U.S. patent application number 12/238336 was filed with the patent office on 2009-01-15 for reconfigurable garment definition and production method.
Invention is credited to Dennis S. Fernandez.
Application Number | 20090018691 12/238336 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 34435865 |
Filed Date | 2009-01-15 |
United States Patent
Application |
20090018691 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Fernandez; Dennis S. |
January 15, 2009 |
Reconfigurable Garment Definition and Production Method
Abstract
Computer-aided design and manufacture software and hardware
automate garment and fashion definition and production.
Configurable garment includes ornamental element, pattern display,
and personal identifier and wireless sensor electronics.
Inventors: |
Fernandez; Dennis S.;
(Atherton, CA) |
Correspondence
Address: |
FERNANDEZ & ASSOCIATES LLP
1047 EL CAMINO REAL, SUITE 201
MENLO PARK
CA
94025
US
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Family ID: |
34435865 |
Appl. No.: |
12/238336 |
Filed: |
September 25, 2008 |
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11027819 |
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Current U.S.
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700/118 ;
340/573.1; 700/132 |
Current CPC
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G06F 30/00 20200101;
Y02T 10/82 20130101; A61B 5/02 20130101; A61B 2017/00084 20130101;
A61B 5/0816 20130101; A41D 1/002 20130101; A61B 5/0002 20130101;
A61B 2017/00212 20130101; A61B 5/6804 20130101; Y10S 2/905
20130101; A61B 5/024 20130101; A61B 2017/00017 20130101; A41H 3/007
20130101; G06Q 30/0601 20130101 |
Class at
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700/118 ;
700/132; 340/573.1 |
International
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G06F 19/00 20060101
G06F019/00; G08B 23/00 20060101 G08B023/00 |
Claims
1. User interface appliance for reconfigurable garment
definition/production comprising: a display device comprising
command, design template, fabric category, and 3-D body profile; a
user device comprising user control device, and smart changing
room; a networking interface for coupling to a user, design,
manufacturing, and database; and a processor/memory coupled to the
display device, user device, and networking interface to enable
reconfigurable garment definition or production.
2. Appliance of claim 1 wherein the processor/memory is user-
reconfigured for garment reconfiguration.
3. Reconfigurable garment definition/production method comprising
steps: defining a reconfigurable garment definition; verifying the
reconfigurable garment definition; assembling a reconfigurable
garment according to the reconfigurable garment definition; and
testing the reconfigurable garment.
4. Method of claim 3 further comprising step: modifying the
reconfigurable garment definition to re-assemble a reconfigured
garment.
5. Reconfigurable garment comprising: an ornament; an
identifier/sensor; a pattern display; a power source; and a network
interface coupled to the ornament, identifier/sensor, pattern
display, and power source.
6. Garment of claim 5 wherein user access to the network interface
enables garment reconfiguration.
Description
CROSS REFERENCE
[0001] This is a continuation application of the pending U.S.
application Ser. No. 11/027,819 filed on Dec. 29, 2004.
FIELD OF INVENTION
[0002] Invention relates to computer-assisted methods and systems
for novel garment design and manufacture, particularly automated
using software, databases and related electronic networks and
sensors.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
[0003] Conventional fashion industry employs various creative
manual processes to design and produce new clothes. However
conventional techniques are limited to the extent that garment
design and production processes are not easily customized,
time-constrained, and are not easily reconfigurable. For example,
customer has to wait at cashier, try various kinds of clothes in a
changing room, take a lot of measurements, inaccurately customize
the garment, or buy standardized garment to speed-up the purchasing
process.
[0004] Accordingly, there is a need for improved definition and
production efficiency by using some electronic automation
techniques, for example, to assist prototype design, garment
customization, and garment grading. Furthermore to increase
customer satisfaction guarantee of manufactured garment, novel
computer-aided methods for customers to input their body-profile
information and view their appearance with designed garment are
presented unobviously herein.
SUMMARY
[0005] Computer-aided design and manufacture software and/or
hardware automates garment and fashion definition and production.
