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US 8,364,561 B2Granted
Garment digitization system and method
AssigneeEmbodee Corp.
InventorsAndre E. Wolper, Isabelle Haulin, George D. Borshukov, Sina Maximillian Wolper
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Abstract
A garment digitization system configured to determine physical attributes for any given garment including dimensional and spatial properties, mechanical attributes, optical attributes, and assembly information; a mechanism configured to take those properties and attributes and generating a digital three-dimensional model thereof; a mechanism to make such digital three-dimensional garment models available to others; and a mechanism operatively coupled with a local or remote display providing views of said digital garment.
Claims15
A garment digitization system configured to operate on either or both of a desktop computer system and a specialized internet server computer linked over a network to at least one web-enabled device, said computer or combination of computers forming a system comprising:
- a capture apparatus including one or both of a camera and an image scanner, and further configured, when executed by suitable circuitry of a computing device, to process a physical garment sample into a digital representation thereof, the digital representation consisting of two-dimensional contours from a flat state of each panel of said garment sample;
- a three-dimensional template generation and storage mechanism configured, when executed on a desktop or server-based computer, to produce and store generalized three-dimensional templates reflecting the two-dimensional panel contours of garments that have been processed into panels, each template including a grouping of panels that are oriented, in virtual three-dimensional space, with their connections vis-a-vis each other defined, and each panel having default mechanical attributes thereof defined;
- a template transformation mechanism configured, when executed on a desktop or server-based, computer, to select a stored generalized three-dimensional template of a garment style that closely matches a style of a digital representation of a particular digitally captured garment sample, and further configured to transform the generalized template into a copy of the particular garment sample, wherein each panel within the copy assumes the precise dimensions of the particular garment sample;
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- a drape simulation mechanism configured on a desktop or server-based computer operatively coupled with the capture apparatus, the three-dimensional template generation and storage mechanism, and the template transformation mechanism, the drape simulation mechanism further configured to simulate a three-dimensional form fit of a garment sample onto a body represented in the simulator mechanism, the drape simulation mechanism configured to produce a representative drape of the garment sample, and the simulator mechanism further compiling the resultant representative drape together with the garment sample's mechanical and optical attributes into a digital instance of the garment sample suitable for further use.
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A method for garment digitization providing a digital instance of one or more physical real-world garment samples, the method comprising:
- providing one or more proprietary computers each including one or more processors configured to execute machine-readable instructions thereon, the one or more computers being operatively connected to the Internet;
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- providing machine-readable instructions on the one or more computers, the instructions being specially configured, when executed in one or more processors on the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform garment digitization and simulation operations comprising:
- a) processing garment sample data from a physical garment sample into optical attribute data including a Color Bitmap, and two-dimensional contours thereof:
- b) identifying, from among plural garment templates stored in a template database, a garment template that closely matches a garment style of the physical garment sample;
- c) processing two-dimensional contour data of the selected garment template into three-dimensional geometric shapes approximating the original form of the physical garment sample;
- d) simulating a fit of three-dimensional garment geometry on a three-dimensional body model resident within the simulator into one or more digital three-dimensional garment geometry models with their drape expressed;
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- e) compiling the one or more three-dimensional garment geometry models together with data including one or more of optical attribute data and mechanical attribute data into a set of data constituting the digital instance of one or more garment samples for use in future renderings of garment portrayals.
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An on-line digital garment server comprising:
- a server-side application software program stored on a non-transitory data storage medium of the server and including machine-readable instructions configured, when executed by data processing circuitry of the server, to cause the server to perform specialized digital garment processing actions, the instructions including:
- a) instructions for processing garment sample data from a physical garment sample into optical attribute data including a Color Bitmap, and two-dimensional contours thereof;
- b) instructions for identifying, from among plural garment templates stored in a template database, a garment template that closely matches a garment style of the physical garment sample;
- c) instructions for processing two-dimensional contour data of the selected garment template into three-dimensional geometric shapes approximating the original form of the physical garment sample;
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- d) instructions for simulating a fit of three-dimensional garment geometry on a three-dimensional body model resident within the simulator into one or more digital three-dimensional garment geometry models with their drape expressed;
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- e) instructions for compiling the one or more three-dimensional garment geometry models together with data including one or more of optical attribute data and mechanical attribute data into a set of data constituting the digital instance of one or more garment samples for use in future renderings of garment portrayals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.