Standardizing CAD Product Views via Rendering Parameter Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Product CAD models in catalogs often display products with varying orientations, scales, and angles, leading to inconsistent and ununiform views within the same product category, affecting the visual appearance and photorealism of product catalogs.
Innovation Solution
An image rendering computing system standardizes product views by manipulating parameters such as orientation, scale, and lighting of CAD models to synthesize uniform product images across categories, using algorithms like scanline rendering, ray casting, and neural rendering, ensuring consistent orientations, scales, and angles for products like screws and bolts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manufacturers or distributors generate product CAD models independently, then product catalogs can be created with diverse product views, but the product views will vary in orientation, scale, lighting, and angles across the same product category
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically adjusts rendering parameters including orientation, scale, lighting, and camera angles to standardize product views. By dynamically modifying these parameters through automated rendering processes, the system maintains consistency across product catalogs while preserving the ability to handle diverse product types and categories.
2Productivity
If standard rendering processes are used for product CAD models, then product images can be generated quickly, but the visual appearance and photorealism of product catalogs will be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary setup of rendering parameters, lighting configurations, and camera positions before the actual rendering process. By pre-configuring these elements and using automated workflows, the system achieves both high visual quality and efficient processing speeds, eliminating the need for manual adjustment while maintaining photorealistic standards.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein standardize product views of product images in the product catalog such that these products are displayed with substantially similar products views with respect to one another in the product catalog to enhance the visual appearance, or photorealism, of the product catalog. As such, the products within the same category of products, for example, the screws and bolts as described above, are illustrated in the product catalog with similar product views, for example, similar orientations, similar scales, and/or similar angles, with respect to one another. From the example above, even though the product CAD models can portray the products within the category of products using the standard right-side product view or the standard front-side product view, these systems, methods, and apparatuses standardize the product views of these products in the product catalog to be substantially uniform, for example, have substantially similar product views, with respect to one another to enhance the visual appearance, or photorealism, of the product catalog.