Body-perception enhancing striped garment and systems and methods for creation thereof

Abstract

Systems or methods for anatomy striping a garment are provided. Anatomy striping is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's stripe pattern in order to change the perceived shape of a wearer of the garment toward a desired appearance. Additionally, the garments that result from use of these systems and methods for anatomy striping are also provided.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A body-perception enhancing garment, the body-perception enhancing garment comprising:
 a front side; and   a rear side, the rear side opposite to and attached to the front side;   an adjusted stripe pattern on at least one of the front side and the rear side,   wherein the adjusted stripe pattern is manipulated around a first feature of a wearer to change a perceived shape of the first feature of the wearer toward a desired first feature shape.   
     
     
         2 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the desired first feature shape is selected to make the wearer appear more attractive. 
     
     
         3 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the adjusted stripe pattern is at least one of warped, shaded, halftoned, texture gradient adjusted, and stripe frequency adjusted. 
     
     
         4 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the adjusted stripe pattern is warped around a second feature of the wearer to change the perceived shape of the second feature of the wearer toward a desired second feature shape. 
     
     
         5 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the adjusted stripe pattern is warped and halftoned. 
     
     
         6 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the adjusted stripe pattern in texture gradient adjusted. 
     
     
         7 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the body-perception enhancing garment is one of: a pair of pants; a shirt; a skirt; a jacket; a pair of shorts; a dress; a pair of leggings; a pair of capris; a bra; a piece of underwear; a piece of swim wear; a pair of shoes; and a pair of skorts. 
     
     
         8 . The body-perception enhancing garment of  claim 1 , wherein the first feature is one of: a buttocks; a bosom; a waist; shoulders; arms; and legs. 
     
     
         9 . A method for creating a body-perception enhancing garment, the method comprising:
 identifying, selecting or creating a 3-D body shape;   identifying a flat stripe pattern for a garment;   adjusting the flat stripe pattern based on dimension of the 3-D body shape and a selected shaping effect to create an adjusted stripe pattern;   creating a 2-D image of the adjusted stripe pattern; and   applying the adjusted stripe pattern to the garment based on the  2 -D image to form the body-perception enhancing garment.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the selected shaping effect is warping, and wherein adjusting the flat stripe pattern based on dimension of the 3-D body shape and the selected shaping effect to create the adjusted stripe pattern comprises:
 converting the 3-D body shape into a 2-D depth map;   positioning the flat stripe pattern on the 2-D depth map; and   displace the flat stripe pattern based on the positioning of the flat stripe pattern on the 2-D depth map to create the adjusted stripe pattern.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the selected shaping effect is halftoning, wherein adjusting the flat stripe pattern based on dimension of the 3-D body shape and the selected shaping effect to create the adjusted stripe pattern comprises:
 converting the 3-D body shape into a 2-D depth map;   inverting the 2-D depth map to form an inverted 2-D depth map;   converting the inverted 2-D depth map into grayscale to form a modified 2-D depth map;   positioning the flat stripe pattern on the modified 2-D depth map; and   resize the flat stripe pattern based on the positioning of the flat stripe pattern on the modified 2-D depth map and based on the shading on the modified 2-D depth map to create the adjusted stripe pattern.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the selected shaping effect is frequency adjustment, wherein adjusting the flat stripe pattern based on dimension of the 3-D body shape and the selected shaping effect to create the adjusted stripe pattern comprises:
 converting the 3-D body shape into a 2-D depth map;   inverting the 2-D depth map to form an inverted 2-D depth map;   converting the inverted 2-D depth map into grayscale to form a modified 2-D depth map   positioning the flat stripe pattern on the modified 2-D depth map; and   adjust stripe frequency in the flat stripe pattern based on the positioning of the flat stripe pattern on the modified 2-D depth map and based on the shading on the modified 2-D depth map to create the adjusted stripe pattern.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the selected shaping effect is texture gradient adjustment, wherein adjusting the flat stripe pattern based on dimension of the 3-D body shape and the selected shaping effect to create the adjusted stripe pattern comprises:
 positioning the flat stripe pattern on the 3-D body shape;   select a feature on the 3-D body shape to form a selected feature;   determine a desired shape for the selected feature on the 3-D body shape; and   adjust stripe frequency and adjust stripe size for stripes in the flat stripe pattern positioned over the selected feature based on the desired shape for the feature to create the adjusted stripe pattern,   wherein adjust the stripe size includes keeping any modified stripes in the flat stripe pattern equal in size with at least one other stripe.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the selected shaping effect is shading, wherein adjusting the flat stripe pattern based on dimension of the 3-D body shape and the selected shaping effect to create the adjusted stripe pattern comprises:
 applying overhead light to the 3-D body shape to obtain a 3-D shadowing created by the 3-D body shape;   create a 2-D shading gradient template based on the shadowing created from illuminating the 3-D body shape;   positioning the flat stripe pattern on the -D shading gradient template; and   adjusting shading of one or more stripes in the flat stripe pattern based on the brightness level of the 2-D shading gradient template located beneath a given stripe after the positioning to create the adjusted stripe pattern.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein one or more noise elements are added to the adjusted stripe pattern before applying the adjusted stripe pattern to the garment. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein applying the adjusted stripe pattern to the garment based on the 2-D image to form the body-perception enhancing garment further comprises:
 selecting a graphic print for the garment;   overlaying the adjusted stripe pattern on the graphic print; and   combining the adjusted stripe pattern with the graphic print by removing a portion of the adjusted striped pattern that is not located within the graphic print so the adjusted stripe pattern in is the form of a stripe pattern adjusted graphic print.   
     
     
         17 . A method for creating a body-perception enhancing garment, the method comprising:
 selecting a 3-D body shape;   identifying a flat stripe pattern for a garment;   positioning the flat stripe pattern on the 3-D body shape;   select a stripe on the stripe pattern to form a selected stripe;   apply a shaping effect to the selected stripe based on the selected stripe's position on the 3-D body shape and a desired appearance of any feature on the 3-D body shape located under the selected stripe to create an adjusted stripe pattern;   creating a 2-D image of the adjusted stripe pattern; and   applying the adjusted stripe pattern to the garment based on the 2-D image to form the body-perception enhancing garment.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein applying the adjusted stripe pattern to the garment based on the 2-D image to form the body-perception enhancing garment further comprises:
 positioning the adjusted stripe pattern on the garment based on the positioning of the selected stripe on the 3-D body shape.   
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the shaping effect creates a halftone or shading gradient convex stripe. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the shaping effect creates a halftone or shading gradient concave stripe.