Body-enhancing garment and garment construction
AssigneeVF Corporation
InventorsDarren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, I, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades
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Abstract
Systems or methods for anatomy warping a garment are provided. Anatomy warping is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's seams, pockets, and/or other construction lines and/or details in order to change the perceived shape of a wearer of the garment toward a desired appearance. Additionally, the garments that result from use of these systems and methods for anatomy warping are also provided.
Claims21
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A method for designing an anatomy-warped garment, the method comprising:
- identifying a desired three-dimensional (3-D) body shape;
- converting the desired 3-D body shape into a two-dimensional (2-D) depth map;
- identifying a construction item for a flat garment;
- positioning the construction item on the 2-D depth map of the flat garment;
- adjusting the construction item utilizing a position of the construction item on the 2-D depth map to create a warped construction item;
- creating a 2-D image of the warped construction item using perspective projection;
- and
- forming a garment with the warped construction item based on the 2-D image of the warped construction item.
A method for designing an anatomy-warped garment, the method comprising:
- selecting a feature for anatomy warping;
- determining a desired appearance for the feature;
- determining a construction item for changing a perception of the feature toward the desired appearance based on rules of perception;
- and
- adding the construction item to a garment to form the anatomy-warped garment.
A method for designing an anatomy-warped garment, the method comprising:
- applying a flat grid to or bending the flat grid around a three-dimensional (3-D) body shape based on an actual person and around a desired 3-D body shape of a selected body feature to form two different bent grids;
- positioning a selected construction item over each of the bent grids of the 3-D body shapes to form two different positioned construction items;
- finding curve differences between curves of the two different bent grids at corresponding locations of the two different positioned construction items on each of the bent grids;
- utilizing these determined curve differences to warp the selected construction item at the corresponding grid locations to form a warped construction item;
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- forming a garment utilizing the warped construction item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.