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US 10,311,494 B2Granted
Print product designer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsZachi Karni, Mani Fischer, Doron Shaked, Adriane De Quevedo Cardozo, Randall Edward Grohs
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Abstract
A print product designer provides for selection of spatial-structural components and includes a display module to display a visual representation of a print product incorporating selected spatial-structural components.
Claims19
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine readable instructions to provide a user interface for designing a print product, the user interface comprising:
- a display module to display a menu of selectable spatial-structural components for print products and a three-dimensional visual representation of an at least partially assembled print product, the spatial-structural components each comprising a portion of a print product model, the three-dimensional visual representation switchable within the display module among a first representation in which selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in assembled form, a second representation in which the selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in exploded form, and a third representation in which the selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in partially exploded, partially assembled form;
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- a design module comprising:
- a component selector module cooperative with the display module to enable user selection of the spatial-structural components, the component selector module of the design module cooperatively enabling the user selection with the display module via the component selector module providing a workflow of selections of the spatial-structural components of the print product and the display module providing an immediate visual representation of the print product being built,
- wherein the design module causes each selected spatial-structural component to be incorporated into the three-dimensional visual representation simultaneously with the user selection,
- wherein the selected spatial-structural components as designed within the user interface is printed and assembled, creating an assembled print product.
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A print product design system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a memory device communicatively coupled to the processor;
- a display module to display a menu of selectable spatial-structural components and a three-dimensional visual representation of a print product model that comprises at least one selected spatial-structural component, the spatial-structural components each comprising a structural portion of the print product model, the three-dimensional visual representation switchable within the display module among a first representation in which selected spatial-structural components of a print product are depicted in assembled form, a second representation in which the selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in exploded form, and a third representation in which the selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in partially exploded, partially assembled form;
- a design module cooperable with the display module to guide design of the print product model via a workflow comprising a series of selections of the spatial-structural components in which each selected spatial-structural component is incorporated into the three-dimensional visual representation at the time of user selection, the design module cooperatively enabling the user selection with the display module via the design module providing the workflow of selections of the spatial-structural components of the print product and the display module providing an immediate visual representation of the print product being built;
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- a first site, accessible via a network communication link, comprising a first user interface through the display module is accessible to design the print product model,
- wherein the selected spatial-structural components as designed within the first user interface is printed and assembled, creating an assembled print product.
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A method of providing a print product designer, the method comprising:
- employing a non-volatile memory to store, and a processing resource to execute, machine readable instructions to cause:
- providing a selection tool displayable in a user interface to receive a plurality of selections of spatial-structural components, each of the spatial-structural components comprising a portion of a print product model, a three-dimensional visual representation switchable within a display module among a first representation in which selected spatial-structural components of a print product are depicted in assembled form, a second representation in which the selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in exploded form, and a third representation in which the selected spatial-structural components of the print product are depicted in partially exploded, partially assembled form;
- providing a workflow via the selection tool to guide design of a print product model based on the received selections;
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- providing the user interface to display the three-dimensional visual representation of the print product model wherein the three-dimensional visual representation incorporates each selected spatial-structural component simultaneously with a time of the selection,
- wherein the selected spatial-structural components as designed within the user interface is printed and assembled, creating an assembled print product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.