Body-enhancing garment and garment design
AssigneeVF Corporation
InventorsDarren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades
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Abstract
Systems or methods for anatomy patterning a garment are provided. Anatomy patterning is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's pattern 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 patterning are also provided.
Claims20
A body-enhancing garment, the body-enhancing garment comprising:
- a front side;
- a rear side, the rear side opposite the front side;
- an adjusted pattern displayed on at least one of the front side and the rear side,
- wherein the adjusted pattern is manipulated around a first feature of a wearer to change a perceived shape of the first feature of the wearer toward a desired first feature shape.
A method for designing a body-enhancing garment, the method comprising:
- identifying a desired 3-D body shape;
- identifying a flat pattern for a garment;
- adjusting the flat pattern based on the desired 3-D body shape and a selected shaping effect to create an adjusted pattern;
- creating a 2D image of the adjusted pattern;
- and
- applying the adjusted pattern to the garment based on the 2D image of the adjusted pattern to form the body-enhancing garment.
A method for designing a body-enhancing garment, the method comprising:
- applying a flat grid to or bending the flat grid around an actual 3-D body shape and around a desired 3-D body shape of a selected body feature to form two different bent grids;
- positioning a selected pattern over each of the grids;
- finding curve differences between grid positions of the two different bent grids at corresponding locations of the positioned selected pattern on each of the grids;
- and
- utilizing these determined curve differences to adjust the selected pattern at the corresponding grid locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.