Garment fit portrayal system and method

• Main Authors: WOLPER ANDRE E, IDSINGA ANDREW S, HAULIN ISABELLE, BORSHUKOV GEORGE D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.12.2010
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; APPLIANCES OR METHODS FOR MAKING CLOTHES, e.g. FORDRESS-MAKING, FOR TAILORING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; SEALS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; WEARING APPAREL

An on-line garment fit portrayal system configured to operate on a specialized server linked over the internet or any network using standard web services to at least one web-enabled player device capable of common image format display is described. The system comprises a server-side garment model storage capability containing one or more garments, with parameters for each garment chosen from the groupings that include a garment piece parts list, piece spatial properties, piece mechanical parameters, piece optical parameters, and assembly information; a server-side modeler mechanism configured for generating a three-dimensional model of a subject's body from individual body data, the model being represented by body data stored in a body model storage capability; a server-side simulator mechanism operatively coupled with the garment model storage capability and the body model storage capability for simulating a three-dimensional form fit of a garment represented in the garment model storage capability onto a body represented in the body model storage capability, the simulator mechanism producing a portrayal subject model; and a server-side rendering mechanism operatively coupled with the simulator mechanism for portraying a perspective view on any web-enabled device's display screen of the portrayal subject model representing a three-dimensional form fit of the garment on the subject's body.