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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175740 | Yarn tension monitoring and setting system Yarn processing system for simultaneously processing a plurality of yarns in a processing machine, such as a twisting machine, a texturizing machine, or a dyeing machine. A yarn tensioning assembly is provided and has, for each yarn entering the processing machine, ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8131395 | 90 degree ply placement system and method A method of placing a 90 degree ply on a separate 0 degree material includes providing 90 degree ply from a 90 degree ply material source; moving the 90 degree ply in a 90 degree ply carrier to a position over the 0 degree material; removing the 90 degree ply carrie... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7457682 | Embroidered article with digitized autograph and palm print A personalized article associated with a child includes a panel bearing an embroidered image based on a hand or foot print and autographed name impression of the child that is digitized and enhanced for use in creating a replicated stitched image on the panel using ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7433753 | Virtual clothing modeling apparatus and method Trying on the clothes is simulated by processing an image sequence by using a posture dictionary, and a three-dimensional figure, obtained in advance, of a person who wishes to try on clothing. The process includes estimating the posture of the person, and simulatin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421306 | Apparel size service Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparel size service to provide a customer or user with an apparel size recommendation, for example, by providing information about an appropriate size of apparel for an individual based on comparison information with ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7409259 | Computer-assisted method for designing garments A method is provided for designing garments including the following steps: a) providing, via computer, at least one garment mold (13) made up of a basic three-dimensional surface, personified by a body (2) enveloping cover. The above mentioned garment ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398133 | Matching the fit of individual garments to individual consumers A method and system for specifying the fit of garments and matching the fit of individual garments to individual consumers is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes categorizing human body shapes based on dimensional and demographic body measurement data sa... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7363255 | Apparatus unit replacement assisting method and system By providing an apparatus unit replacement assisting method, in which, upon receipt of a request from a first user to replace a first unit comprising part of an apparatus with a second unit, the second unit is offered to the first user at a price after the deduction... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346421 | Production of made to order clothing An arrangement for the production of made to order clothing (18), comprising a controller (14) operatively connected (12) to an input means (10), said input means (10) being adapted to provide to said controller (14) input v... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337036 | Three-way connector for connecting weft feeders of textile machines to a serial bus, and a control system based thereon The three-way connector comprises a first, a second and a third gates directly connected to one another. The first and second gate are pluggable onto respective spans of a bus, and the third gate is connectable to a weft feeder. The three-way connector further compr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328084 | System and method for carrier identification in a pneumatic tube system A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7308332 | Virtual clothing modeling apparatus and method Trying on the clothes is simulated by processing an image sequence by using a posture dictionary, and a three-dimensional figure, obtained in advance, of a person who wishes to try on clothing. The process includes estimating the posture of the person, and simulatin... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303163 | Method and system for delivering threads A yarn feeder system (1) includes a plurality of yarn feeders combined into one group (8). In the trial mode, the yarn feeders operate in an individually tension-controlled manner on the basis of a specified yarn tension value. The yarn feed quantities... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292905 | Method and system for identifying manufacturing anomalies in a manufacturing system A method and system for identifying manufacturing anomalies in a manufacturing system comprising a plurality of products which are manufactured with a plurality of manufacturing parameters is disclosed. The system comprises a data mining program applied to the data ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286696 | Method and apparatus for utilizing representational images in commercial and other activities In a method and apparatus for performing commercial and other activities using one or more two- or three-dimensional representational images, superimposing a two- or three-dimensional representational image, containing an image of the workpiece in an advanced state ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266511 | Method and system for operating a virtual shopping mall or seller-engaged type A virtual shopping mall system of seller-engaged type is provided. A virtual shopping mall operations apparatus E accepts virtual goods information corresponding to real goods from a seller A and registers the virtual goods information to the virtual shopping mall. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242999 | Method and apparatus for identifying virtual body profiles 3D morphological data representative of reference size models of garment brands and respective categorizing data are introduced into an information processing system. These 3D morphological data are indexed by brand names, categorizing data, and volumetric, dimensio... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7217049 | Supplying media to a wallpaper printer The invention provides a method of supplying a media web to a wallpaper printer. The method involves opening a reusable case and placing into the case a core onto which has been located a supply roll of blank wallpaper media. The core is supported for rotation withi... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213310 | Device for finishing denim woven fabric A device for finishing woven denim textiles is described which, proceeding from unfinished goods, is supposed to be brought to predetermined reference values for finished width, skew and woof thread density. The device is supposed to be designed for continuous opera... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216068 | Digitized thermal functional design of textiles and clothing Visual thermal functional textile clothing designs are created using a programmed computer and advanced computing techniques. The computer is supplied with information from a number of databases relating to human body properties and relating to textile material char... