Tool for design and fabrication of knitted components
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsAyelet Karmon, Shoval Nir, Tom Shaked, Eyal Sheffer, Yoav Sterman
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Abstract
Computer based systems and methods for designing and manufacturing consumer products, including knit footwear uppers, and the like. The system simulates deformations of knit structures and allows the user to control and visualize compensations in the structure(s) of the knitted component to better match between an intended knit design and the actual physical knitted component outcome. The system may modify a knit design of a knitted component to compensate for a predicted/estimated deformation behavior of the knitted component, for example, by duplicating one or more portions of a knit structure associated with the knit design.
Claims17
A method, comprising:
- predicting, by a computing device and based on a simulation model for a plurality of knit structures of a knit design, a deformation of a knit structure of the plurality of knit structures;
- modifying, by the computing device, the knit design to compensate for the deformation associated with the knit design, wherein the modifying comprises duplicating one or more portions of the knit structure;
- and
- sending, to a knitting machine, knitting instructions associated with the modified knit design.
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to:
- predict, based on a simulation model for a plurality of knit structures of a knit design, a deformation of a knit structure of the plurality of knit structures;
- modify the knit design to compensate for the deformation associated with the knit design, wherein the modifying comprises duplicating one or more portions of the knit structure;
- and
- send, to a knitting machine, knitting instructions associated with the modified knit design.
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:
- predict, based on a simulation model for a plurality of knit structures of a knit design, a deformation of a knit structure of the plurality of knit structures;
- modify the knit design to compensate for the deformation associated with the knit design, wherein the modifying comprises duplicating one or more portions of the knit structure;
- and
- send, to a knitting machine, knitting instructions associated with the modified knit design.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.