Patent ID: 9695529
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: D04B

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of making a knitted outer covering by generating a knitted outer covering pattern for a contour fit three-dimensional (3D) fully fashion knitted outer covering directly from a 3D digitalized surface, the method comprising: digitizing an exterior surface of an object to create a 3D object data cloud; recognizing one or more object's exterior landmarks from the 3D object data cloud; extracting one or more object's exterior measurements including geodesic measurements from the 3D object data cloud; generating one or more outer covering pattern blocks according to the extracted object's exterior measurements including geodesic measurements and a knitted outer covering style; and transforming the outer covering pattern blocks to a knitted outer covering pattern to be used in knitting the knitted outer covering by connecting together the outer covering pattern blocks and introducing one or more horizontal and vertical darts; wherein the geodesic measurements are measurements of shortest distance in 3D space between two points on the object's exterior surface; and wherein the horizontal and vertical darts are formation devices to create 3D-shaped structures of the knitted outer covering.