Patent ID: 7133740

Claim:
An automated closet system comprising: a garment storage area comprising a garment conveyor comprising a movable garment rack that is operable to move through the garment storage area; a conveyer controller coupled to the garment conveyor; a server computer coupled to the conveyor controller that comprises a database for storing file records including digital photographs of garments, and identification tags of hanger on which each garment is placed; a digital camera coupled to the server computer for digitally photographing each garment that is to be stored; a scanner coupled to the server computer for reading unique hanger identifiers contained in identification tags and barcode tags associated with each hanger; and a control unit coupled to the server computer for storing images of each stored garment and for transmitting instructions to photograph a garment, read a hanger identification tag, load a scanned hanger holding a photographed garment in the garment storage area, and retrieve a garment selected from the stored images from the garment storage area.