Automated Interior Layout Generation Based on User Style

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for designing interior layouts, especially using virtual reality and augmented reality, require professional expertise and are time-consuming and costly, as they involve manual processing of three-dimensional data, which can lead to inaccuracies due to data processing limitations.

Innovation Solution

An automated interior layout method and apparatus that acquires indoor structure information, analyzes user style input, and generates interior layout automation information, including space and furniture arrangement, to produce intuitive and varied design options without requiring professional expertise.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If manual processing of three-dimensional data is used to generate interior layouts, then professional expertise and control over design quality are improved, but time consumption and cost increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign qualityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing indoor structure information and pre-establishing design rules before actual layout generation. This preparation work enables the automated generation process to proceed efficiently without requiring professional intervention during the main design phase, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining quality through rule-based control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service by automatically generating interior layouts through algorithms that process indoor structure information and apply design rules independently. The automated generation unit creates multiple layout options without human intervention, and the selection unit allows users to choose preferred designs, eliminating the need for professional designers while maintaining reasonable design quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If manual processing of three-dimensional data is used to generate interior layouts, then professional expertise and control over design quality are improved, but cost increases excessively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign qualityVSAvoidcost
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically generating interior layouts through algorithms that process indoor structure information and apply design rules independently. The automated generation unit creates multiple layout options without human intervention, and the selection unit allows users to choose preferred designs, eliminating the need for professional designers while maintaining reasonable design quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses copying by replicating successful design patterns and rules from existing interior designs. The design rules database stores proven design principles that can be copied and applied to new projects, ensuring consistent quality without requiring expensive professional expertise for each individual design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If three-dimensional construction modeling is performed from scan information or drawings, then accurate interior representation is improved, but data processing complexity and manual work increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveaccuracyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing indoor structure information to extract essential spatial parameters before layout generation. This preparation work converts complex scan data or drawings into simplified structural representations that retain accuracy while reducing processing complexity for subsequent automated operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies extraction by isolating and extracting only the essential indoor structure information needed for layout generation from comprehensive scan data or drawings. This selective extraction removes unnecessary complexity while preserving the critical spatial relationships and dimensions required for accurate interior representation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Manufacturing precision

If furniture and objects are precisely installed and harmoniously arranged in three-dimensional space, then design quality and harmony are improved, but the difficulty increases for non-professional users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearrangement qualityVSAvoiduser difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically generating interior layouts through algorithms that process indoor structure information and apply design rules independently. The automated generation unit creates multiple layout options without human intervention, and the selection unit allows users to choose preferred designs, eliminating the need for professional designers while maintaining reasonable design quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses copying by replicating successful design patterns and rules from existing interior designs. The design rules database stores proven design principles that can be copied and applied to new projects, ensuring consistent quality without requiring expensive professional expertise for each individual design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20230125988A1Method for automating space and interior layouts based on user style and apparatus therefor
Publication Date: 2023.04.27 ARCHIDRAW INC
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AI summary

An operation method for an interior layout apparatus, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: acquiring indoor structure information of a user; generating interior layout automation information including a space layout and interior layout design determined in correspondence to the indoor structure information, according to processing of the analysis of style information corresponding to the user; and outputting the interior layout automation information.