system.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing a garment previewing tool that allows previewing on a computer screen of a garment base customized by a user with a finishing pattern, wherein the garment previewing tool includes:
- providing an option for the user to select the garment base and upon a user's selection, showing a first garment preview image on the computer screen comprising a jeans base image for the selected garment base,
- providing an option for the user to select a wear pattern from a menu of wear patterns, and
- after the wear pattern is selected, allowing the user to select the wear pattern and modify a sizing or position of the wear pattern relative to the jeans base image;
- in response to a selection from the user to modify the sizing or positioning of the wear pattern relative to the jeans base image, creating a garment preview image comprising the jeans base image and selected wear pattern, with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination, and the garment preview image is generated by a method comprising
- generating an adjusted base image from the jeans base image without the selected wear pattern,
- generating a pattern mask based on a laser input file associated with the selected wear pattern,
- for a pixel at a pixel location of the garment preview image, obtaining a first contribution by combining a first value associated with a pixel of the pattern mask at a pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the jeans base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image,
- for the pixel at the pixel location of the garment preview image, obtaining a second contribution by combining a second value associated with the pixel of the pattern mask at the pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the adjusted base image at an adjusted base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image,
- combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the garment preview image, and
- displaying the pixel of the garment preview image as a color on the computer screen, wherein the color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value;
- receiving an existing webpage, wherein the existing webpage comprises a plurality of existing customer imagery of garments;
- identifying, from a plurality of garments created using the garment previewing tool, at least one similar garment from the plurality of garments to each garment of the plurality of existing customer imagery of garments;
- and
- replacing in the existing webpage, for each garment of the plurality of existing imagery of garments, with a similar garment of the plurality of garments.
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A method comprising:
- providing a garment previewing tool that allows previewing on a computer screen of a garment base customized by a user with a finishing pattern, wherein the garment previewing tool includes:
- providing an option for the user to select the garment base and upon a user's selection, showing a first garment preview image on the computer screen comprising a jeans base image for the selected garment base,
- providing an option for the user to select a wear pattern from a menu of wear patterns, and
- after the wear pattern is selected, allowing the user to select the wear pattern and modify a sizing or position of the wear pattern relative to the jeans base image;
- in response to a selection from the user to modify the sizing or positioning of the wear pattern relative to the jeans base image, creating a garment preview image comprising the jeans base image and selected wear pattern, with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination, and the garment preview image is generated by a method comprising
- generating an adjusted base image from the jeans base image without the selected wear pattern,
- generating a pattern mask based on a laser input file associated with the selected wear pattern,
- for a pixel at a pixel location of the garment preview image, obtaining a first contribution by combining a first value associated with a pixel of the pattern mask at a pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the jeans base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image,
- for the pixel at the pixel location of the garment preview image, obtaining a second contribution by combining a second value associated with the pixel of the pattern mask at the pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the adjusted base image at an adjusted base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image,
- combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the garment preview image, and
- displaying the pixel of the garment preview image as a color on the computer screen, wherein the color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value;
- receiving an existing collection image, wherein the existing collection image comprises at least one of a webpage, digital look book, brochure, pamphlet, catalog, or handout;
- identifying, from a plurality of garments created using the garment previewing tool, at least one similar garment from the plurality of garments to each garment included with the existing collection image;
- and
- replacing in the existing collection image, for each garment of the plurality of existing imagery of garments, with a similar garment of the plurality of garments.
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A method comprising:
- providing a garment previewing tool that allows previewing on a computer screen of a garment base customized by a user with a finishing pattern, wherein the garment previewing tool includes:
- providing an option for the user to select the garment base and upon the user's selection, showing a first garment preview image on the computer screen comprising a garment base image for the selected garment base,
- providing an option for the user to select a wear pattern from a menu of wear patterns, and
- after the wear pattern is selected, allowing the user to select the wear pattern and modify a sizing or position of the wear pattern relative to the garment base image;
- in response to a selection from the user to modify the sizing or positioning of the wear pattern relative to the garment base image, creating a garment preview image comprising the garment base image and selected wear pattern, with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination, and the garment preview image is generated by a method comprising
- generating an adjusted base image from the jeans base image without the selected wear pattern,
- generating a pattern mask based on a laser input file associated with the selected wear pattern,
- for a pixel at a pixel location of the garment preview image, obtaining a first contribution by combining a first value associated with a pixel of the pattern mask at a pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the garment base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image,
- for the pixel at the pixel location of the garment preview image, obtaining a second contribution by combining a second value associated with the pixel of the pattern mask at the pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the adjusted base image at an adjusted base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the garment preview image,
- combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the garment preview image, and
- displaying the pixel of the garment preview image as a color on the computer screen, wherein the color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value;
- receiving a collection image comprising a plurality of images of garments;
- identifying a subset of garment preview images generated by the garment previewing tool of garments that are similar to the images of garments in the collection image;
- and
- replacing the identified similar images of garments in the collection image with the subset of garment preview images.
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