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204137 | Thread breakage detection systems and methods A thread breakage detection apparatus comprises a light source operable to generate a light beam, an emitter in communication with the light source, the emitter operable to emit the light beam, and a receiver in communication with and disposed in facing opposition t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203567 | Method and apparatus for electronically controlling fiber processing machines, particularly spinning preparation machines An apparatus for electronically controlling a fiber processing machine includes at least one plug-in module group and at least one memory for receiving and storing data. A non-volatile memory is disposed physically apart from the plug-in module group whereby the dat... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200462 | Method and system for preparing textile patterns before shrinkage A computer readable medium including instructions for a method for adjusting fabric shrinkage from a bulk wash process. The method includes the steps of storing a plurality of sets of modification percentages and selecting one of the plurality of sets of modificatio... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7171449 | Friend-to-friend mail systems and methods Methods and systems are provided for a three party mailing service. The process may enable a first party, such as an advertiser, to create a mailpiece, such as a postcard, marked with a unique code. The mailpiece may be provided to a second party, such as a househol... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146792 | Service trolley for open-end spinning machines Service trolley for open-end spinning machines equipped with members dedicated to the operations in the intervention cycles and managed by the trolley's own control unit in which each member is independent from the others, being equipped with independent actuation c... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146239 | Methods and systems for coordinating customized manufacturing of consumer products There are provided methods and systems for manufacturing consumer products such as clothing. In accordance with the invention, customer measurements and preferences are collected by a unique, small-footprint or private custom clothing shop. These measurements and pr... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7113843 | Method for the maintenance of a textile machine The invention relates to a method for the maintenance of a plurality of processing stations (13) of a textile machine (10), whereby at least one first maintenance unit (14a-d) can travel alongside the processing stations (13) in or... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110846 | Yarn processing system and yarn feeding device The invention relates to a yarn processing system comprising a textile machine and at least one yarn feeding device, which are assigned to the peripheral auxiliary devices wherein the yarn feeding device has a computerised control device that is connected by signal ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7092782 | Systems and methods for improved apparel fit Systems and methods for providing garments with improved and customized fits to one or more target consumer groups fit are described in the present invention. One method provides for a garment fit to a target consumer group comprising the steps of determining common... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086129 | System for producing wound warps Wound warps are made by pulling a multiplicity of warp filaments off respective supplies and winding them around a warp beam by rotating the warp beam while pressing the filaments against the beam with a predetermined packing force by a packing roller. The packing r... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082746 | Process and device for the piecing of a yarn in an open-end spinning device For the piecing of a yarn in an spinning device, various computation formulas are stored in a control device into which calculated values as well as special data converted into numerical values relating in particular to the fiber material, the yarn and the spinning ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7062454 | Previewing system and method A method and system for previewing accessories prior to purchasing is disclosed. In one embodiment a first image of a portion of a person can be provided to an input device. Then, a second image including an image of an accessory is selected from an electronic datab... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058471 | System and method for custom-made clothing A garment facility produces custom-made garments according to the body contour and the fit preferences of a customer. Try-on garments for various styles of garments are presented to customers for selection. The tailor will retrieve the one or more base patterns asso... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7036727 | Commodity sales system and method To perform sales cooperation among a plurality of stores constituting, for example, a shopping center, a street of stores, or the like. To enable this cooperation, a clerk in each store proposes, to a customer in the store, coordinated commodities in which a commodi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021538 | Form processing system and method A form processing system makes it easier to handle forms generated in conjunction with product sales and thereby improves overall productivity. This form processing system processes forms generated in conjunction with product sales using a form printer 4 as a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020538 | Look-up table method for custom fitting of apparel A method and system for coustom fitting an article to a human being or animal comprising, selecting on the basis of body information about the human being or animal a subset of entries from a database populated with entries, wherein the entries comprise data from wh... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006669 | Machine vision method and apparatus for thresholding images of non-uniform materials Machine vision inspection methods and systems according to the invention take an average (or other statistical measure) of pixel values within neighborhoods or groups of pixels within an image. The averages are compared with one or more thresholds and a result gener... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003369 | Real time design, development and delivery collaborative apparel solution digital platform A real time design, development and delivery collaborative apparel solution digital platform is provided. The platform includes a virtual design library module, a technical designer network module, an eCAD module for facilitating design collaboration between a label... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999837 | Device and method for controlling and/or monitoring a yarn processing system A device for controlling and monitoring a yarn processing system, which comprises an electronic main control unit and at least one yarn feeding unit, and inside of which a serial communications field bus system is provided with at least one field bus for carrying ou... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6990431 | System and software to monitor cyclic equipment efficiency and related methods Systems, software and methods of embodiments of the present invention are able to monitor and evaluate the efficiency of an equipment operating cyclically to displace a variable workload without any input from an operator or the use of specialized metering equipment... | 01/24/2006 |
