Borderless Trading Card with Segmented Memorabilia
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional trading cards with game-used memorabilia, such as uniform swatches, cannot be easily reassembled into a contiguous visual representation due to the presence of a border or frame around the memorabilia, making it impossible for collectors to verify the authenticity and assembly of collected pieces.
Innovation Solution
The cards are designed with borderless cut edges, allowing memorabilia attributes to be divided between multiple cards, and each card includes unique indicia for identification, along with a remotely accessible registry for ownership and exchange, enabling collectors to reassemble the set accurately.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a border or frame is added around the memorabilia on trading cards, then the memorabilia is protected and contained, but it becomes impossible to reassemble the memorabilia into a contiguous visual representation
Solution Approach 1:
The memorabilia panel is segmented into multiple trading cards, with each card containing a portion of the original memorabilia. The segmentation is designed so that when cards are assembled in the correct sequence, the memorabilia portions form a contiguous visual representation without gaps or borders between them.
Solution Approach 2:
The border or frame element is extracted and removed from the design. Instead of adding borders around each memorabilia portion, the cards are designed with borderless edges that allow direct contact between adjacent cards, enabling seamless reassembly of the memorabilia panel.
2Quantity of substance
If the memorabilia is divided into multiple cards, then more cards can be collected to form a complete set, but it becomes difficult to verify that all cards came from the same original panel
Solution Approach 1:
Each trading card is provided with unique local quality features, including specific indicia, serial numbers, or authentication markers that are distinct to that card yet linked to the original panel. This allows verification of each card's origin while maintaining the ability to identify the complete set as deriving from a single panel.
3Ease of manufacture
If borderless cut edges are used, then cards can be reassembled into a contiguous visual representation, but the edges may be more susceptible to damage or wear
Solution Approach 1:
The card design incorporates asymmetric features where the borderless cut edges are positioned strategically to minimize exposure to damage. The memorabilia portions are arranged so that edges most likely to be handled or subjected to wear are protected by the card structure, while still allowing contiguous assembly of the visual representation.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a collector-targeted, memorabilia-bearing trading card set. Each comprises a plurality of cards originating from and assembleable into a set. Each card is formed from at least two layers of material, a first layer being at least a portion of memorabilia having a visual attribute exposed on one side of the card and a second layer that comprises a substrate providing an opposite side surface of the card. The opposite side surface has indicia conveying information related to the memorabilia of the first layer and associating it with the set from which it originated. The memorabilia attribute is positioned to have a portion of the attribute divided between at least two of the cards and extending across adjoining, cut edge portions of at least two cards of the set.