Label Creation Apparatus with Decorative Frame Window
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing label creation technologies face challenges in accurately arranging functional objects like barcodes and QR codes within decorative frames, leading to information imperfections due to hiding or excessive reduction, which complicates data reading.
Innovation Solution
A label creation apparatus and method that includes a drawing processing section to arrange functional objects within a window area of a decorative frame or extend to the outermost contour of the label image based on user specification, ensuring the object is not hidden and maximizing visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If a functional object is arranged in a decorative frame using conventional methods, then the label has aesthetic appearance, but part of the functional object is hidden behind the frame causing information loss
Solution Approach 1:
The decorative frame is segmented into a window area (transparent region) and a frame body. The functional object is specifically arranged within the window area, separating the decorative function from the information display function, thus avoiding information loss while maintaining aesthetic appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame is designed with different properties in different regions: the window area is transparent to allow full visibility of the functional object, while the frame body provides decorative function. This local differentiation ensures both aesthetics and information integrity.
2Area of stationary object
If a functional object is reduced in size to fit within a decorative frame, then the frame can contain the object, but the image pattern degrades making information difficult to understand
Solution Approach 1:
The window area is pre-designed with sufficient dimensions to accommodate the functional object at its optimal size before printing. This preliminary sizing ensures the functional object maintains adequate resolution and clarity without requiring excessive reduction.
3Loss of information
If a functional object is enlarged to extend to the outermost contour of the label, then the information is more visible, but the object cannot be contained within a decorative frame
Solution Approach 1:
The solution adds a spatial dimension by creating a window area within the frame structure. This allows the functional object to extend to the outermost contour of the label while remaining contained within the decorative frame through the window area, simultaneously achieving both information visibility and aesthetic containment.
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AI summary
A label creation apparatus includes a drawing processing section that draws a label image of a label, a first object specifying section that arranges a first object in the label image, a second object specifying section that specifies whether or not a second object having a window area transparent to the first object and having a drawing area along the outermost contour of the label image is arranged in the label image, and the drawing processing section arranges the first object in the label image in such a way that the first object falls within the window area of the second object when the second object is arranged, whereas arranging the first object in the label image in such a way that the first object extends to an area containing the outermost contour of the label image when the second object is not arranged.