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US 11,708,662 B2Granted
Replacing imagery of garments in an existing apparel collection with laser-finished garments
AssigneeLevi Strauss & Co.
InventorsDebdulal Mahanty, Jennifer Schultz, Benjamin Bell, James Barton Sights, Christopher Schultz
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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. The wear pattern is created by a laser using a laser input file. Generating the preview image comprises combining first and second contributions to obtain a combined value for a pixel at the pixel location of the preview image.
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A method comprising:
- generating a preview image on a computer screen of a first garment with a finishing pattern to be created by a laser using a laser input file, wherein the generating comprises
- providing a base image of a garment without the finishing pattern,
- generating an adjusted base image from the base image without the finishing pattern,
- generating a pattern mask based on the laser input file associated with the finishing pattern,
- for a pixel at a pixel location of the first 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 first garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the first garment preview image,
- for the pixel at the pixel location of the first 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 first 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 first garment preview image,
- combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the first garment preview image, and
- displaying the pixel of the first 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 comprising an existing Web page, wherein the existing Web page comprises a plurality of existing customer imagery of garments;
- identifying the first garment as being similar to an identified garment of the plurality of existing customer imagery of garments;
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- replacing the identified garment in the existing collection image with the first garment identified as being similar to the identified garment.
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A method comprising:
- generating a preview image on a computer screen of a first garment with a finishing pattern to be created by a laser using a laser input file, wherein the generating comprises
- providing a base image of a garment without the finishing pattern,
- generating an adjusted base image from the base image without the finishing pattern,
- generating a pattern mask based on the laser input file associated with the finishing pattern,
- for a pixel at a pixel location of the first 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 first garment preview image and a value of a pixel of the base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the first garment preview image,
- for the pixel at the pixel location of the first 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 first garment preview image,
- combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the first garment preview image, and
- displaying the pixel of the first 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 Web page, digital look book, brochure, pamphlet, catalog, or handout, wherein the existing collection image comprises a plurality of existing customer imagery of garments;
- identifying the first garment as being similar to an identified garment of the plurality of existing customer imagery of garments;
- and
- replacing the identified garment of the plurality of existing customer imagery of garments with the first garment identified as being similar to the identified garment.
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A method comprising:
- generating a preview image on a computer screen of a first garment with a finishing pattern to be created by a laser using a laser input file, wherein the generating comprises
- providing a base image of a garment without the finishing pattern,
- generating an adjusted base image from the base image without the finishing pattern,
- generating a pattern mask based on the laser input file associated with the finishing pattern,
- for a pixel at a pixel location of the first 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 first 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 first garment preview image,
- for the pixel at the pixel location of the first 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 first 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 first garment preview image,
- combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the first garment preview image, and
- displaying the pixel of the first 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;
- wherein the preview image is of a plurality of garment preview images generated, and identifying a subset of the garment preview images generated that are similar to the images of garments in the collection image;
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- replacing the identified similar images of garments in the collection image with the subset of garment preview images, wherein the subset of the garment preview images comprises the preview image of the first garment.
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