Configurable garment and fashion system includes ornamental
element, pattern display, and personal identifier and wireless
sensor electronics, effectively integrating the business world of
fashion and consumer electronics.
[0006] Computer-supported process especially configured for user
easily to design reconfigurable apparel, input body-profile
information, input assembly and test preferences, receive and give
recommendation whether the garment fits the body profile to assist
user in making a purchasing decision. Information resulting from
the process can be protected and are accessible by pre-determined
user.
[0007] Optionally fabric or garment with integrated flexible
information infrastructure and electrode/sensors, methods of
representing customer body-profile information in various formats,
and methods for assisting a customer to select properly-sized
apparel may be used herein.
[0008] Generally electronic process assists customer directly to
design customized garment with help of either human or computer
fashion advisor. Thus invention resembles virtual store with a
fashion advisor. User can confidently design and purchase garment
conveniently.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES
[0009] The accompanying drawings which are incorporated in and form
a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the
invention and together with the description, serve to explain the
principles of the invention:
[0010] FIG. 1 is a diagram representing a simplified configurable
garment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
[0011] FIG. 2 is a generalized diagram of network system according
to an embodiment of the present invention.
[0012] FIG. 3 is a diagram showing appliance system according to an
embodiment of the present invention.
[0013] FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating novel garment and
fashion design and manufacturing process according to an embodiment
of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0014] Reference is made in detail to the preferred embodiments of
the invention. While the invention is described in conjunction with
the preferred embodiments, the invention is not intended to be
limited by these preferred embodiments. On the contrary, the
invention is intended to cover alternatives, modifications and
equivalents, which may be included within the spirit and scope of
the invention as defined by the appended claims. Furthermore, in
the following detailed description of the invention, numerous
specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough
understanding of the invention. However, the invention may be
practiced without these specific details. In other instances,
various garments, design or manufacturing methods, automated
procedures, reconfigurable components, software or database
applications, network systems, and electronic or optical circuits
have not been described in detail so that aspects of the invention
will not be obscured.
[0015] FIG. 1 is a simplified diagram showing representative
configurable garment 100 according to an embodiment of the present
invention. As understood herein, the term "garment" is interpreted
and construed broadly to mean any wearable item and/or accessory,
such as shirt, pant, jean, slack, shorts, skirt, khaki, glasses,
shoes, scarf, jacket, tie, belt, socks, wallet, umbrella, etc.
Garment may be knitted, molded, photolithographically deposited or
constructed using one or more masking or implanting steps or
otherwise made using one or more organic, synthetic, conductive,
semiconductive or insulated filament, fabric, fibres, polymers,
carbon nano-fibers, pentacene, thin-film transistors, semiconductor
substrate, etc.
[0016] Garment 100 comprises one or more active or passive, smart
or intelligent, personalizable, tailorable, programmable or
configurable electronic, mechanical or optical logic device or
finite state machine, gate array, cross-bar, transmission-line,
antenna, multiplexer, demultiplexer, modulator, amplifier,
analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog converter, interconnect,
microprocessor, controller, thermostat, thermometer, sensor,
transponder, radio-frequency identifier or tag (RFID),
accelerometer, piezoelectric detector, transistor, diode, resistor,
capacitor, inductor, switch, latch, flip-flop, such as ornament or
jewelry 101, user identifier and/or sensor 102, input/output
pattern display 103, power source 104 and networking or
communication interface 105.
[0017] Ornament 101 comprises one or more ornamental or functional
electronic device or module incorporated into garment 100,
including music or media player or recorder, global positioning or
navigational location system, antenna or wireless transceiver,
mobile phone or radio communicator, computer or processor,
television or video appliance, alarm or emergency indicator, video
or image camera, communication switch or networking connection, or
electroluminescent lamp or display. Ornaments 101 may be washable
or detachable.
