US 8,813,378 B2 · System and method for drafting garment patterns from photographs and style drawings

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for drafting garment patterns from body photographs and garment style drawings as well as for creating adjustable pattern style drawings and for drafting garment patterns from the pattern style drawings. The garment patterns are adjusted by measurements obtained from photographs and selected body part circumferences of the user for whom the garment pattern is intended. After obtaining the measurement the system preferably automatically make such adjustments. The system includes a content generation side which creates pattern styles of garments and provides such pattern styles to an online store. The system also includes a user-side through which a user generates a user body outline and interacts with the online store to access such pattern style drawings for use in association with the body outline to draft garment patterns that are fully customized to the user.

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A method of drafting garment patterns, comprising:

a) obtaining two-dimensional photographic images of a subject having a body;
b) generating a subject body outline in software from the photographic images, the subject body outline having scaled dimensions corresponding to the body of the subject and upon which measurements can be made;
c) acquiring access to a style drawing, the style drawing being a line representation of at least a portion of a garment and having boundary lines defined by parametric constraints;
d) aligning the style drawing relative to the subject body outline;
e) adjusting the boundaries of the style drawing relative to the subject body outline;
f) providing a pattern associated with the style drawing;
and
g) automatically drafting a garment pattern to fit the subject corresponding at least in part on the adjustments to the boundaries of the style drawing, the pattern printed or printable on flexible sheet material and including indicia indicating the cuts required for making a garment that corresponds to the style drawing and which fits the subject.

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A method of drafting a garment pattern, comprising:

a) obtaining two-dimensional photographic images of a subject having a body, including,
(i) marking the subject's body,
(ii) positioning the subject at a reference location,
(iii) taking two-dimensional photographic images of the subject's body from each of a front view, back view, left view, and right view, and
(iv) associating a reference measurement in at least one of the photographic images so that the photographic images can be scaled in size to the subject;
b) manipulating the photographic images, including,
(i) scaling the photographic images in size to the subject, and
(ii) from the edges of the subject's body in the photographic images, generating a subject body outline;
c) generating body part multipliers for each of selected body parts, said selected body parts including a neck, bust, waist, hip, thigh, and bicep, said generating including,
(i) taking circumferential measurements of the selected body parts;
and
(ii) for each selected body part, calculating a respective body part multiplier for the body part, the body part multiplier calculated as the circumferential measurement of the subject body part divided by a combination of a width of the subject body part and a depth of subject body part, the width and depth of the subject body part measured on the body outline,
d) browsing a plurality of garment pattern styles, each pattern style having a style drawing and an associated pattern;
e) acquiring access to a style drawing and its associated pattern of one of said plurality of pattern styles;
f) registering the style drawing in correct location over the subject body outline;
g) adjusting the boundaries of the style drawing relative to the subject body outline using parametric constraints;
h) calculating a plurality of pattern circumferences relative to associated width and depths along the style drawing using the body part multipliers;
and
i) based on adjustments to the boundaries of the style drawing, automatically drafting the pattern, the pattern printed or printable on flexible sheet material and including indicia indicating the cuts required for making a garment that corresponds to the style drawing and which fits the subject.

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A method of drafting a garment pattern, comprising:

a) obtaining two-dimensional photographic images of a subject having a body, including,
(i) marking the body of the subject,
(ii) positioning the subject at a reference location,
(iii) taking photographic images of the body of the subject from each of a front view, back view, left view, and right view, and
(iv) associating a reference measurement in a photographic image so that the photographic images can be scaled in size to the subject,
(v) scaling the photographic images in size to the subject;
b) defining a body outline relative to the photographic images, the body outline having scaled dimensions corresponding to the body of the subject and upon which measurements can be made;
c) providing a style drawing of a garment on the body outline, the style drawings having an edge;
and
d) drafting a garment pattern from both the style drawing and at least one of the following additional drafting steps of,
(i) calculating at least one of a circumference of the pattern at a selected level on the pattern and a side seam placement at a selected level on the pattern, said calculating including,
(A) taking a circumferential measurement of a selected body part including the selected level, the selected body part including at least one of a neck, a bust, a waist, a hip, a thigh, and a bicep,
(B) measuring a width and a depth of the selected body part on the body outline,
(C) calculating a body part multiplier for the selected body part, the body part multiplier calculated as the circumferential measurement of the selected body part divided by a combination of the width of the selected body part and the depth of the selected body part, and
(D) using the body part multiplier along with a width and a depth of the style drawing at the selected level to calculate the circumference of the pattern at the selected level or a related level,
(ii) calculating a waist dart or intake of the pattern about the narrowest circumference of the pattern based on its relative percentage of a total measured horizontal indent distance for all the intakes as measured on the style drawing from a widest point to a narrowest point,
(iii) calculating a waist dart or intake of the pattern along a perpendicular from an imaginary construction line to a waist line on the body outline, the imaginary construction line being a straight extension of an edge of the style drawing below a start of a hip-abdomen curve on the body outline,
(iv) calculating a non-waist dart of the pattern as a difference between two lengths measured on at least one of the body outline and the style drawing,
(v) measuring a sleeve cap height of the pattern along an edge of one of the front view of the body outline or the front view of the style drawing,
(vi) measuring a vertical length for the pattern on at least one of the body outline and the style drawing, the vertical length situated below a bust level and measured on at least one of the body outline and the style drawings as a vertical depth on a true vertical,
(vii) measuring a length measurement for the pattern between two points of interest on at least one of the body outline and the style drawing, said length measurement situated above a bust level and measured along a longest line of the at least one of the body outline and the style drawing between said two points of interest,
(viii) measuring a width of the pattern, said width not extending past boundary points along any one of the front, back, left or right views of the body outline or style drawing directly on the one of the front, back, left, or right view of one of the body outline and the style drawing,
(ix) estimating measurements on the pattern using known relationships for a simple geometric shape, to which both (A) a width at a vertical height of one of a front and back view of one of the body outline and the style drawing, and (B) a depth at the vertical height from a side view of one of the body outline and the style drawing can be related,
(x) measuring on the side view from an inseam at a crotch line to a pant style outline at a hip level to calculate a rise angle and a rise length of a pant pattern, and
(xi) tracing shapes directly on one of the photographic images and the body outline, adjusting the pattern to the traced shape, said adjusting including one of expanding and contracting the traced shape to match a width or length measured or estimated relative to the body outline, and using the expanded or contracted shape to form at least part of the pattern.

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