Dynamic Design Mapping Across Non-Adjoined Packaging Surfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional methods for applying a single image across multiple packaging surfaces are limited by their inability to dynamically adjust to new source images, target geometries, or layouts, and typically operate in only two dimensions, neglecting the third dimension and surface peculiarities of packaging.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that dynamically apply a design across multiple product packages by calculating a display field based on package geometries and layouts, mapping a source image to generate field maps, and creating package images that account for individual package characteristics and three-dimensional features, allowing for preview and output.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If traditional manual techniques are used to design multiple packages as a unit, then coordination and cohesion of the display field is improved, but the effort and time required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical design processes with an automated computer-implemented system. The system automatically calculates display fields, maps source images, and generates package images based on input parameters, eliminating the need for tedious manual design while maintaining coordinated and cohesive display fields across multiple packages.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service automation where the computer-implemented package image generator autonomously performs display field calculations, image mapping, and package image generation based on provided source images and package geometries. The system serves itself by automatically adjusting parameters and generating consistent designs without human intervention in the creative process.
2Manufacturing precision
If fixed computational approaches are used to spread a design across packages, then the design can be applied to a specific installation, but the approach cannot dynamically adjust to new source images, target geometries, or layouts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic system where the computer-implemented package image generator can recalculate display fields and remap source images based on new input parameters. The system accepts new source images, target geometries, and layouts as inputs and automatically generates updated package images, providing both precision and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows dynamic changing of parameters including source images, package geometries, layouts, and display field configurations. By accepting these parameters as variable inputs, the system can recalculate and remap designs to accommodate different installations while maintaining manufacturing precision through automated calculation processes.
3Device complexity
If traditional approaches operate in only one or two dimensions, then the implementation is simpler, but the third dimension, empty space, and surface peculiarities of packaging are neglected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional image tiling to three-dimensional display field calculation. The system calculates display fields that account for package depth, orientation, and spatial relationships, properly utilizing the third dimension and empty space in packaging designs while maintaining reasonable implementation complexity through automated algorithms.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are described for dynamically applying a single design across a display field composed of visual surfaces of a number of non-adjoined product packages to create an impression of a single, unified aesthetic. Geometries and layouts of product packages are used to calculate a display field. A source image can be mapped to some or all of the display field to generate one or more field maps. Individual package images can be generated from the field maps, according to various factors, including the individual product package geometries and layouts. Some embodiments allow the generated package images to be previewed, the entire display field to be virtually previewed, and/or the package images to be output.