[0018] Ornaments 101 may enable garment 100 to function as
interface to control remotely or programmably various electronic
device, e.g., jacket interfacing with light switches or television
remote control. For example, ornament 101 may functionally
disregard or effectively filter chemical substances or other
harmful electromagnetic energy rays that can cause cancer or other
disease, thereby reducing risk or cause of bio/chemical terrorism
or nuclear threat.
[0019] Ornament 101 also may be composited to enable garment and
fashion 100 to be stain-free, therefore not requiring use of
detergent and materially enhance environmental quality. Ornament
101 may also be composited to provide that clothes do not contain
disease, and are safe from HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Optionally,
ornament 101 may play music, video or other media recording or
enable multi-party voice or video communication based on user
emotion detected by human-emotion detector effectively integrated
in garment 100. Ornament 101 may be electronically-controlled
dispenser or vial for releasing selectively one or more fluids or
gases, such as perfume, medicine, food/drink, pheromone, etc.
according to user, processor or software instruction.
[0020] Sensor 102 comprises one or more identifier or sensor device
integrated with garment 100. Identifier uniquely recognizes and
identifies particular user with one or more alphanumeric, coded, or
signature pattern. Sensor 102 may comprise one or more medical or
physiological biochemical sensor, temperature or heat sensor,
optical or infrared sensor, accelerometer, electromagnetic sensors,
human-emotion detector, pollution-rate detector, water condition or
quality sensors, motion sensor, microphones or media detector,
weight scale, etc. Such medical sensors may measure physical
information such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar level,
and other vital signs and effectively detect and diagnose diseases
such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, etc.
[0021] Sensor 102 may detect weapons, bombs, or other military
equipment particularly for safety-inspection purpose. Sensor 102
can be integrated inconspicuously into garment 100. Sensor 102 or
ornament 101 may provide or effectively resemble ambient
intelligence, i.e., invisible, present whenever user needs it,
enabled by simple and effortless interaction, or autonomously
acting adaptively to user and context.
[0022] Pattern display 103 comprises graphical or media
communication interface, e.g., organic light emitting device
(OLED), flexible optical fiber screen or communication fibers
coupled or woven into clothes capable of up/downloading data and
signals, and providing or displaying graphics such as video, logos,
texts, patterns, and images directly onto clothes or surfaces
coupled thereto. Based on wireless radio signals or electrical
commands, pattern display 103 may change color, images,
projections, and patterns using electrical power provided by power
source 104. Pattern display 103 also offers access to network or
online services such as internet, video, and e-commerce as well as
displays sensor 102, power source 104 or ornament 101 status or
data.
[0023] For example, sporting clothes monitor heart rate, blood
pressure, temperature, respiration rate or other physiological
metric during gym workout or exercise for display on pattern
display 103, or pattern display 103 of clothing fitted with global
positioning system worn by skiers or mountaineers displays
geographic location. Sensor 102 and pattern display 103 may be
distributed regularly in grid or other pattern.
[0024] Power source 104 generates, provides or accesses electrical
power for garment 100, and comprises AC/DC source,
electromechanical generator, portable rechargeable battery, fuel
cell, environment heat source, mechanical source, light source, or
other energy source for providing electrical power. Environmental
heat source may be produced by tapping or collecting natural heat
given-off by user body; mechanical heat source is produced by
transforming mechanical energy of user movement into electrical
power; and optical heat source is produced by transforming
surrounding light into electrical power. Use of environmental heat
source, mechanical heat source or optical heat source as power
source 104 reduces regular battery usage, and therefore materially
enhance quality of the environment.
[0025] Garment 100 optionally employs heat sink to reduce heat
trapped inside clothes, so that garment 100 has more efficient
utilization and conservation of energy resources provided by power
source 104.
