System and method for custom-made clothing
OwnerJohn S. Watanabeinventor
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Abstract
A garment facility produces custom-made garments according to the body contour and the fit preferences of a customer. Try-on garments for various styles of garments are presented to customers for selection. The tailor will retrieve the one or more base patterns associated with the try-on garment. The pieces of the base patterns are marked and modified according to both the body contour and the fit preferences of a customer and connected as sample garment for try-on. The marked pieces are recorded and sent to a cutting machine as digital data. Multiple try-on garments can be combined to form new sample garments. A favorite garment of the customer can be recorded as digital data to re-produce the custom-made garments.
Claims60
A system for producing a custom-made garment for a customer, comprising:
- a base pattern capable of accepting mark lines indicating how the base pattern is connected with other base patterns in accordance with preferences expressed by the customer, the base pattern further capable of being connected to the other base patterns to comprise a style of a type of garment;
- a scanning system for producing an image of the marked base pattern;
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- a computer system that receives the image of the marked base pattern from the scanning system, determines the locations of the mark lines therefrom, and generates specification data from the image.
A method of producing a custom-made garment for a customer, comprising:
- preparing a base pattern;
- placing mark lines on the base pattern indicating how the base pattern is connected with other base patterns in accordance with preferences expressed by the customer, the base pattern further capable of being connected to the other base patterns to comprise a style of a type of garment;
- scanning an image of the base pattern;
- determining the locations of the mark lines on the base pattern;
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- generating specification data from the image.
A method of producing a custom-made garment using facilities at first and second different sites that communicate using a teleconferencing system, comprising:
- capturing and transmitting an image of a customer trying on a garment at the first site;
- displaying at the second site the image of the customer;
- identifying one or more base patterns associated with the garment at both the first and second sites;
- marking certain of the base patterns in accordance with preferences of the customer;
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- modifying and connecting the marked base patterns to create a sample of the custom-made garment for the customer.
A method of producing a custom-made garment for a customer, comprising:
- allowing the customer to select a try-on garment;
- retrieving one or more base patterns comprising the try-on garment, each base pattern including a point of origin and reference lines;
- marking the base patterns in accordance with the body contour and fit preferences of the customer;
- modifying the base patterns in accordance with the markings;
- connecting together the modified base patterns to form a sample of the custom-made garment;
- recording images of the marked base patterns as digital data;
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- determining locations of the markings with respect to the point of origin of the base patterns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.