Carpet Tile Pattern Layering for Non-Repeating Seamless Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing carpet tile patterning technologies face challenges in creating non-repeating patterns that minimize seam discontinuities and patterning artifacts, while maintaining a unified design aesthetic, especially when large areas of carpet are viewed, and current methods often require tile rotation which can lead to issues like watermarking and seam problems.
Innovation Solution
An automated system generates unique, non-repeating patterns for carpet tiles using separately configurable pattern layers, with at least one common design element, allowing for geometric operations to enhance randomness and unify the installation, while preserving a single pile orientation and avoiding the need for tile rotation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional repeating patterns are used on carpet tiles, then manufacturing and installation are simple, but seam discontinuities and patterning artifacts become visually obtrusive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry by generating non-repeating, asymmetric patterns on each carpet tile that eliminate the periodicity causing visible seams and patterning artifacts. The algorithm creates unique irrational number-based patterns that do not repeat across tiles, making seam discontinuities imperceptible while maintaining aesthetic unity through controlled randomness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of pattern repetition to non-repetition by using irrational numbers and algorithmic generation. This parameter change transforms the pattern from periodic to aperiodic, eliminating the visual artifacts caused by repeating patterns while maintaining design coherence through shared algorithmic principles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If tile rotation is used to create visual variety, then pattern monotony is reduced, but watermarking and seam problems are introduced
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of rotating tiles to achieve visual variety, the patent inverts the approach by keeping all tiles in the same orientation and achieving variety through algorithmically generated non-repeating patterns on each tile. This eliminates the watermarking and seam problems caused by rotation while maintaining pattern diversity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses algorithmic copying of the pattern generation process rather than physical copying through tile rotation. Each tile receives a unique pattern generated by the same algorithm, ensuring visual variety without the harmful effects of rotation while maintaining consistency in pile orientation.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If non-repeating patterns are generated algorithmically, then seam discontinuities are minimized, but pattern generation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical pattern generation systems with a computational algorithm based on irrational numbers. This substitution reduces physical complexity while achieving the desired non-repeating patterns, as the algorithm can be implemented in software rather than requiring complex mechanical or manual processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal algorithm that can generate endless unique patterns from a single mathematical framework. This multi-functional approach allows the same algorithm to produce infinite pattern variations, reducing system complexity compared to maintaining multiple separate pattern libraries or generation methods.
4Illumination intensity
If large areas of carpet are viewed at low sight angles, then design lines and pattern anomalies become prominent, but maintaining small pattern repeats creates visual monotony
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses asymmetric, non-repeating patterns that eliminate the large-scale alignment of design elements causing prominent design lines when viewed at low angles. The irrational number-based generation ensures no two tiles have the same pattern arrangement, preventing the formation of visible design lines across large carpet areas.
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AI summary
An automated system for generating large numbers of digitally-defined patterns suitable for printing on textiles wherein each pattern is individually different but shares one or more unifying design motifs with all other patterns. In the general case, each pattern is comprised of at least two components in the form of separately configurable pattern layers that are digitally superimposed to form a composite pattern that is unique but visually related to all other unique patterns that use pattern layers taken from the same pattern sources.