[0026] Networking interface 105 communicates via electromagnetic
wireless radio-wave signals or wired interconnected network to
provide garment 100 internal and/or external communications with
user and database. Flexible or rigid conductive or semi-conductive
fibers are woven into garment 100 to transmit/receive signals
inside garment 100. Conductive fibers may be interwoven with
material of garment 100, or added thereto in narrow strips of
ribbon or patterned portions that are sewn at user-specified or
predefined places. Garment 100 may be made from electro-textile
material, e.g., using yarns made of synthetic or metallic fibers
for knitting into cotton or polyester. Yarn fibers may be clad with
metal, silver, nickel or other metallic or conducting material, and
then optionally insulated with polymer or other insulator or
dielectric. Conductive fibers are connected to power source 104 to
provide circuits as defined herein.
[0027] Networking interface 105 allows user selectively in
real-time to control or program ornament 101, sensor 102, pattern
display 103, and power source 104 through user data input devices
such as touchpad, voice recognition tool, keypad, etc. Networking
interface 105 may couple garment 100 with user interface appliance
300, assembly source 407 or database 403. For example, networking
interface 105 sends identifier/sensor 102 data, power source 104
status data, or pattern display 103 information to database 403,
and receives electrical commands or other control signals from
assembly source 407. Garment 100 may comply with applicable
governmental or regulatory requirement or rule, as proven by
testing, quality or other conformation process.
[0028] For example, garment 100 may be attached or coupled to
motorized frames where disabled individuals can wear such garment
100 to help such individuals walk, climb steps, etc.
Battery-powered plastic frame attached to garment 100 relies on
electrodes attached to garment 100 detecting from skin motor nerve
signals emitted by the brain before instructing muscle cells to
contract, thereby providing real-time instruction for frame to move
synchronously with user.
[0029] In another example, sensor 102 embedded in garment 100
provides military, security or surveillance functions. Optical
fibers and special sensors inside garment 100 may detect bullet
wounds and monitor body vital signs during combat or other danger
conditions. Sensor 102 embedded in carpets, wallpapers and various
kinds of canvas covers additionally detects unrecognized person
facial image or voice pattern.
[0030] Yet in another example, doctors may design, configure or
provide customized garment 100 for patients. Sensor 102 printed or
provided on fabric allows doctor to monitor patients without having
to keep them physically in hospital. Networking interface 105
transmits/receives sensor 102 data with doctor or hospital
computer, or sounds alarm if sensor 102 senses patient problem or
danger condition. Further sensor 102 applications enable garment
worn to medicate or diagnose disease.
[0031] Effectively cutting or tailoring such electronic cloth
according to personalized design size or shape may result in
difficulty to make good physical or electrical signal connections
between different parts of same garment 100, and may be solved by
manufacturing seamless clothing, to avoid cutting and stitching
problem altogether. Preferably security or privacy of personal
garment 100 design and manufacturing files and confidential
information are maintained.
[0032] FIG. 2 diagram shows digital communication system
interconnecting local or wide-area network accessible devices,
hosts, computers, servers, or other processor and/or storage, such
as user 201, memory or storage 203, design processor 204, and
manufacturing processor 205. User 201, 202 may access or store
information stored in storage 203 through network 200. Design
source 204 runs design process as controlled by user 201 and
manufacturing source 205 runs manufacturing or testing process
locally or globally; there are no limitations on network-access
geographic location.
[0033] FIG. 3 diagram shows user interface appliance 300 according
to an embodiment of the present invention. Appliance 300 comprises
display device 301, user device 302, memory/processor 303, and
networking interface 304.
[0034] User interface appliance 300 employs Graphical User
Interface (GUI); as understood herein, the term "GUI" is
interpreted and construed broadly to mean any graphical, audio,
video or other media display or sensing system for communicating
digital or analog input and/or output of one or more program or
function, e.g., presenting icons or objects, buttons or selections,
dialogue boxes or windows, on-screen in two or three dimensions.
User interface appliance 300 has program known as user interface
appliance 300 program that allows GUI to receive information or
profile selection from users 201 202, display or modify garment
design, display actual or virtual 3-D user body profile with or
without wearing garment 100, process, analyze, recommend and store
information, and communicate with network 200. User interface
appliance 300 can be accessed anywhere, at store or through
internet 200.
