US 12,444,212 B2
Systems and method for textile fabric definition
Keith Hoover, Oxford, OH (US)
Assigned to BLACK SWAN TEXTILES, Oxford, OH (US)
Filed by Black Swan Textiles, Oxford, OH (US)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/495,472.
Application 18/495,472 is a division of application No. 17/453,976, filed on Nov. 8, 2021, granted, now 11,847,842.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/112,814, filed on Nov. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0054796 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. G06V 20/64 (2022.01); D04B 15/66 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/647 (2022.01) [D04B 15/66 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for analyzing a fabric to determine a construction thereof. the method comprising:
receiving a digital image of at least a portion of a fabric sample;
using a computer-based process, performing an image analysis using digital image processing technology to identify stitch parameters from the digital image, wherein the stitch parameters include determining of: a stitch type, a courses per inch parameter a wales per inch parameter and/or a yarn thickness for at least one strand of yarn;
comparing identified stitch parameters to parameters stored in a database of a plurality of digital build specifications, each of the plurality of digital build specifications associated with at least one of a plurality of known fabric constructions; associating one or more fabrics with the digital image based on the comparing; and
generating a digital build specification that is based at least partly on a loop map that is a sequence of stitch types, wherein the digital build specification objectively identifies the construction of the portion of the fabric sample for further use including for: search by fabric designers, digital export as a file for use in setting up a fabric knitting machine, and construction of the fabric at another location.