System and method for capturing design state of apparel or accessory to enable extrapolation for style and size variants

• US 9,661,886 B1
• Filed: 09/15/2016
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: vPersonalize Inc.
• Original Assignee: vPersonalize Inc.
• Inventors: Selvarajan, Balamurugan
• Primary Examiner(s): DURHAM, NATHAN E
• Application Number:
  US15/266,922
• Time in Patent Office: 257 Days
• Field of Search: 700130-133
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 3/007 Methods of drafting or marking-out patterns using computers computer-aided design G06F30/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 17/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4097 characterised by using design data to control NC machines, e.g. CAD/CAM G05B19/4093 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32359 Modeling, simulating assembly operations
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45196 Textile, embroidery, stitching machine

Abstract

This invention outlines a novel method for capturing the “state” of an intended design on an apparel pattern, and subsequently transforming that “state” to a new style or size and then applying that modified “state” to automatically recreate the original design, but for the new style or size. This invention captures the “state” of a design as a mathematical function, rather than the design itself and then applies a series of transformations to that “state” to map it to a new style. The system and method enables designers to seamlessly extrapolate designs across apparels and accessories of various sizes and styles. The automated system and method obviates the need for creating individual designs for each style or size, while ensuring that the transformed designs retain their visual characteristics even upon extrapolation.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and executed on a computing device comprising a hardware processor and memory for capturing a design status or condition corresponding to a design pattern embedded on a garment pattern or component and transforming captured design status or condition to incorporate dimensional or shape variations thereto, the method comprising the steps:

identifying a design status or condition of a design representing one or more design patterns embedded on the garment component, and wherein the design status or condition of the design comprises at least an original height and original width of the one or more design patterns, and a first coordinate pair indicating a center point of the one or more design patterns;

identifying an original height and an original width of the garment component, and further identifying an alteration height and alteration width corresponding to the garment component;

calculating a scale factor, based at least on the original height, original width, alteration height and alteration width corresponding to the garment component;

calculating a plurality of translation factors, based at least on the original height, original width, alteration height, alteration width corresponding to the garment component and the scale factor;

providing at least the scale factor and the plurality of translation factors as inputs to the computing device through an input device/interface for an affine transformation operation, and executing the affine transformation operation on the design status or condition of the design;

wherein the affine transformation is performed to modify and reposition each of the original design patterns to the altered width, height and position of the garment component.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of identifying the design status or condition of the design representing the one or more design patterns, further includes the step of identifying at least colors included in the one or more design patterns, a textual data embedded on the one or more design patterns, an order of arrangement of the textual data and colors, and a font corresponding to the textual data.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of modifying the original height and original width of the one or more design patterns in accordance with the scale factor, further includes the following steps:

changing the original height and the original width based on the scale factor;

repositioning the first coordinate pair, in accordance with the scale factor;

computing an alteration height and alteration width corresponding to the one or more design patterns, based on the original height and original width of the one or more design patterns, and the scale factor; and

generating a modified design pattern based on the computed alteration height and alteration width corresponding to the one or more design patterns as a characteristic of the design status or condition representative of the one or more design patterns.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the scale factor further includes the following steps:

calculating a first quotient by performing a division operation with the computing device, and wherein the first quotient is computed by dividing the alteration width by original width;

calculating a second quotient by performing a division operation with the computing device, and wherein the second quotient is computed by dividing the alteration height by original height;

comparing the first quotient with the second quotient, and wherein the first quotient is selected as the scale factor only when the first quotient is greater than the second quotient, and wherein the second quotient is selected as the scale factor only when the second quotient is greater than the first quotient.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the translation factors, further includes the following steps:

calculating a first translation factor indicative of the affine transformation of the one or more design patterns in terms of width, based on at least the original width of the one or more design patterns, alteration width corresponding to the one or more design patterns and the scale factor; and

calculating a second translation factor indicative of the affine transformation of the one or more design patterns in terms of height, based on at least the original height of the one or more design patterns, alteration height corresponding to the one or more design patterns and the scale factor; and

wherein the first translation or second translation is used for the affine transformation of the one or more designs accordingly when a first quotient or a second quotient is selected as the scale factor.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of identifying the design status or condition of the design is performed independently, with the identification of the scale factor, translation factors and the execution of the affine transformation on the design status or condition of the design being done at a different point in time, on the same or on a different computing device.