Thus, measurements can be taken or made interactively and accurately, but each garment must still be cut to the unique dimensions so ascertained.
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While the use of optical and electrical measuring devices improves accuracy and collection of the information regarding the customer's body dimensions, such devices are expensive, require skilled operators, and do not solve the remaining problems and costs of unique cutting and assembly facing the volume manufacturer.
Volume manufacturers may make as many as 60,000 or 70,000 pairs of pants a week in factories around the world.
Costs have typically been kept low with the use of a limited number of standard sizes and standard styles/cuts, which lower or eliminate the need for specially skilled labor, and also limit the need for specialized and unique cutting and tracking methods.
Custom tailoring done according to the traditional methods is inconsistent with high volume manufacturing and low costs.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,548,519 and 5,768,135, which are incorporated herein by reference, disclose a system for fitting customers to one of a plurality of pre-determined garment patterns using try-on garments which correspond to at least some of the pre-determined garment patterns.
An initial try-on is identified by the system using the customer's critical fit dimensions for a selected type of garment, then additional try-ons are identified based upon customer fit preference.
With each of these methods, a trained person, such as a tailor or a clerk, is required to take at least some measurements (which the customer cannot easily determine unaided).
For example, an accurate hip, rise and/or seat measurement can be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a customer to determine unaided, and measurements such as inseam or outseam can be tricky.
Very often, customers feel embarrassed or awkward when such measurements are taken by another person, and this can lead to reluctance to obtain custom-fitted clothing.
Accordingly, the need exists for a manufacturing system which can produce customized clothing using measurements which a customer can easily determine without assistance, and which will reasonably accurately estimate the remaining necessary measurements which the customer cannot easily determine alone, so that the customer can order good-fitting custom sewn garments without the assistance of a tailor or clerk.
The present invention provides a manufacturing system and method for the production of customized garments.
The system prompts the customer to provide information regarding critical fit dimensions which the customer can easily and substantially accurately determine without assistance, and then uses that customer input to reasonably accurately estimate other critical fit dimensions necessary to produce reasonably good fitting, custom manufactured garments, so that the customer can order reasonably good-fitting custom sewn garments without the assistance of a tailor or clerk.
In one embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a garment for a specific customer using measurements provided by that customer, including a controller, a means linked to the controller for communicating with the customer and for prompting the customer to enter known or easily ascertained information relating to some of the customer's critical dimensions needed to manufacture a selected garment, a storage means in communication with the controller and containing rules for estimating at least one critical fit dimension needed to manufacture the selected garment based upon a relevant dimension which the customer can easily determine without assistance, such as shoe size, a means for creating pattern data from said critical dimensions, and, a means for transmitting the pattern data to a production facility for cutting and assembly to produce the garment style selected by the customer.
In another embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus for creating pattern data which can be used to create a custom garment selected by a customer.
The apparatus of this embodiment includes a controller, a means linked to the controller for communicating with the customer and prompting the customer to enter information relating to critical dimensions which the customer knows or can easily ascertain substantially accurately without assistance, a storage means linked to said controller and containing rules for estimating at least one critical fit dimension needed to create the pattern data for the selected garment based upon a relevant dimension which the customer can substantially accurately determine without assistance, and a program for creating a pattern from the identified and calculated critical fit dimensions.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention provides a method for creating pattern data which can be used to create a custom garment intended to fit a specific customer, including the steps of: storing in a computer at least one generic pattern and identifying on said pattern the critical dimensions which can then be used to scale remaining pattern points to create a desired garment; identifying to the customer each kind of garment for which a generic pattern has been stored in said computer, and allowing the customer to choose a garment to be produced; based upon the garment chosen by the customer, prompting the customer to provide information relating to the critical dimensions required to scale the stored pattern corresponding to the selected garment; using rules stored in the computer and information furnished by the customer to estimate at least one critical dimension required to create the custom garment; and, produce a custom pattern from the base pattern by using the critical dimensions and grading the remaining pattern points using a conventional pattern production program.
Other and further objects, features, advantages and embodiments of the present invention will become apparent to one skilled in the art from reading the Detailed Description of the Invention together with the drawings.
The present invention provides a combination of first providing a coarse adjustment by varying the emitter power and duration of the emitter/detector exposure time, and then providing a fine adjustment by storing a correction value for each photodetector element.
The adjustment for each photodetector corrects not only for the range, but also for the offset, providing two correction values.
In a preferred embodiment, the low and high voltage reference levels for an analog to digital converter are adjusted and stored for each photodetector for each color.
The present invention relates to color image sensor devices such as image scanners, facsimile machines and copy machines, and in particular relates to compensating for varying light emitter output flux and sensor responsivity.
Many different types of devices exist for sensing color images.
These can be desktop or hand held scanners, copy machines, facsimile machines, or other devices.
A number of different methods are used.
In one, a fluorescent lamp is used to illuminate the image, with different color filters being positioned to intercept either the transmitted or reflected light before it is sensed.
Alternately, multiple fluorescent lamps with their own dedicated filters used for emitting different colors of light could be used.
In yet other devices, instead of fluorescent lamps, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are used, with different LEDs having different color emissions.
For example, a typical configuration might have three types of LEDs, one in the blue range of wavelengths, another in the green range of wavelengths, and another in the red range of wavelengths.
One problem with using LEDs is that the radiant flux of light emitted, and even the mean wavelength of light emitted, for different LEDs of the same color may vary from LED to LED depending on the manufacturing process.
