Online Landscape Design Engine With Scoring and 3D Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Homeowners face challenges in generating visually coherent and robust landscape designs for their properties due to the complexity of selecting appropriate landscape elements and positioning them, often requiring professional assistance that is costly and intimidating.
Innovation Solution
An online landscape design system that utilizes a computing system with a calculator engine, landscape design engine, and scoring engine to generate landscape designs based on customer preferences, property parameters, and environmental features, incorporating algorithms like Generative Adversarial Network and Variational Auto Encoder to provide 3D-animated views and cost estimates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If homeowners hire professional landscape designers, then the quality and visual coherence of landscape design is improved, but the cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables homeowners to independently generate professional-quality landscape designs through an automated AI-driven platform. The design engine processes property data, environmental features, and customer preferences to produce customized landscape plans without requiring professional designer intervention, thereby eliminating the need to pay for expert services while maintaining design quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of human professional designers with an automated computational system. The landscape design engine uses algorithms to analyze property parameters, select appropriate landscape elements, and generate coherent designs automatically, substituting human expertise with machine-based design generation capabilities.
2Quantity of substance
If homeowners attempt to create landscape designs themselves, then the cost is reduced, but the difficulty and complexity of the task increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows homeowners to easily create their own landscape designs by simply inputting basic property information and preferences. The automated design engine handles the complex decision-making process, selecting and positioning landscape elements according to design principles without requiring the homeowner to have specialized knowledge or spend extensive time on the design process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an automated design engine as an intermediary between the homeowner and the final landscape design. This intermediary system translates simple customer inputs into professional-quality design outcomes, bridging the gap between novice user capability and expert-level design results without requiring direct homeowner expertise in landscape design principles.
3Reliability
If comprehensive landscape design principles and environmental considerations are incorporated, then the robustness and suitability of the design is improved, but the complexity of the design system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex manual analysis of environmental factors and design principles with an automated computational system. The design engine programmatically processes multiple environmental parameters (soil type, climate zone, sunlight exposure, water availability) and applies landscape design rules automatically, managing the complexity through algorithmic processing rather than human analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the complex landscape design process into distinct functional modules: data collection, environmental analysis, element selection, positioning optimization, and visualization. Each module handles specific aspects of the design process independently, managing overall system complexity by breaking down the comprehensive design task into manageable computational steps.
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AI summary
A method for generating an online landscape design for a property includes first providing a computing system comprising at least a memory storing computer-executable instructions of a landscaping application, and a processor coupled to the memory. The landscaping application comprises a calculator engine, a landscape design engine, and a scoring engine. Next, calculating a landscape score of a property by retrieving landscape data from online databases and comparing an existing landscape design of the property to the retrieved landscape data via the scoring engine. Next, determining property landscape improvements by the scoring engine, and then generating an improved landscape design for the property based on the property landscape improvements of the scoring engine using the landscape design engine. Next, calculating an improved landscape score of the improved design via the scoring engine and displaying a 3D-image of the property with the improved landscape design and the improved score.