Garment digitization system and method
AssigneeMettleWorks, Inc.
InventorsAndre E. Wolper, Isabelle Haulin, George D. Borshukov, Sina Maximillian Wolper
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Abstract
A garment digitization system configured to determine physical attributes for any given garment including dimensional and spatial properties, mechanical attributes, optical attributes, and assembly information; a mechanism configured to take those properties and attributes and generating a digital three-dimensional model thereof; a mechanism to make such digital three-dimensional garment models available to others; and a mechanism operatively coupled with a local or remote display providing views of said digital garment.
Claims15
A garment digitization system configured to operate on a desktop computer system and/or a specialized internet server computer located anywhere and linked over any network including the internet to at least one web-enabled device located anywhere, said computer or combination of computers forming a system comprising:
- a capture apparatus configured to process physical garment samples into a digital representation consisting of two-dimensional contours from the flat state of each panel of said garment sample;
- a three-dimensional template generation and storage mechanism configured on a desktop or server-based computer and capable of the generation and storage of three-dimensional templates reflecting the two-dimensional panel contours of garments that have been processed into panels, each template creating a grouping of panels that are oriented in space, with their connection vis-à-vis each other defined, and each panel having default mechanical attributes defined;
- a template transformation mechanism configured on a desktop or server-based computer capable of transforming a three-dimensional template into a copy, wherein each panel within the copy assume the precise dimensions of a particular garment sample;
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- a drape simulation mechanism configured on a desktop or server-based computer operatively coupled with the physical garment sample processing facility, the three-dimensional template generation and storage mechanism, and the template transformation mechanism, the drape simulation mechanism further configured to simulate a three-dimensional form fit of a garment sample onto a body represented in the simulator mechanism, the drape simulation mechanism configured to produce a representative drape of the garment sample, and the simulator mechanism further compiling the resultant representative drape together with the garment sample's mechanical and optical attributes into a digital instance of the garment sample suitable for further use.
A method for garment digitization providing a digital instance of one or more physical real-world garment samples, the method comprising:
- providing one or more proprietary computers including one or more processors configured to execute machine-readable instructions thereon, the computers being operatively connected to the Internet;
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- providing machine-readable instructions thereon, the instructions when executed in the processors on the computers:
- a) processing garment sample data from a garment sample into optical attribute data including a Color Bitmap, and two-dimensional contours thereof;
- b) processing two-dimensional contour data into three-dimensional geometric shapes approximating the original form of a given garment sample;
- c) simulating a fit of three-dimensional garment geometry on a three-dimensional body model resident within the simulator into one or more digital three-dimensional garment geometry models with their drape expressed;
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- d) compiling the one or more three-dimensional garment geometry models together with data including one or more of optical attribute data and mechanical attribute data into a set of data constituting the digital instance of one or more garment samples for use in future renderings of garment portrayals.
An on-line digital garment server comprising:
- a server-side application software program including a processor executing machine-readable instructions including:
- a) instructions for processing a specific garment sample into a digital instance thereof;
- b) instructions for storing digital garment instances in a repository such as a computer file system or database;
- c) instructions for serving digital garment instances to other computers via a network or other transport;
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- c) instructions for visualizing the digital instances of garment samples into an image compatible with viewing on a display device operatively connected to said server, wherein the display device includes a display configured to handle a common image format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.