A multimedia set-top box with PDTC simulation

The development of technology and improvement of living quality lead to the increase in demand for the diversity of functions of set-top box (STB). In this paper, a service of virtual experience of wearing clothes is introduced to the STB, which aims at offering a subjective perception of dynamic thermal comfort to the customers who want to buy clothes through STB. The implementation of this service is by simulating the heat and moisture transferring in textiles on the basis of the theory of PDTC simulation. Additionally, we adopted linking method rather than traditional embedding method to append our service to the STB, because embedding the functional module into the middleware of STB would cause a series of compatibility problems due to the high complexity of the module of PDTC simulation. Finally, the application of the whole system is presented.