IP Library Granted Patent US 7,930,056
Granted Patent B2
US 7,930,056 · App. 12/114,678 · Granted Apr 19, 2011

Reconfigurable garment definition and production method

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,930,056
App. No.
12/114,678
Granted
Apr 19, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

Computer-aided design and manufacture software and hardware automate garment and fashion definition and production. Configurable garment includes ornamental element, pattern display, and personal identifier and wireless sensor electronics.

Claims (10)

1. Reconfigurable garment comprising:

a garment having an RFID tag or user sensor for personally identifying the garment user;

an ornament having a media player/recorder or navigational global positioning location system, wireless communicator or mobile phone for enabling wireless multi-party voice or video communication, control or access using a pattern display; and

a networking or user interface for configurably accessing or controlling the ornament or sensor electronically according to a user- defined garment definition or design file, or expert design template or style;

thereby enabling automated configuration of the garment effectively having ambient intelligence adaptable to user definition;

wherein the pattern display enables 3-D graphics as well as touch and force-feedback communication via flexible optical fiber screen having touch-sensitive input, and virtual force-feedback and 3-D output; such that the garment configures the pattern display automatically according to ambient intelligence adaptive to ornament or sensor context as well as user interaction autonomously via user touch input and 3-D force-feedback output while user wears such intelligently-configurable garment to communicate more effortlessly.

2. Reconfigurable garment of claim 1 wherein:

the sensor is a medical sensor for sensing user physiology and controlling a dispenser to release medication for the user.

3. Reconfigurable garment of claim 1 wherein:

the interface or ornament is coupled via optical or conductive fiber woven in or integrated with the garment.

Continuity (2)
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