[0035] Display device 301 comprises electronics display or media
communication device having image-displaying region providing
visual representation of objects or other relevant garment
attributes from user interface appliance 300 program and user
interactions or selections with user interface appliance 300
program. Display device 301 preferably comprises command 310,
design template 311, fabric category 312, and 3-D virtual body
profile 313.
[0036] Command 310 comprises icons, buttons and dialogue boxes that
represent user communication with user interface appliance 300.
Command 310 is coupled with user tool 302 to display user
interaction with user interface appliance 300 program. Through
command 310, user chooses a variety of options when configuring
garment 100 definition. As understood herein, the term "garment
definition" is interpreted to mean any garment attribute, parameter
or property, e.g., design style, fabric category, functional
property, etc.
[0037] Various design options, parameters or features may be
selectably combined in same garment 100, including, but not limited
to, motion capture sensor, phosphorescent element, thermoelectric
sensor, electro-adhesive element, variable color element, variable
shade element, water shedding, bio-monitor sensor,
electroluminescent element, sound emitting/capturing element,
variable opacity element, video display, force feedback element,
optical chameleon element, photoelectric element, computational
array, self-repairing element, touch sensitive element, toxin
filtering element, voice recognition software, wireless
communication device, variable rigidity element, variable shape
element, variable reflectivity element, thermal chameleon element,
self-cleaning element, etc.
[0038] User maybe also be enabled to choose pre-configured
templates, parameters or customized configuration for work/leisure
outfit, dance-club gear, immersive media suit, covert-operations
bodysuit, adventure climber, exploration suit, backpack, utility
vest, ultra tarpaulin; each application preferably associated with
pre-configured garment design, parameter or feature options.
[0039] User can select or define available garment material or size
by interacting with command 310. User is also guided to design
architectural garment by providing or selecting functional property
of garment 100, e.g., choosing garment 100 that transforms into
tent, raincoat, massage chair, furniture, mattress, or medical
wheelchair.
[0040] Design template 311 may provide available choices of design
template and/or user current selection of design template. As
understood herein, the term "design template or style" 311 is
interpreted and construed broadly to mean any fashion design
element, parameters or clothing application, e.g., shirts style or
size, collar design, pocket style or size, neck style, back detail,
sleeve detail or length, cuffs, monograms, shirt fit, shirt size,
shirt tail, stitching, tie space, etc.
[0041] Design template may employ one or more adaptive, neural,
fuzzy, Bayesian, or other intelligent control or programming method
or algorithm to apply or design one or more garment elements or
parameters according to one or more predefined or stored user or
expert rule sets, preferably tailoring or weighing one or more
design factors according to user-specific conditions or
preferences. Additionally design template may include or consider
personal user objective and/or objective indications, preferences,
style, range, degree, socio/political affiliation, e.g.,
conservative, liberal, moderate, republican, democrat,
heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, catholic, protestant, jewish,
muslim, etc.
[0042] Fabric category 312 provides choices of fabric category
available and/or user current selection of fabric category. As
understood herein, the term "fabric category" 312 is interpreted
and construed broadly to mean any material category such as
patterns, material, color, stripes, solids, checks, texture,
etc.
[0043] Once user control device receives specific command from
user, user interface appliance 300 program may combine command 310,
design template 311, and/or fabric category 312 information into
garment definition. User can add further information to garment
definition and generate garment test script with aid of
verification source 404. For example, garment may be purchased
below price range, or testing process is focused on biomedical
sensor functionality.
[0044] Three-dimensional virtual body profile 313 comprises
image-processing device for displaying 3-D replica or simulation
model based on body profile information. Receiving command from
user, 3-D virtual body profile 313 displays 3-D representation of
body profile information with or without being superimposed by
designed garment 100. Three-dimensional virtual body shop 313 is
coupled with verification source 407, thereby enabling 3-D virtual
body shop 313 to display replica wearing recommended garment.
