Dynamic Design Template Automation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for customizing product designs, such as online design studios, are tedious and inefficient, requiring manual replacement of template elements and lack flexibility in aesthetics, making it difficult for users to create visually appealing and consistent designs for products like business cards.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that automatically generates product designs by receiving search terms, identifying images and design elements, determining a dominant color, and modifying templates by replacing default images and elements with user-selected ones, applying the dominant color to enhance the design aesthetic.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual template customization is used, then design flexibility is achieved, but time consumption and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign flexibilityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic template customization without requiring manual user intervention. The processor automatically retrieves design elements based on search terms, determines dominant colors, and applies modifications to templates, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring continuous user input and adjustment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-retrieves design elements from databases before the actual design generation process. By having design elements ready and pre-organized in databases based on search terms, the system eliminates the need for manual searching and selection during the customization process, significantly reducing time consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If manual element replacement is required, then design precision can be controlled, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign precisionVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs element replacement by retrieving relevant design elements from databases based on search terms and automatically substituting them into templates. The processor also automatically determines dominant colors and applies them consistently across design elements, eliminating manual replacement tasks while maintaining design precision through algorithmic consistency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The manual mechanical process of selecting and replacing design elements is substituted with an automated information processing system. The processor retrieves elements from databases using search terms and automatically applies them to templates, replacing the manual mechanical interaction with an automated digital process that maintains precision while improving ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Stability of the object's composition

If consistent color schemes are applied, then aesthetic quality improves, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic consistencyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines the dominant color parameter from retrieved design elements and applies this color parameter consistently across all design elements in the template. By focusing on a single key parameter (dominant color) and automatically extracting and applying it, the system achieves aesthetic consistency without requiring complex manual color matching or coordination across multiple parameters

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11392762B2Technologies for managing dynamic design templates
Publication Date: 2022.07.19 CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
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AI summary

Systems and methods for automatically generating product designs according to search queries. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may present a set of default templates associated with one or more products. The electronic device may facilitate a search using inputted keywords, and identify a set of images and/or design elements according to the search. The electronic device may modify the set of default templates by incorporating various of the images and/or design elements. A user may select different functionalities associated with the modified templates, including selecting to place a product order.