Image analysis – Applications – Textiles or clothing
Patent
1995-09-14
1999-10-12
Rogers, Scott
Image analysis
Applications
Textiles or clothing
36447002, 395132, 382167, G06K 900
Patent
active
059664541
ABSTRACT:
Methods and system according to the present invention enable a highly streamlined and efficient fabric or textile sampling and design process particularly valuable in the design and selection of floor coverings, wall coverings and other interior design treatments. A digital library of fabric models is created, preferably including digitized full-color images and having associated a digital representation of positions that are located within and which characterize the models. Via an application implemented according to conventional software methods and running on conventional hardware having high resolution graphics processing capabilities, a user may navigate among the set of alternative models, and may modify the positions of the selected models to test out desired combinations of characteristics--such as poms or yarn ends, for models of floor coverings--and view the results in high resolution. In particular, and also according to the present invention, a method is provided for substituting colors in digital images of photographic quality, while preserving their realism particularly in the vicinity of shadows. The resulting samples or designs can be stored and transmitted over a telecommunications network or by other means to a central facility that can either generate photographic-quality images of the samples, or can directly generate actual samples of the carpet or other material of interest.
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Thomas Glenn C.
Vark Jay Van
Bentley Mills, Inc.
Bobys Marc
Labbee Michael F.
Pratt John S.
Rogers Scott
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