[0045] User device 302 comprises user control device 314 or smart
changing room 315. User control device 314 comprises mouse,
joystick, keyboard, touchpad, or speech recognition software
allowing user to control user interface appliance 300 program. For
example, user moves pointer on screen (controlled by mouse),
selects certain objects by pressing buttons on mouse while pointer
is pointing thereto, touches or presses objects on display screen
301 to control program, inserts text using keyboard and verifies
information using speech-recognition tool.
[0046] User control device 314 allows user to key-in codes and
fetch personalized garment definition to be displayed onto display
device 301. User control device 314 can modify 3-D body
representation, such as modifying height and adjusting relative
color contrast of image and modify garment property displayed on
display device 301. User who has body profile stored in
computer-readable storage devices like flash memory, card, tag or
disks may let user control device 314 read information and send to
3-D virtual body profile 313.
[0047] Optionally user tool 302 comprises device to obtain person
body profile information, smart changing room 315. Smart changing
room 315 comprises fixed or movable cameras distributed at
convenient points around room for measuring and/or extrapolating
three-dimensional replica of user. Various body profile parameters
of body profile information are measured according to image
captured. Resulting data is then saved by processor/memory 303 and
fed into user interface appliance 300 program, which then transfers
such information to 3-D virtual body profile 313. Three dimensional
virtual body profile 313 such uses data to display 3-D replica of
person with or without wearing designed garment and fashion
100.
[0048] Multiple-angle images are provided to enable system to
measure or calculate parameters of user body profile, such as chest
size, waist size or hip size. If movable cameras capture continuous
pictures, playback of body profile is used to combine animated
garment images to provide motion effect. System may require manual
assistance to obtain accurate result. Alternately body profile
information refers to captured digital image, such as photograph or
video.
[0049] To increase quality of recommendation received, user is
encouraged to input more physical information, such as eye colors,
eye shape, hair shape or color, skin color, face shape, height,
body shape, shoulder line, etc. Users can input their sizes (e.g.,
collar, waist, hip, yoke, inseam, thigh, skirts length, shorts
length, knee length, ankle length, cuff lengths, etc.,) or height
and/or face structure. User may use manual or electronic method to
enter information.
[0050] Multiple users may access same garment definition or
template, however each user may customize or tailor such template
according to personal measurements, preferences, style, etc. (e.g.,
"Megan" customer may prefer feminine youth size 10 in pink or
lavender, and "Jared" customer may prefer masculine youth size 8 in
blue or green.) If such information is proprietary, then permission
or licensing of particular user may be required to proceed.
[0051] Processor/memory 303 comprises information module for
storage and/or retrieval of information about user (such as account
information, previous design templates, etc.), allowing user
interface appliance 300 to be used by one or more users.
Processor/memory 303 may receive information from remote database
or storage devices storing library of garment definition. For
example, database 403 provides detailed information of saved
template required by user, database 403 provides stored body
template as requested by user, user requiring specific billing plan
may require database to provide detailed explanation of plan and
his/her financial information, user requiring regulatory check may
require database to provide regulatory information, user requiring
that assembly and testing process take place at location require
database to provide location information to user.
[0052] User can easily reconfigure garment 100 design before or
after receiving recommendation from verification source 407.
Recommendation from verification source can be displayed by 3-D
virtual body shop 313, spoken by speech tool of user control tool
314, or displayed by display screen 301.
[0053] FIG. 4 flow diagram illustrates garment design and/or
manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present
invention. In definition process, user interface appliance 300
sends garment definition or design file to database 403, which
transfers information to definition source 402. Garment definition
or design file includes garment property or other information
specified by user, such as price range, governmental regulation,
occupation, etc. User can reset or stop process at any time.
[0054] Referring to verification process, definition source 402
sends garment definition with other information to verification
source 404. Verification process may be done by one or more fashion
and regulatory experts or by computerized garment grading system.
