Controller Device
AssigneeProvo Craft and Novelty, Inc.
InventorsPaul J. Hepworth, Andrew J. Olsen, Mark L. Gray, Matthew B. Strong
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Abstract
A method of using a controller device for an electronic cutting machine. The method includes associating at least one of cutting operations and printing operations with glyphs, retrieving the glyphs from at least one of memory of a cartridge in communication with the controller device and memory of the controller device, arranging the glyphs in a screen overlay, and rendering the screen overlay on a screen of the controller device.
Claims30
A method of using a controller device for an electronic cutting machine, the method comprising:
- associating at least one of cutting operations and printing operations with glyphs;
- retrieving the glyphs from at least one of memory of a cartridge in communication with the controller device and memory of the controller device;
- arranging the glyphs in a screen overlay;
- and
- rendering the screen overlay on a screen of the controller device.
A controller device for an electronic cutting machine, the controller device comprising:
- a screen;
- a processor in communication with the screen and executing a program for interfacing with the controller device;
- and
- device memory in communication with the processor;
- the program
- associating at least one of cutting operations and printing operations with glyphs;
- retrieving the glyphs from at least one of memory of a cartridge in communication with the controller device and the device memory;
- arranging the glyphs in a screen overlay;
- and
- rendering the screen overlay on the screen.
A method of using a controller device for an electronic cutting machine, the method comprising:
- receiving a selection of a glyph displayed in an overly view displayed on a screen of the controller device, the overly view comprising an arrangement of glyphs;
- displaying the selected glyph in a selected glyph region of the overlay view;
- and
- displaying the selected glyph on a virtual mat displayable on the screen of the controller device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.