Patent ID: 6907310

Claim:
A method of processing information relating to a garment, the method comprising: providing or obtaining information defining the 3D shape of a garment designed to fit and as worn by a first body of a person of a first size and shape; providing or obtaining data defining the first body's size and shape in 3D without the garment in question; identifying defined body regions on the first body; identifying one or more design points on the garment, each design point being related in 3D to one or more the defined body regions of the first body person; providing relationship rules that define the said 3D relationships between said design points and said body regions; storing data defining the garment, the design points, the body regions, and the relationship rules, and providing data defining a second body size and shape in three dimensions; processing said data to identify the defined body regions of the second body; and modifying the data for the garment to define a modified 3D garment which fits the second body by bringing each design point into a predetermined relationship with the associated body region of the second body through the use of the relationship rules.