Garment design preview tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12086397-B2
Application number	US-202318338243-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2023
Priority date	Oct 31, 2017
Publication date	Sep 10, 2024
Grant date	Sep 10, 2024

Abstract

A tool 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. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
providing a garment previewing tool that allows previewing on a computer screen of a jeans garment customized by a user with a finishing pattern created using a laser input file by a laser, wherein the garment previewing tool comprises
showing a first garment preview image on the computer screen comprising a jeans base image for a selected garment base,
allowing the user to select a surface pattern, wherein the surface pattern is associated with a laser input file to be used by a laser to produce that surface pattern onto a jeans garment,
showing a second garment preview image on the computer screen comprising the selected surface pattern in combination with the jeans base image, wherein the second garment preview image is generated by
generating an adjusted base image from the jeans base image without the selected surface pattern,
generating a pattern mask based on the laser input file associated with the selected surface pattern, and
for a pixel at a pixel location of the second garment preview image, 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 image and a value of a pixel of the base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the second garment preview image.

2. The method of claim 1 comprising:
for the pixel at the pixel location of the second garment preview image, 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 image 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 image.

3. The method of claim 2 comprising:
combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the second garment preview image, and
displaying the pixel of the second garment preview image as a color on the computer screen, wherein the color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein in the second garment preview image, allowing the user to select the surface pattern and modify a sizing of the surface pattern relative to the jeans base image, wherein as the user makes changes, the modified sizing of the surface pattern is displayed to the user in real time,
in the second garment preview image, allowing the user to select the surface pattern and modify a position of the surface pattern relative to the jeans base image, wherein as the user makes changes, the modified positioning of the surface pattern is displayed to the user in real time, and
showing a third garment preview image on the computer screen comprising the jeans base image and selected surface pattern, with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination.

5. The method of claim 4 comprising:
providing a target pair of jeans corresponding to the jeans garment base selected by the user; and
based on the laser input file associated with the third garment preview image comprising the selected surface pattern with modified sizing or modified positioning, or a combination, using a laser to form the finishing pattern on an outer surface of the target jeans.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein based on the laser input file, the laser removes selected amounts of material from the surface of a material of the target jeans at different pixel locations of the garment, and
for lighter pixel locations of the finishing pattern, a greater amount of an 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.

7. A method comprising:
providing a garment previewing tool that allows previewing on a computer screen of a garment customized by a user with a finishing pattern created using a laser input file by a laser, wherein the garment previewing tool comprises
showing a first garment preview image on the computer screen comprising a base image for a selected garment base,
allowing the user to select a pattern, wherein the pattern is associated with a laser input file,
showing a second garment preview image on the computer screen comprising the selected pattern in combination with the base image, wherein the second garment preview image is generated by
generating an adjusted base image from the base image of the selected garment base,
generating a pattern mask based on the laser input file associated with the selected surface pattern, and
for a pixel at a pixel location of the second garment preview image, 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 image and a value of a pixel of the base image at a base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the second garment preview image.

8. The method of claim 7 comprising:
for the pixel at the pixel location of the second garment preview image, 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 image 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 image.

9. The method of claim 8 comprising:
combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location for the second garment preview image, and
displaying the generated second garment preview image with the pixel at the pixel location on the computer screen, wherein the pixel at the pixel location is displayed as a color corresponding to the combined value for the pixel at the pixel location.

10. The method of claim 7 comprising:
in the second garment preview image, allowing the user to select the pattern and alter a sizing of the pattern relative to the base image, wherein as the user makes changes, the altered sizing of the pattern is displayed to the user in real time,
in the second garment preview image, allowing the user to select the pattern and alter a position of the pattern relative to the base image, wherein as the user makes changes, the altered positioning of the pattern is displayed to the user in real time, and
showing a third garment preview image on the computer screen comprising the base image and selected pattern, with altered sizing or altered positioning, or a combination.

11. The method of claim 10 comprising:
based on the third garment preview image comprising the selected pattern with altered sizing or altered positioning, or a combination, using a laser to form the finishing pattern on an outer surface of a garment that is represented by the third garment preview image.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein a finishing pattern based on the third garment preview image can extend across portions of the garment where two or more fabric panels are joined together by thread by exposing these portions to the laser.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein for portions of the garment exposed to the laser where fabric panels are joined, the fabric panels are joined together using a thread comprising cotton.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein when

Assignees

• Strauss Levi & Co

Inventors

• Schultz Jennifer
• Mahanty Debdulal
• Kuzucu Ozgur Taylan
• Sights James Barton
• Bell Benjamin
• Schultz Christopher

Classifications

• G06T11/10

  Texturing; Colouring; Generation of textures or colours (retouching, inpainting or scratch removal G06T5/77) · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F3/04883

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06Q30/00

  Commerce · CPC title