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US 2013/0173415 A1Published application
Product customization system and method
AssigneeZazzle Inc.
InventorsLeslie Young Harvill, Robert I. Beaver, III, Eric Dean Matson, E. Paul Salcedo, Eddie Nelson Caggiani
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Abstract
A product customization system and method are provided in which a consumer can insert user content, such as images or text, onto a product, such as a shoe, and then view the customized product before purchasing the customized product.
Claims9
A computer implemented system for designing and producing a customized product, comprising:
- a computer having a memory;
- a product renderer portion, executed by the computer, that generates a visual three dimensional representation of a finished product using one or more two dimensional design areas of the product with the user content rendered in three dimensions and the visual three dimensional representation of a finished product with the user content is displayed using the user interface portion, wherein the product renderer portion also generates a product description based on the one or more design areas of the product with the user content;
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- a manufacturing product rendering portion, executed by the computer, that, based on the product description, generates one or more manufacturing files including a layout of the one or more design areas with user content of the product, a cutting of the one or more design areas with user content of the product and a set of assembly instructions for the one or more design areas with user content of the product.
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A method for designing and producing a customized product, the method comprising:
- generating, using a product renderer portion of the computer-based customized product unit, a visual three dimensional representation of a finished product using the one or more two dimensional design areas of the product with the user content rendered in three dimensions and the visual three dimensional representation of a finished product with the user content is displayed using the user interface portion;
- generating, using the product renderer portion of the computer-based customized product unit, a product description based on the one or more design areas of the product with the user content;
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- generating, using a manufacturing product rendering portion of the computer-based customized product unit, one or more manufacturing files including a layout of the one or more design areas with user content of the product, a cutting of the one or more design areas with user content of the product and a set of assembly instructions for the one or more design areas with user content of the product based on the product description.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.