Did You Know...
...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7379786 | Method and device for simulating wearing of a knit garment and program thereof A body and sleeves of a designed virtual seamless knit garment are expanded into an elliptic cylindrical shape and tentatively positioned with respect to a human model. Each part of the expanded seamless garment is moved towards each axis of the torso and both arms ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7357571 | Infrared inspection and reporting process An infrared inspection and reporting process and system obtains inspection data on site via a portable computer. An actual temperature of a component derived from an infrared image and a temperature delta between the temperature of the component and the maximum temp... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7260445 | System and method for customized industrial textile coloration A method and system for customized industrial textile goods manufacturing in which, under control of a client system, information is retrieved relating to the design of a customized textile good to be manufactured; desired design data is selected from one or more da... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7212880 | Embroidery data processing device and computer program product The invention presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of easily forming images of finished state of applique even if the fabric for applique is a pattern fabric. A selected fabric image of fabric for applique is displayed... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7079916 | On demand mobile manufacture of vehicle protection application kits A mobile client for the automated production of forms, shapes, or patterns communicates with a library server. The patterns have predetermined dimensions and may be applied to surfaces of vehicles for the protection of the surfaces. A business method involving the m... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7040204 | Method for preparing graphics on sheets A method for preparing a graphic on a sheet of material which also includes at least one registration mark at and about the graphic in predetermined positions. The method involves the steps of applying the graphic and at least one registration mark on a sheet of mat... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7031527 | Automatic digitization of garment patterns The present invention relates to a system and method for digitizing shapes especially for garment styles by using image scanning techniques. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7016756 | Automatically generating embroidery designs from a scanned image A method and system are disclosed for automatically generating embroidery designs from a scanned image. An embroidery data generating mechanism generates accurate embroidery designs. The embroidery data generating mechanism first reads an image data file, which cont... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003370 | Method of symmetrically locating a pattern piece relative to work material having a variable repeat pattern A method for symmetrically aligning a pattern piece relative to a work material defining a pattern with varying repeat dimensions. The method including selectively capturing first and second images of areal portions of the work material corresponding to respective f... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6950720 | Preset controller of compensator in rotary press A preset controller which performs preset control, which allows, in the case of updating and correcting a print operational condition for a print pattern number, another print operation for a different print pattern number to reflect the updated and corrected compen... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950717 | System and method for controlling width and stitch density of a fabric web A system for controlling the width and stitch density of a moving fabric web compacted by a fabric compaction system. The width control subsystem comprises a first camera which captures an image of a moving fabric web, and a first controller, wherein the first contr... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6917848 | Production system for printed wiring board A manufacturing system for printed wiring boards divides printed wiring boards scheduled to be manufactured into non-fractional and fractional groups depending on the content of an order remainder list. The printed wiring boards categorized as non-fractional are pan... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6868303 | Method for automatically placing parts on leather pieces with non-homogeneous characteristics A method for laying out pieces to be cut out from a remnant of flexible material, the cut out pieces being used to manufacture an article. A mask generic to remnants of a given type is generated. The at least one generic mask is subdivided into zones which correspon... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6804573 | Automatically generating embroidery designs from a scanned image Apparatus and methods for generating embroidery data from image data automatically identify at least one image characteristic based on at least one of edge contour data and skeletal data. The identified at least one image characteristic includes at least one of a si... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6690987 | System for presenting a textile sheet automatically Apparatus for automatically presenting a generally pre-needled textile sheet coming from an upstream module and intended to feed a cross-layer module, the apparatus comprising means for measuring the positions of the longitudinal edges of the textile shee... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6580962 | Method for aligning a spatial array of pattern pieces comprising a marker method In a method for aligning a spatial array of pattern pieces comprising a marker, a work material processing apparatus defining a support surface adapted to carry work material is provided and at least one layer of work is spread thereon. Images of said wor... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6516240 | Apparatus and method for the remote production of customized clothing An apparatus and method is provided for creating custom-fitted garments wherein the customer provides critical information which is known to or easily ascertainable by the customer without assistance. Using this critical information, a controller applies ... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6502489 | Method for cutting a layup of sheet material An apparatus for cutting and matching parts in a layup of material that includes a cutter tool for cutting the parts and a camera for detecting and analyzing match points located on the individual parts that need to be matched to other parts. The apparatu... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6434444 | Method and apparatus for transforming a part periphery to be cut from a patterned sheet material A method and apparatus for cutting patterned sheet material to provide a predetermined relationship between a pattern characteristic and the part to be cut. An estimated position of a pattern characteristic is projected onto the sheet material and a dista... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6353770 | Apparatus and method for the remote production of customized clothing An apparatus and method is provided for creating custom-fitted garments wherein the customer provides critical information which is known to or easily ascertainable by the customer without assistance. Using this critical information, a controller applies ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6314585 | Process of making image-displaying garments A process is provided for making a garment having at least one image at a selected position on the garment. A marker is created containing a sight point and an identification of the bounds of at least some of the pieces of the garment. The position and or... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6304793 | Embroidery data editing device A memory 36 previously stores therein a plurality of sets of color combination data indicative of a plurality of desirable combinations of colors. Color of a cloth to be sewn is read by a scanner 28. With referring to the memory 36, an embroidery data edi... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6301518 | Editing device of patch work pieces and a recording medium for storing programs to operate the editing device The invention relates to an editing device for patch work pieces. In the editing device, an operator edits all patch work pieces that make up a patch work piece product on a display device. The operator edits the figure and the pattern of the patch work p... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6256551 | Embroidery data production upon partitioning a large-size embroidery pattern into several regions A large embroidery pattern is divided into a plurality of sewing regions so that each sewing region does not exceed the maximum sewing size of an embroidery sewing machine. An embroidery data processor prepares a piece of embroidery data for each divided ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6243618 | Method of marking number or the like and apparatus for marking the same A method of marking a number on a work. The number is read out by a data read-out means, the read-out data is electrically transmitted and returned in a secure manner, and a predetermined number is securely marked. The structure is made such that the chas... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6233496 | Fashion design and production supporting method and system therefor A fashion design and production supporting method which makes the processing steps from the fashion design to the creation of block copy films for plates used in the actual production efficient, which allows a trial sample to be made without making block ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6205370 | Method of making a nest of cuts For making a nest of cuts (N) for cutting blanks out of flat, irregular workpieces (W), the contour (U) and the flaws (F) of the spread workpieces (W) together with a workpiece characteristic are detected by means of a digitizing unit (3), and the corresp... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6173211 | Apparatus and method for fabric printing of nested A method for making fabric pattern pieces for assembly into garments, upholstery or the like, with the fabric of each pattern piece having a fabric design with design features arranged in a predetermined manner with respect to the lines defining the bound... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5975743 | Method for automatically cutting portions of a patterned fabric An ideal layout for the pieces on the patterned fabric is determined and stored. Monitoring is performed on the real fabric (20) by detecting any offset between the real pitch of the pattern (M) on the fabric as spread out and the ideal pitch used to dete... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5896295 | Embroidering apparatus and method An embroidering data processing apparatus including a memory for storing embroidering data which are formulated to embroider an embroidery pattern and which include pattern embroidering data including component data sets for embroidering respective compon... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5838573 | Process and apparatus for spotting labels A system for registering containers carried on one conveyor belt with wraps carried on another conveyor belt, in which each container is viewed by an electronic camera that provides a digitized image of the container. Printed material on the face of each ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5838569 | Method of digitizing and cutting up remnants of non-repetitive shapes Sheet materials in the form of remnants of non-repetitive shapes and that might be flawed, e.g. hides (10), are cut up using a method that includes the following operations: digitizing the geometrical shape of each remnant; defining a layout for pieces to... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5831857 | Pattern alignment and cutting system A pattern alignment system for use during the garment development process prior to the cutting operation includes a table with work surface. There is a digitizer located with the surface. The operator establishes a perimeter of a hide or other fabric piec... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5777880 | Method and apparatus for correctively guiding a cutting device on a predetermined path along a sheet material A method and apparatus for correctively guiding an item on a desired path along a material is provided wherein a guide path matching a desired path for an item to be guided along a material and a plurality of templates containing images of the material ar... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5768135 | Custom apparel manufacturing apparatus and method The present invention is a system and method for custom tailoring and manufacturing apparel by using numerous try-on apparels of differing, predetermined dimensions to make a finished product. A system is used to keep track of the number of try-on apparel... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5740056 | Method and device for producing embroidery data for a household sewing machine An embroidery data producing device produces embroidery data based on original pattern made up of continuous line components. The embroidery data is supplied to a household sewing machine for embroidering on cloth. A scanner reads an original image and pr... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5703781 | Automatic market making system and method An automatic marker making system and method are provided in which the creation of a new marker is facilitated through the use of already existing marker designs. A computer database of existing markers is searched for markers that are "similar" to the ma... | 12/30/1997 |
