SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING HIGH QUALITY RENDERINGS AND GENERATING MANUFACTURING OUTPUT OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS

    公开(公告)号:US20230384922A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US17827726

    申请日:2022-05-29

    申请人: ZAZZLE INC.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/04847

    CPC分类号: G06F3/04847

    摘要: In some embodiments, a method for processing and controlling a collection of data to generate output using a dynamic system comprises: providing the dynamic system for generating digital representations of physical products; providing a control system having two or more data modules, the two or more data modules being communicatively coupled to receive collection data, for a physical product of the physical products, from the dynamic system and implementing a plurality of switches; activating the dynamic system to read and process the collection data received from the dynamic system; and using the two or more data modules of the control system, generating, based on the collection data, output that satisfies conditions set forth using the plurality of switches; generating a digital representation of the output as a series of user interface elements for a user to control, modify, and view the digital representation of the physical product using one or more common user interface classes available on a digital platform.

    INTERFACING WITH THIRD PARTY PLATFORMS VIA COLLABORATION SESSIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20230125873A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17507468

    申请日:2021-10-21

    申请人: ZAZZLE INC.

    IPC分类号: G06Q30/06 G06Q10/10

    摘要: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, at a computer collaboration computer, first customized product data from a first plugin executing on a first user device accessing a plurality of capabilities of a third party platform; wherein the first customized product data are associated with product description data for an interactive digital design; wherein the first customized product data have been created using the plurality of capabilities of the third party platform accessed from the first user device; generating, by the computer collaboration computer, first product description data for the interactive digital design by updating the product description data for the interactive digital design using the first customized product data; publishing, at the computer collaboration computer, the first product description data

    AUTOMATED APPLICATION OF CUT THERMAL ADHESIVE FILMS

    公开(公告)号:US20230045371A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17968458

    申请日:2022-10-18

    申请人: Zazzle Inc.

    发明人: Young Harvill

    摘要: Method of manufacturing a substrate with a cut thermal film comprises obtaining an input digital image of a design to be transferred to the substrate; storing the input image in memory; rendering design elements of the design as a single output image; based upon a bleed size value, a maximum number of negative areas, a maximum number of positive areas, and attribute values: resizing the image to include a border for bleed; filling transparent areas of the image with the substrate attribute values; creating a cutting path; creating a mask image; inverting the mask image; modifying the mask image to adjust fill areas around details, to limit negative areas to be less than the maximum number of negative areas, and to limit positive areas to be less than the maximum number of positive areas; creating cutting path data in memory as a vector path outlining the mask image.

    COLLABORATIVE VIDEO CHAT SCREEN SHARING USING A DIGITAL PRODUCT COLLABORATION PLATFORM

    公开(公告)号:US20230030662A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17389114

    申请日:2021-07-29

    申请人: ZAZZLE INC.

    摘要: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving an indication of a particular design style; determining, based on the indication, functional product groups that comprise a plurality of custom products having indicia of the particular design style; initiating a collaboration session between a user and one or more collaborators to allow selecting one or more particular custom products; in response to receiving a selection of the particular custom products, generating a group of customized products comprising the one or more particular custom products, each particular customized product associated with a product type of a plurality of product types, each product type of the plurality of product types associated with a manufacturing constraint of multiple manufacturing constraints, each particular customized product having shared content that all of the one or more particular custom products share; obtaining manufacturing methods for manufacturing the customized particular products; and proceeding to manufacturing.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH QUALITY RENDERINGS OF SYNTHETIC VIEWS OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220129964A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-28

    申请号:US17501513

    申请日:2021-10-14

    申请人: Zazzle Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06Q30/06 G06T11/00

    摘要: In some embodiments, a data processing method for generating a synthetic view rendering of a custom product, the method comprises: generating a calibrated product renderings asset of a referenced physical product by: based on user input received for a digital asset corresponding to the referenced physical product, generating user-driven settings for a plurality of product option parametric key-values, applying the plurality of product option parametric key-values to the digital asset to generate the calibrated product rendering asset; rendering the calibrated product rendering asset using a coverage buffer and a coverage map to generate a final image; causing displaying the final image on a display device.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL MARKUPS OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210375017A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US17387154

    申请日:2021-07-28

    申请人: Zazzle Inc.

    发明人: YOUNG HARVILL

    摘要: Techniques for generating and using digital markups on digital images are presented. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at an electronic device, a digital layout image that represents a form of a product for manufacturing a reference product; generating a digital markup layout by overlaying the digital markup image over the digital layout image; based on the digital markup layout, generating one or more manufacturing files comprising digital data for manufacturing the reference product; receiving a digital reference image of the reference product manufactured based on the one or more manufacturing files; identifying one or more found markup regions in the digital reference image; based on the found markup regions, generating a geometry map and an interactive asset image; based on, at least in part, the geometry map, generating a customized product image by applying a user pattern to the interactive asset image.

    System and method for digital markups of custom products

    公开(公告)号:US11080912B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-03

    申请号:US16791977

    申请日:2020-02-14

    申请人: ZAZZLE INC.

    发明人: Young Harvill

    摘要: Techniques for generating and using digital markups on digital images are presented. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at an electronic device, a digital layout image that represents a form of a product for manufacturing a reference product; generating a digital markup layout by overlaying the digital markup image over the digital layout image; based on the digital markup layout, generating one or more manufacturing files comprising digital data for manufacturing the reference product; receiving a digital reference image of the reference product manufactured based on the one or more manufacturing files; identifying one or more found markup regions in the digital reference image; based on the found markup regions, generating a geometry map and an interactive asset image; based on, at least in part, the geometry map, generating a customized product image by applying a user pattern to the interactive asset image.