Method and system for utilizing fabric as storage medium

Abstract

This invention provides a digital technology based on fabric weave for the encoding, identification and decoding of information. A method for storing information in fabric based on weaving, knitting, braiding or other yarn interlacing styles, comprising: inputting information into a computer; converting each unit of the information to a corresponding unit of a binary code; converting each the corresponding code unit into a unit matrix of weave code presenting by 0 and 1; or converting each unit of the information to a unit matrix of weave code presenting by 0 and 1 directly; generating a weave code matrix consisting of all the unit matrixes; manufacturing a piece of fabric according to the weave code matrix, wherein 1 represents warp on a weft and 0 represents weft on a warp.

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BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION[0001]1. Field of Invention[0002]The invention relates to a method and system for utilizing fabric as storage medium, which has the function of information encoding and decoding based on weave code for the application of information recording, transferring, protecting, logical operating and information management.[0003]2. Description of Related Arts[0004]The weave pattern of woven fabric can be considered as its fingerprint or DNA; each weave pattern is uniquely endowed by a set of yarn interlacing styles with its own yarn count, density and other structural parameters. However, the understanding and utilization of weave is still limited to fabric designing and manufacturing for wearing function. The ability of representing and carrying information based on the weave of fabric has been omitted till now.[0005]The natural and unique property of woven fabrics can aid in the development of smart digital products. As all other forms of paper printing, f...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]It is an object of the present invention to provide an encoding, identification and decoding method and system based on fabric weave, which has lots of potential applications, such as product identification, quality control, product tracing, development of authorizable ribbon products, copyright protection of weave design, wearable ID system, etc.

Problems solved by technology

However, the understanding and utilization of weave is still limited to fabric designing and manufacturing for wearing function.

In the past ten years, many researchers have been engaged in the development of objective evaluation system for the identification of fabric weave, which is a digital tool for fabric designing and re-engineering instead of manual operation based on pin and human eyes, however, some limitations of these image-based methods make it difficult to be accepted for the real industry applications.

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