3D Stone Slab Visualization System for Fabrication Accuracy
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing processes for manufacturing and distributing stone slabs lack efficient visualization and selection methods, leading to increased costs and inefficiencies in the selection, fabrication, and installation processes, as well as challenges in quality control and customer satisfaction.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that generate and store digital images and metadata for stone slabs, allowing for realistic visualization in installation environments, reducing physical manipulation, and facilitating accurate selection, fabrication, and installation by using a production database and client application to create 3D scenes of stone slabs in target areas, with features like customizable edge styles and orientations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If digital representations of stone slabs are used to facilitate selection and visualization, then customer selection process is improved and physical manipulation is reduced, but manufacturing precision and quality control become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates high-resolution digital images and 3D models that serve as accurate copies of physical stone slabs. These digital representations capture surface characteristics, colors, and textures to enable realistic visualization for customer selection without requiring physical handling of actual slabs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary digital visualization and selection before physical fabrication. Customers can view and select stone slab designs digitally, and the system prepares digital models and specifications in advance, reducing the need for physical manipulation during the selection process.
2Reliability
If realistic visualization of stone slabs in installation environments is provided, then customer satisfaction is improved, but system complexity and processing burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server system as an intermediary between the database of stone slab images and the client application. The server handles image processing, 3D model generation, and scene composition, reducing the processing burden on client devices while delivering realistic visualizations to customers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides the visualization task into separate components: storing base stone slab images in a database, processing and generating 3D scenes on the server, and displaying results on client devices. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, managing overall system complexity.
3Manufacturing precision
If accurate dimensional representation and geometry determination are implemented, then fabrication precision is improved, but processing time and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system determines the geometry of target areas and performs dimensional calculations in advance during the visualization phase. The server processes and stores geometric data along with the 3D models, so that when fabrication occurs, the precise measurements are already available, reducing on-site measurement and calculation time.
4Productivity
If physical manipulation of stone slabs is reduced through digital visualization, then cost is reduced and efficiency is improved, but measurement and detection accuracy may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates high-fidelity digital copies of stone slabs that preserve all surface characteristics, dimensions, and textures. These digital models serve as accurate representations that can be measured and analyzed without touching the physical slabs, maintaining measurement accuracy while eliminating physical handling.
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AI summary
This document describes systems and processes of manufacturing, visualizing, and distributing stone slabs. In an exemplary embodiment, a 3D scene may be generated that depicts a portion of a major surface of a stone slab at a target area of a slab installation environment.