Creating three-dimensional apparel imagery in an apparel design system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11352739-B2
Application number	US-201916288046-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2019
Priority date	Feb 27, 2018
Publication date	Jun 7, 2022
Grant date	Jun 7, 2022

Abstract

A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. The user's preview may be based upon a two-dimensional image of a wear pattern in a laser input file and, from a set of two-dimensional images of a base garment, create a three-dimensional view of the base garment with the wear pattern.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
providing a garment previewing tool that allows previewing on a computer screen of a selected garment base customized by a user with a finishing pattern created using a laser input file by a laser, wherein the garment previewing tool includes
providing an option for the user to select the garment base and upon the user's selection, showing a first garment preview imagery on the computer screen comprising a jeans base image for the selected garment base,
providing an option for the user to select a wear pattern from a menu of wear patterns, wherein each wear pattern is associated with a laser input file to be used by a laser to produce that wear pattern onto a jeans garment,
showing a second garment preview imagery on the computer screen comprising the selected wear pattern in combination with the jeans base image, wherein the second garment preview imagery replaces the first garment preview image,
the second garment preview imagery is generated comprising
generating an adjusted base image from the jeans base image without the selected wear pattern,
generating a pattern mask based on the laser input file associated with the selected wear pattern,
for a pixel at a pixel location of the second garment preview imagery, obtaining a first contribution by combining a first value associated with a pixel of the pattern mask at a pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the second garment preview imagery and a value of a pixel of the jeans base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the second garment preview imagery,
for the pixel at the pixel location of the second garment preview imagery, obtaining a second contribution by combining a second value associated with the pixel of the pattern mask at the pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the second garment preview imagery and a value of a pixel of the adjusted base image at an adjusted base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the second garment preview imagery,
combining the first contribution and the second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the second garment preview imagery, and
updating for display the pixel of the second garment preview imagery as a color on the computer screen, wherein the color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value,
in the second garment preview imagery, allowing the user to select the wear pattern and modify a position or sizing of the wear pattern relative to the jeans base image, wherein as the user makes changes, the modified positioning or sizing of the wear pattern is displayed to the user in response to selecting and modifying the position or sizing of the wear pattern, and
after allowing the user to select the wear pattern and modify a position or sizing of the wear pattern relative to the jeans base image, generating a third garment preview imagery of the selected garment base with the selected wear pattern comprising
receiving a set of images of the selected garment base, without a wear pattern, wherein the set of images comprises a plurality of two-dimensional images of the selected garment base,
receiving a two-dimensional wear pattern image associated with the selected wear pattern, and
generating a three-dimensional preview of the selected garment base with the selected wear pattern applied onto the surface of the selected garment base using the set of images of the selected garment base and the two-dimensional wear pattern image with the modified positioning or sizing of the selected wear pattern;
providing a target garment corresponding to the garment base selected by the user; and
based on a laser input file associated with a selected wear pattern with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination, using a laser to create a finishing pattern on an outer surface of the target garment.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the garment previewing tool includes
in response to selecting the wear pattern, generating the second garment preview imagery of the selected garment base with the selected wear pattern comprising generating another three-dimensional preview of the selected garment base with the selected wear pattern applied onto the surface of the selected garment base using the set of images of the selected garment base and the two-dimensional wear pattern image, wherein the second garment preview imagery comprises the selected wear pattern in a different sizing or positioning than the third garment preview imagery.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the third garment preview imagery is stored as a Graphics Interchange Format image.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the garment previewing tool includes allowing the user to see multiple views of the third garment preview imagery at different angles.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the garment previewing tool includes:
providing an option for the user to select another wear pattern from the menu of wear patterns,
showing a fourth garment preview imagery on the computer screen comprising the other selected wear pattern in combination with the jeans base image,
in the fourth garment preview imagery, allowing the user to select the other wear pattern and modify a position or sizing of the other wear pattern relative to the jeans base image, wherein as the user makes changes, the modified positioning or sizing of the other wear pattern is displayed to the user in response to selecting and modifying the position or sizing of the other wear pattern, and
in response to modifying the position or sizing of the selected other wear pattern, generating a fifth garment preview imagery of the selected garment base with the selected other wear pattern comprising
receiving the set of images of the selected garment base, without a wear pattern,
receiving another two-dimensional wear pattern image associated with the other selected wear pattern, and
generating a three-dimensional preview of the selected garment base with the selected other wear pattern applied onto the surface of the selected garment base using the set of images of the selected garment base and the other two-dimensional wear pattern image with the modified positioning or sizing of the selected other wear pattern,
showing the fifth garment preview imagery on the computer screen comprising the jeans base image and selected other wear pattern, with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising a method of manufacturing the target garment comprising
assembling the target garment from fabric panels of a woven first material comprising a warp comprising indigo ring-dyed cotton yarn, wherein the fabric panels are sewn together using thread.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein based on the laser input file, the laser removes selected amounts of material from the surface of a material of the target garment at different pixel locations of the garment, and
for lighter pixel locations of the finishing pattern, a greater amount of the indigo ring-dyed cotton warp yarn is removed, while for darker pixel locations of the finishing pattern, a lesser amount of the indigo ring-dyed cotton warp yarn is removed.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein when using the laser to create a finishing pattern, different laser levels are obtained by varying an output of the laser beam by altering a characteristic of the laser comprising at least one of a frequency, period, pulse width, power, duty cycle, or burning speed.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the target garment is made of at least one of a twill material or a cotton twill material.

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Assignees

• Strauss Levi & Co

Inventors

• Bell Benjamin
• Schultz Christopher
• Schultz Jennifer
• Mahanty Debdulal

Classifications

• G06Q30/0621

  by configuring or customising goods or services · CPC title

• G06F2113/12

  Cloth · CPC title

• G05B2219/35012

  Cad cam · CPC title

• D06M10/005 Primary

  Laser beam treatment · CPC title

• G06T2210/16

  Cloth · CPC title