Identification of interior design features

• US 20060031044A1
• Filed: 08/04/2004
• Published: 02/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Secure3Dp+ Pte. Ltd. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Secure3Dp+ Pte. Ltd. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Tegreene, Clarence T., Ferren, Bran, Jung, Edward K. Y.
• Application Number:
  US10/911,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20060031044A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2117/08 HW-SW co-design, e.g. HW-SW partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/15 Vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design

Abstract

One embodiment of the subject matter of the present application, a method for identifying features of a model of an interior configuration of one or more three-dimensional objects within a three-dimensional interior space, includes including at least one respective identifier in an interior space item, the interior space item including an interior space cavity, the interior space cavity forming at least a part of a model of the three-dimensional interior space, and in one or more object items, the one or more object items forming at least a part of models of the one or more three-dimensional objects. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for identifying features of a model of an interior configuration of at least one three-dimensional object within a three-dimensional interior space, the method comprising:

including at least one respective identifier

in an interior space item, the interior space item including an interior space cavity, the interior space cavity forming at least a part of a model of the three-dimensional interior space, and

in at least one object item, the at least one object item forming at least a part of a model of the at least one three-dimensional object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the interior space item is made using rapid prototyping.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one object item is made using rapid prototyping.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

including position identification data in the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item identifying the position of the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

including orientation identification data in the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item identifying the orientation of the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

including combined position and orientation identification data in the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item identifying the position and orientation of the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the including the at least one respective identifier included in the interior space item further comprises:

storing interior space identification data in a radio-frequency identification device embedded in the interior space item.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the interior space identification data stored in the radio-frequency identification device is changeable after the radio-frequency identification device is embedded in the interior space item.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the at least one respective identifier included in the interior space item in a database.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the including the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item further comprises:

storing object identification data in a radio-frequency identification device embedded in the at least one object item.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the object identification data stored in the radio-frequency identification device is changeable after the radio-frequency identification device is embedded in the at least one object item.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item in a database.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

including configuration identification data in the at least one respective identifier identifying a configuration of the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration identification data includes identifying data for the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the identifying data for the at least one object item within the interior space cavity includes the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration identification data includes position identifying data for the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration identification data includes orientation identifying data for the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration identification data includes combined position and orientation identifying data for the at least one object item within the interior space cavity.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the including configuration identification data further comprises:

storing the configuration identification data in a radio-frequency identification device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the radio-frequency identification device is embedded in the interior space item.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the configuration identification data stored in the radio-frequency identification device is changeable after the radio-frequency identification device is embedded in the interior space item.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the radio-frequency identification device is embedded in the at least one object item.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein configuration identification data stored in the radio-frequency identification device is changeable after the radio-frequency identification device is embedded in the at least one object item.

24. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

storing the configuration identification data in a database.

25. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the at least one respective identifier included in the interior space item in an account corresponding to a user of the method.

26. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the at least one respective identifier included in the at least one object item in an account corresponding to a user of the method.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one respective identifier comprises:

at least one three-dimensional identifier configuration corresponding to the at least one of the respective identifiers, the at least one three-dimensional identifier configuration being embedded and including either

(1) a substantially empty identifier cavity, or

(2) at least one identifying material filling at least part of an identifier cavity, wherein material surrounding the identifier cavity is substantially opaque to visible light.

28. A system for producing a model of an interior configuration of at least one three-dimensional object within a three-dimensional interior space, the system comprising:

at least one fabrication apparatus;

a processor operably couplable to the at least one fabrication apparatus;

a memory operably couplable to the processor and operably couplable to the at least one fabrication apparatus; and

software stored in the memory and adapted

to associate at least one respective identifier with an interior space item, the interior space item including an interior space cavity, the interior space cavity forming at least a part of a scale model of the three-dimensional interior space, and with at least one object item, the at least one object item forming at least a part of a scale model of the at least one three-dimensional object,

to command the at least one fabrication apparatus to fabricate the interior space item to include the at least one respective identifier associated with the interior space item in the interior space item, and

to command the at least one fabrication apparatus to fabricate the at least one object item to include the at least one respective identifier associated with the at least one object item in the at least one object item.

29. The system of claim 28, further comprising software stored in the memory and adapted to store in a database a representation of the at least one respective identifier associated with the interior space item and to store in the database a representation of the at least one respective identifier associated with the at least one object item.

30. The system of claim 28, wherein the at least one fabrication apparatus is a rapid prototyping apparatus.

31. A model of an interior configuration of at least one three-dimensional object within a three-dimensional interior space, the model comprising:

an interior space item including an interior space cavity, the interior space cavity forming at least a part of a scale model of the three-dimensional interior space;

at least one object item, the at least one object item forming at least a part of a scale model of the at least one three-dimensional object; and

wherein at least one of the interior space item or the at least one object item includes at least one respective identifier.

32. The model of claim 31, wherein the model is manufactured using rapid prototyping.

33. The model of claim 31, wherein the model is a scale model.