Garment Size Mapping Standardization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cross-border online transactions face challenges due to differences in garment sizing conventions, making it difficult for consumers to determine the correct size of clothing from different regions.
Innovation Solution
A system that maps client sizes, shapes, and preferences to a standardized size scale, allowing for comparisons and recommendations across different brands and regions, even when sizing conventions differ.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If consumers shop online without physical dressing rooms, then shopping convenience is improved, but the ability to accurately determine garment fit deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual dressing room system as an intermediary between the consumer and the physical garment. This virtual environment uses 3D body scanning and garment simulation technology to mediate the fit determination process, allowing consumers to visualize how garments will fit them online without needing a physical dressing room.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual copy or digital twin of the consumer's body through 3D scanning, and then simulates the garment on this digital replica. This copying approach allows accurate fit determination without requiring the consumer to physically try on the garment, thus maintaining online shopping convenience while improving fit assessment accuracy.
2Adaptability or versatility
If consumers shop in different countries with different sizing conventions, then product variety is improved, but size comparison accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter representation by converting all garment sizes from their local conventions into a unified standardized measurement system. This parameter transformation allows accurate comparison of garments from different countries and regions while maintaining the variety of products available across international markets.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal size measurement framework that can accommodate garments from multiple countries and regions. This universal system serves multiple functions: it standardizes size comparisons, respects local sizing conventions, and enables accurate cross-border shopping while maintaining product variety.
3Loss of information
If consumers manually compare garments across different regions, then information processing capability is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of comparing garment sizes across different regions with an automated computational system. The system automatically processes size information, performs cross-region comparisons, and provides recommendations, thereby reducing time consumption while improving information processing accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing garment sizes, body measurements, and cross-region comparisons without requiring active consumer participation in the comparison process. This automation reduces the time consumers would otherwise spend manually researching and comparing garments across different regions.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for mapping size information associated with a client to target brands, garments, sizes, shapes, and styles for which there is no standardized correlation. The size information associated with a client may be generated by modeling client garments, accessing computer aided drawing (CAD) files associated with client garments, or by analyzing a history of garment purchases associated with the client. Information for target garments may be generated in a similar fashion. A system may then create a standardized scale with a set of sizes for a target, and map a client base size to that standardized size scale. Similar matching and mapping may also be done with shape and style considerations. A recommendation based on the mapping may then be communicated to the client.