Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090037298 | Product Design System and Method - Computer-implemented product design creation system and method for quickly developing a product design having desirable component elements. Multiple candidate product designs are simultaneously displayed for review. Controls are provided allowing a reviewer to enter a preference level for individual component elements of each of the displayed designs. A new set of candidate designs is created based on the entered preference levels. The new candidate designs are displayed for further review and further preference level selection. | 02-05-2009 |
20090066697 | CARICATURE TOOL - Pre-designing caricatures is inflexible and hinders the design process. Accordingly, a technique for rendering a caricature made up of at least one caricature part is provided. For a subject caricature, each caricature part is sized and positioned based on the size and position of a base connection point. Each caricature part has at least one piece. Each piece is assigned a respective layer for purposes of rendering and is rendered in order according to the layer assigned to the piece. A complete caricature is assembled from each caricature part, each being sized, positioned, and ordered based on the steps of sizing, positioning, and ordering. Rendering the complete caricature in this flexible manner enables a diversity of caricatures to be rendered without having to create an entire library of possible caricatures. In this way, the design process is enhanced. | 03-12-2009 |
20090067753 | DYNAMIC SIZING AND POSITIONING OF MULTIPLE IMAGES - A method of arranging images provides for automated scaling, positioning and organizing of a plurality of images on an image display, which may be transferred to a printed or electronic product design. A plurality of images are analyzed to produce image data. Display parameters determine permissible arrangement of the images. Based on the image data and the display parameters, an arrangement on the image display for each of the plurality of images is defined. The arrangement may be further defined to maximize at least one dimension of the images. | 03-12-2009 |
20090135204 | AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING - Automated electronic document design systems and methods for appropriately sizing and positioning uploaded user images into predefined image areas in a product design being created in a Web environment. For an image that is not to be cropped when incorporated into the design, the image is sized to fit within the selected image area and positioned in the image area according to a predefined anchor location The aspect ratio of the original image is maintained. For an image that is available for cropping when incorporated into the design, the image is sized and cropped to create a version of the image that fills the image container. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138364 | PRODUCT MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Computer-implemented systems and method for generating personalized email communications soliciting orders of custom products. Product reorder candidates are identified from customer records and a personalized email order solicitation is sent to the customer. The email is adapted to display an image of the customer's previously designed custom product either exactly as originally designed or, if appropriate, as automatically updated prior to displaying to the user. | 05-28-2009 |
20090198571 | RELATED PRODUCT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically creating a second customized product design incorporating information from a first customized product design. Information from a first custom product design is automatically combined with additional automatically selected content to create a new custom product to be promoted to the customer. When possible, information known about the customer, such as the customer's geographic location or business interests, is used to select the additional content for incorporation into the design. | 08-06-2009 |
20090204891 | AUTOMATED PRODUCT LAYOUT - Methods and computer programs for automatically creating a text layout in an electronic design for a product to be printed. A number of defined text elements are available for user text entries. The product layout is based a user-selected image, if any, and on the text elements having user-supplied text content. Text elements without text content are disregarded. Positioning of user text entries is determined based on the size of the text entries, defined text element spacing distances, and defined positioning rules. Creating a layout incorporating user-supplied text entries and/or image may include cropping or resizing of other design elements in the product design and wrapping of relatively long text entries onto multiple lines. | 08-13-2009 |
20090249193 | Flexible web page template building system and method - A flexible web page template and template building tool which generates templates that grow and shrink according to an amount of user content. | 10-01-2009 |
20100131839 | AUTOMATED MARKUP LANGUAGE LAYOUT - Methods and computer programs for automatically creating a text layout in a markup language design for a product to be printed. A number of defined text elements are available for user text. The layout is based on the text elements having user text content. Text elements without text content are disregarded. Positioning of the text elements is determined based on the height of the text elements, defined text element spacing distances, and a defined positioning order. Creating a layout may include positioning design elements relative to the text elements. Font sizes and spacing distances are automatically reduced if necessary to create a suitable layout. | 05-27-2010 |
20100328335 | REPRESENTING A PRINTED PRODUCT USING PIXEL OPACITY AND COLOR MODIFICATION - An original design image is processed to create a modified design image for blending with an image of a product to create a combined image representing the result of printing the design image onto the product. To create a modified design image, both the alpha value and color of pixels in the original design image are modified. The modified alpha value and the modified color of a pixel are determined as a function of the amount of gray in the original color of the pixel. The modified pixel color is calculated by subtracting the level of gray in the original pixel color from each of the three original component color values and increasing any remaining color component values as a function of the modified alpha value of the pixel. | 12-30-2010 |
20110091133 | AUTOMATED IMAGE FRAMING - Cropping and sizing operations are performed on master frame images to create a plurality of component frame images for a content image. The component frame images are positioned relative to the component image so as to form a frame image for the content image. | 04-21-2011 |
20110276428 | RELATED PRODUCT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically creating a second customized product design incorporating information from a first customized product design. Information from a first custom product design is automatically combined with additional automatically selected content to create a new custom product to be promoted to the customer. When possible, information known about the customer, such as the customer's geographic location or business interests, is used to select the additional content for incorporation into the design. | 11-10-2011 |
20110286675 | Automated Image Sizing and Placement - Versions of user-selected content images are automatically created, sized, and positioned within a template such that all versions are simultaneously displayed without overlapping in a defined acceptable image area of the template. Creating the content image versions may include creating a frame image for the content image. A predefined anchor point associated with the acceptable image area is used to control the location of the image versions within the image area. | 11-24-2011 |
20120120111 | AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING - Automated electronic document design systems and methods for appropriately sizing and positioning uploaded user images into predefined image areas in a product design being created in a Web environment. For an image that is not to be cropped when incorporated into the design, the image is sized to fit within the selected image area and positioned in the image area according to a predefined anchor location. The aspect ratio of the original image is maintained. For an image that is available for cropping when incorporated into the design, the image is sized and cropped to create a version of the image that fills the image container. | 05-17-2012 |
20120272140 | FLEXIBLE WEB PAGE TEMPLATE BUILDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A flexible web page template and template building tool which generates templates that grow and shrink according to an amount of user content. | 10-25-2012 |
20120272141 | FLEXIBLE WEB PAGE TEMPLATE BUILDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An auto-expanding navigation area for a web page is presented which allows a user to select a number of buttons to be displayed in the navigation area and which automatically identically sizes and displays the selected number of buttons in the navigation area and automatically expands or reduces the navigation area based on the number of buttons. | 10-25-2012 |
20120272165 | PRODUCT DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD - Computer-implemented product design creation system and method for quickly developing a product design having desirable component elements. Multiple candidate product designs are simultaneously displayed for review. Controls are provided allowing a reviewer to enter a preference level for individual component elements of each of the displayed designs. A new set of candidate designs is created based on the entered preference levels. The new candidate designs are displayed for further review and further preference level selection. | 10-25-2012 |
20140132636 | DYNAMIC SIZING AND POSITIONING OF MULTIPLE IMAGES - A system of arranging images provides for automated scaling, positioning and organizing of a plurality of images on an image display, which may be transferred to a printed or electronic product design. A plurality of images are analyzed to produce image data. Display parameters determine permissible arrangement of the images. Based on the image data and the display parameters, an arrangement on the image display for each of the plurality of images is defined. The arrangement may be further defined to maximize at least one dimension of the images. | 05-15-2014 |