Online Garment Design System Using Digital Parts and 3D Avatars
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Solution Overview
Problem
The fashion design industry faces inefficiencies in creating sample garments, requiring time-consuming and costly manual processes for designing, cutting, and assembling patterns, especially when dealing with patterned materials, and there is a need for a system to facilitate online garment design and collaboration to reduce sample production costs and improve communication between designers and buyers.
Innovation Solution
A server-based system for online garment design and virtual try-on that uses digital garment parts, a range camera for body scanning, and augmented reality to create avatars for draping and displaying digital garments, allowing designers to select, combine, and purchase digital garment parts through a network interface, and providing a pay-per-part or subscription-based system for online purchase.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If manual sampling processes are used to create sample garments, then design accuracy and material quality can be ensured, but production time and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates accurate 3D digital copies of physical garments and their components. These digital models can be replicated, modified, and visualized without physical manipulation, eliminating time-consuming manual sampling while preserving design accuracy through precise digital reproduction of garment geometry, fabric properties, and construction details.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (cutting, sewing, assembling physical samples) with computational and visualization systems. Designers can manipulate digital garment models, simulate fabric behavior, and evaluate designs virtually, substituting physical craftsmanship with digital tools that maintain precision while dramatically reducing production time.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sample garments are produced for different materials and configurations, then design options can be explored, but costs and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal 3D digital garment model that can be adapted to represent different materials, colors, patterns, and configurations through software parameters rather than physical reconstruction. A single digital model serves multiple design exploration purposes, allowing designers to evaluate various material options and design variations without producing separate physical samples for each scenario.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables design exploration by allowing dynamic modification of digital garment parameters such as fabric properties, colors, patterns, measurements, and construction details. These parameter changes can be made instantly in the digital model to explore different design options, eliminating the need to produce multiple physical samples with different materials and configurations.
3Manufacturing precision
If pattern pieces are accurately positioned on patterned sheet material, then pattern matching quality improves, but the complexity and time required for arrangement increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital copies of pattern pieces and fabric patterns, allowing virtual arrangement and pattern matching simulation. The system can automatically calculate optimal positioning of digital pattern pieces on digital fabric swaths to achieve desired pattern matching, eliminating the manual trial-and-error process while maintaining high pattern matching quality through computational precision.
4Loss of information
If designers and buyers communicate through traditional sampling processes, then design intent can be conveyed, but communication efficiency and collaboration are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates shareable 3D digital representations of garment designs that can be transmitted electronically between designers and buyers. These digital models preserve design intent with high fidelity and can be viewed, manipulated, and evaluated by all stakeholders remotely, eliminating the need for physical sample shipping and improving communication efficiency through instant digital collaboration.
Data Source
AI summary
A server system and method is for facilitating garment creation. A processor and storage device are configured to receive and store designed digital garment or garment parts for selection, approval and/or inclusion into a digital garment. A designer interface is accessible over a network and is configured to view, approve, select and place two or more of the digital garment parts together to form a digital garment to store in the storage device. An online purchase system is configured to access the storage device to select and purchase the digital garment from a plurality of available digital garments.