System and method for remote tailoring
OwnerGraziano Meloniinventor
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Abstract
The invention is a system and method of remote tailoring including the steps of placing a fitting jacket onto a client, the fitting jacket including a torso and sleeves, the fitting jacket further including a plurality of adjustment features; adjusting one or more of the adjustment features; producing a digital image of the client wearing the fitting jacket; and submitting the digital image to a system app which functions to use image analysis to obtain body measurements for use by a remote tailor.
Claims20
A method of remote tailoring for a client, said method comprising the steps of:
- placing a fitting jacket onto the client, said fitting jacket including a torso and sleeves, said fitting jacket further including a plurality of adjustment features including markers and anchor points, said markers configured for insertion into adjacent said anchor points;
- adjusting one or more of said adjustment features by selecting an anchor point to receive a corresponding said marker so as to provide a proper fit of said fitting jacket on the client;
- producing a digital image of the client wearing said fitting jacket;
- submitting said digital image to a system app, said system app functioning to obtain body measurements of the client by performing an analysis of said digital image to establish positions of said markers on said fitting jacket;
- deriving client body measurements from said analysis of said digital image;
- and
- providing said client body measurements to a remote tailor.
A fitting jacket suitable for use in a remote tailoring method, said fitting jacket comprising:
- a torso having a plurality of markers, a plurality of anchor points, and a first pattern of lines, each said marker configured for attachment to an adjacent said anchor point;
- and
- at least one sleeve attached to said torso, said at least one sleeve including a second pattern of lines distinct from said first pattern of lines.
A remote tailoring system suitable for enabling a client to acquire an item of clothing fabricated by a remote tailor, said system comprising:
- a fitting jacket including a vertically-striped torso, at least one horizontally-striped sleeve, a plurality of torso markers on said torso, and a plurality of torso anchor points on said torso, said fitting jacket when worn by the client having each said torso marker fastened to a corresponding said torso anchor point;
- a wireless communication device for acquiring a digital image of the client wearing said fitting jacket;
- a system computer terminal in communication with said wireless communication device for receiving said digital image of the client wearing said fitting jacket, said system computer terminal including a system app functioning to perform at least one of:
- (i) obtaining fitting jacket measurements when worn by the client by analyzing locations of said torso markers on said fitting jacket, (ii) deriving client body measurements from said analysis of said digital image;
- and (iii) providing said client body measurements to the remote tailor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.