Verification source 404 checks regulatory requirements including
environmental policy. Verification source 404 optimizes cost of
product by selecting appropriate or low-cost garment material or
assembly location. Verification source 404 checks whether cost of
designed garment 100 meets user requirement. Verification source
404 is reconfigurable computer software that gives recommendation
based on fashion trends determined by user input. Verification
source 404 as a computerized fashion or expert consultant
programmed to comment on user apparel selection acts as fashion
advisor and provides fashion style recommendation. Verification
source 404 checks whether garment definition meets functionality
requirement determined by user.
[0055] Verification source 404 sends resulting information to
database 403, which sends to user interface appliance 300 for user
confirmation. If user requires no additional process 405,
information or design file is sent to assembly source 407, else 406
proceed back with definition process 402.
[0056] Assembly source 407 using design file proceeds with
manufacturing process. After manufacturing process is done,
manufacturing information is sent to database 403. Testing source
408 receives piece of garment 100 from assembly source 407 and
garment test script from database 403. Testing source 408 runs test
process and sends test result to database 403, which transfers
information to user through user interface appliance 300. If user
requires no additional process 411, garment sent to user 412; else
409 goes back to assembly process 407 or 410 goes back to
definition process 402.
[0057] Generally computer-assisted method and system automatically
or interactively configures or tailors garment or fashion design.
Preferably one or more user or subscriber template or definition is
completed, modified, accessed or re-used to determine user or
user-group garment profile or requirements. Thus in automated
manner one or more garment-design file(s) is generated by computer
or software program for configuring or reconfiguring a
reconfigurable or programmable garment or prototype thereof,
preferably according to predefined, select or full portion of the
user garment profile.
[0058] Also reconfigurable garment prototype may be configured
according to one or more expert or fashion design template, which
is provided in one or more template library including various
design templates. Completed user template is accessible remotely
through a digital network or Internet using user-secured biometric
authorization or garment-design usage license or script.
[0059] Optionally expert design template is accessible remotely
through digital network using a garment-design usage license, such
that a user of the reconfigurable garment prototype is financially
charged for actual usage of the reconfigurable garment prototype
configured according to the expert design template. Expert design
template provides celebrity, fashion expert, or other famous
designer preferences, definition, style or other fashion
look-and-feel uniquely or identifiably pertaining to garment
design, composition, presentation, fit or manufacture thereof.
Expert design template parameters may be selectively modulated,
tuned or balanced against or relative to user template
parameters.
[0060] Reconfigurable garment prototype may include electrically
one or more reconfigurable logic circuit that is programmable
according to the garment-design file, as well as include one or
more sensors for sensing user condition, thus enabling the
reconfigurable garment prototype to be reconfigured according to a
change in user condition. Additionally reconfigurable garment
prototype may include one or more media or communication interface
for providing or receiving audio/visual content or signal
programmably according to the garment-design file.
[0061] Preferably garment design file is generated using a software
simulation application for modeling the reconfigurable garment
prototype virtually according to select portion of the user garment
profile. Optionally modified garment-design file is generated for
reconfiguring remotely the reconfigurable garment prototype
according to a modified user template or a modified expert design
template.
[0062] Foregoing descriptions of specific embodiments of the
invention have been presented for purposes of illustration and
description. They are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the
invention to the precise forms disclosed. Modifications and
variations are possible in light of the above teaching. Various
novel embodiments to present endorsement scheme include, for
example: digital network security or energy checking in
residential, business, educational, or other working system context
wherein one or more network-connected participants may endorse
electronically in response to certain security-checking proposal
according to present novel scheme; entertainment, theatrical,
sports, or other broadband or media system context wherein one or
more network-connected performer, staff or audience member may
endorse electronically in response to certain live interactive
proposal according to present novel scheme; and medical or
healthcare system context wherein one or more network-connected
patient, doctor, nurse or other staff may endorse electronically in
response to certain medical diagnosis, interview, or other
healthcare dialog according to present novel scheme.
[0063] The embodiments were chosen and described in order to
explain the principles and the application of the invention,
thereby enabling others skilled in the art to utilize the invention
in its various embodiments and modifications according to the
particular purpose contemplated. The scope of the invention is
intended to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their
equivalents.
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