On demand apparel panel cutting

• Main Authors: Barnet, Aaron Takayanagi, Wilson, James Richard, Liang, Nancy Yi, Aminpour, Rouzbeh Safavi, Mata, Javier Govea, Alexander, Adam N
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.10.2020
• Subjects: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING,CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING; HAND CUTTING TOOLS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SEVERING; TRANSPORTING

Aspects of on demand apparel manufacturing are described. A system of on demand apparel manufacturing includes a textile cutter and a computing device. The computing device is configured to perform a process including capturing an image of a textile sheet on the textile cutter, where the textile sheet includes a panel for a product. The process further includes identifying cut control factors using the image of the textile sheet, to account for a textile thread, weave, nap, or knit pattern of the textile sheet, a textile print pattern alignment on the textile sheet, or panel deformation of the textile sheet on the textile cutter. The process also includes generating cut control instructions to cut the textile sheet based in part on the image and the cut control factors, and instructing the textile cutter to cut the panel out from the textile sheet based in part on the cut control instructions.