Garment design and fabric printing system utilizing digitally encoded design cards
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorKia Silverbrook
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Abstract
This patent describes an alternative form for analysing the look of garments and for their creation. A series of cards depicting various clothing garments are input to a camera device for manipulation of a sensed image for outputting on a display device depicting a garment constructed of fabric having characteristics of the sensed image. The camera device reads. the input cards and senses an image and manipulates the image in accordance with a read input card so as to produce the output image. The cards can be used for applying similar manipulations to a different series of garments or different manipulations to the same item of apparel.
Claims10
A garment creation system comprising
- a series of input tokens to be inserted into a camera device, each input token carrying data for distortion of a sensed image;
- a camera device including a reading device for reading said input tokens, the camera device sensing the image and distorting said image in accordance with a read input token so as to produce a distorted output image, the camera device including a connecting means for connection to, and communication with, a garment fabric printer for printing said output image on fabric passing through said printer;
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- a printing means, incorporated in the camera device, for printing on print media contained in the camera device, a picture of a person wearing an item of clothing, the item of clothing carrying, as a decorative pattern applied thereto, the distorted image to enable a user to assess the effect of applying said distorted image as a pattern to the item of clothing.
A garment creation system which includes
- an image sensing means for sensing an image;
- an image distorting means to which the image sensing means is responsive for distorting the image sensed by the image sensing means and for causing the image sensing means to generate a distorted output image;
- a fabric printing means in communication with the image sensing means for printing at least one garment piece at a time on a bolt of fabric, said at least one garment piece containing at least a part of said output image;
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- a printing means, incorporated in the image distorting means, for printing on print media contained in the image distorting means, a picture of a person wearing an item of cloth the item of clothing carrying as a decorative pattern applied thereto, the distorted image to enable a user to assess the effect of applying said distorted image as a pattern to the item of clothing.
A garment creation system comprising:
- a camera device that includes;
- image sensing means for capturing a real image in a digital format;
- a reading device for reading an input token, the input token carrying data for distortion of the captured image;
- image manipulation means for distorting the captured image at least partly in reliance upon the data;
- connecting means in communication with a fabric printer for printing said output image on fabric passing through said printer;
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- a printer configured to print on print media, contained in the camera device, a picture of a person wearing an item of clothing, the item of clothing caring, as a decorative pattern applied thereto, the distorted image to enable a user to assess the effect of applying said distorted image as a pattern to the item of clothing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.