Room Configuration System Using Layered Image Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Designing a room involves numerous decisions with interdependent choices, where constraints on one decision limit options for others, making it challenging to efficiently configure and visualize the final product.
Innovation Solution
An automated system using layering functionality and frame-based inferences, supplemented by a rules-based system, allows for interactive configuration through a graphics-based user interface, incorporating two-dimensional and three-dimensional models, engineering specifications, and physical attributes, to simplify the processing of numerous high-quality images and present users with customizable room configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If numerous high-quality images are used to present room configurations, then visualization accuracy is improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments room configuration images into multiple layers (e.g., structural layer, furniture layer, decorative layer). Each layer can be independently manipulated, allowing the system to present detailed visualizations without requiring a single complex monolithic image for each configuration option.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from presenting room configurations in a single two-dimensional image space to using multi-layered three-dimensional spatial representations. This allows users to visualize room configurations from multiple angles and depths while reducing the total number of required images through intelligent layer composition.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all possible room configuration options are presented, then user choice and customization are improved, but information processing and presentation complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic constraint management where the set of available configuration options is automatically adjusted based on previously made selections. As users make decisions about certain room attributes, the system dynamically updates the valid option sets for remaining attributes, eliminating impossible combinations and reducing the search space.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors user selections and provides real-time information about constraint satisfaction. When a user selects an option that affects other configuration possibilities, the system immediately updates the interface to reflect new constraints, guiding users through the configuration process efficiently.
3Manufacturing precision
If detailed engineering specifications and physical attributes are incorporated, then configuration accuracy is improved, but processing time and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary processing of engineering specifications and physical attributes during system initialization and data preparation phases. Configuration constraints, valid option sets, and attribute relationships are pre-computed and stored in optimized data structures, allowing the interactive configuration process to operate with minimal real-time computation.
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An automated system and method is provided for configuring an object (e.g., a room). In accordance with a preferred embodiment, configuration is facilitated through the use of layering functionality and frame-based inferences to evaluate stored knowledge of object attributes. The frame-based inferences may be supplemented by a rules-based inference system. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, a graphics-based user interface may be used to permit interactive configuration using two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of the object, and incorporating engineering specifications, as well as functional and physical attributes.