Look-up table method for custom fitting of apparel

• US 7,623,938 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2006
• Issued: 11/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thirdlove.com
• Original Assignee: Archetype Solutions
• Inventors: Curcio, Matthew, Holloway, Robert, Plummer, Daniel, Luhnow, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Welch; Gary L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Durham; Nathan E
• Application Number:
  US11/337,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,401 Days
• Field of Search: 700/130, 700/131, 700/132, 30/2.R, 705/26, 705/27, 33/2.R
• US Class Current: 700/132
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 1/00 Measuring aids or methods
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 3/007 Methods of drafting or marking-out patterns using computers computer-aided design G06F30/00

Abstract

We disclose and claim a method for custom fitting an article to a human being or animal comprising, selecting on the basis of body information about said human being or animal a subset of entries from a database populated with entries, wherein said entries comprise data from which said article is designed. We also disclose and claim a method for custom fitting an article to a human being or animal comprising, obtaining body information about said human being or animal, populating a database with entries comprising data about other individual human beings or animals selected from the group consisting of body dimensions and body information, selecting a subset of entries from said database on the basis of said body information about said human being or animal, and designing said article on the basis of said subset of entries. We also disclose and claim a system for custom fitting an article to a human being or animal comprising, a means for obtaining body information about said human being or animal, a means for populating a database with entries comprising data about other individual human beings or animals selected from the group consisting of body dimensions and body information, a means for selecting a subset of entries from said database on the basis of said body information about said human being or animal, and a means for designing said article on the basis of said subset of entries. We also disclose and claim a custom fitted article for a human being or animal, wherein said article is designed on the basis of a subset of entries from a database, wherein said database is populated with entries comprising data about other individual human beings or animals selected from the group consisting of body dimensions and body information, and wherein said subset is selected on the basis of body information about said human being or animal.

Claims

1. A method for custom fitting a clothing article for a being, comprising:

a) receiving body dimensions of said being;

b) accessing a database populated with information about other beings, the information for each of the other beings including at least one of body dimensions and clothing article dimensions;

c) selecting a model being from the other beings based on the body dimensions of said being and body dimensions of the other beings, when no other being has body dimensions within a first predetermined proximity to said being, identifying a subset of other beings having body dimensions within an expanded, second predetermined proximity to the body dimensions of said being; and

d) designing said clothing article based on at least one of the body dimensions of the model being and the clothing article dimensions of the model being.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

e) creating information for a new other being, including at least one of body dimensions and clothing article dimensions interpolated from the subset of other beings.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

f) storing in the database, information for the new other being, including at least two of the following;

the body dimensions of said being, interpolated body dimensions that are not known for said being, and the interpolated clothing article dimensions.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

g) assigning the information for the new other being a reliability index below a predetermined threshold.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

h) increasing the reliability index of the information for the new other being above the predetermined threshold based on input about a fit of said clothing article.

6. A method for custom fitting a clothing article for a being, comprising:

a) receiving body dimensions of said being;

b) accessing a database populated with information about other beings, the information for each of the other beings including at least one of body dimensions and clothing article dimensions, wherein, for information on an other being stored in the database, the total number of clothing article dimensions are greater than the total number of body dimensions;

c) selecting a model being from the other beings based on the body dimensions of said being and body dimensions of the other beings; and

d) designing said clothing article based on at least one of the body dimensions of the model being and the clothing article dimensions of the model being.