Layered Textile Pattern Generation for Seamless Carpet Tiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing carpet tile patterning systems face challenges in creating non-repeating patterns that minimize seam discontinuities and patterning artifacts, while maintaining a unified design and preserving pile orientation, which are often exacerbated by the expectation of uniformity and symmetry in large-scale installations.
Innovation Solution
An automated system generates composite patterns using separately configurable pattern layers, where a base layer and overlay layers are digitally superimposed to create unique, visually related patterns with shared design elements, allowing for geometric manipulations to enhance randomness and unify the installation, while maintaining a consistent pile orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a repeating pattern is used on carpet tiles, then manufacturing and design are simplified, 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 rather than using symmetric repeating patterns. This asymmetry disrupts the visual alignment that causes seam discontinuities and patterning artifacts to become apparent, while the patterns remain aesthetically pleasing and unified through shared design elements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the pattern generation process into multiple independent layers (base layer, overlay layers) that are digitally superimposed. This segmentation allows each layer to contribute unique random elements while maintaining overall design coherence, effectively masking seam discontinuities without requiring complete pattern repetition across all tiles
2Stability of the object's composition
If design elements align into rows across multiple tiles, then pattern consistency is achieved, but large-scale pattern anomalies and design lines become visually obtrusive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamics by using random or pseudo-random generation algorithms that create varying patterns on each tile. This dynamic approach prevents static alignment of design elements into obtrusive rows, while maintaining visual consistency through shared color palettes and design motifs across all tiles
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds another dimension to pattern generation by using multiple digitally superimposed layers (base layer, overlay layers). This multi-layered approach creates complexity in the vertical dimension that masks large-scale pattern anomalies and prevents design elements from aligning into problematic rows across tiles
3Area of stationary object
If multiple carpet tiles are installed to cover large areas, then coverage is achieved, but the expectation of uniformity and symmetry exacerbates visible patterning artifacts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry across the entire carpet installation by ensuring each tile has a unique asymmetric pattern. This breaks the uniformity expectation that would otherwise make patterning artifacts and seam discontinuities apparent across large installed areas
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses multi-layer digital superposition to create patterns with complexity in multiple dimensions. This layered approach masks patterning artifacts when tiles are installed over large areas, as the combined visual information from multiple layers prevents obvious repetition and alignment issues
Data Source
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.