Personal design system and personal equipment production system for actually producing equipment having designed appearance

• US 5,966,310 A
• Filed: 02/11/1997
• Issued: 10/12/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi, Nishimura, Seiichi, Yasutomi, Fumio, Furutate, Hirotsugu, Kishi, Munenori, Maeda, Tsuyoshi, Okuda, Yasuo, Nakayama, Takafumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Teska, Kevin J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN
• Application Number:
  US08/798,947
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 364/512, 364/468.03, 364/468.25, 364/474.24, 395/118, 395/119, 395/333, 395/334, 395/919, 395/964, 395/120, 345/326, 345/333, 345/334, 345/420, 706/919
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/00 Three dimensional [3D] modelling, e.g. data description of 3D objects
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 706/919 Designing, planning, programming, CAD, CASE
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A personal design system according to the present invention designs the appearance of an equipment suiting the sensibility and the physical features of a user by establishing data communication between a user terminal comprising a user information inputting section and a server on the side of a producer. The user inputs user information such as the sensibility and the physical features of the user corresponding to the designed appearance of the equipment using the user information inputting section. The equipment having the designed appearance intended by the user is produced on the basis of the inputted user information and a database provided in the server by designing means provided in the user terminal.

Claims

1. A personal design system comprising:

a server storing a sensibility database of a standard person statistically processed;

a user terminal network-connected to the server;

a user information inputting section provided in the user terminal for inputting user information such as sensibility from a user;

a displaying section provided in the user terminal for displaying an image;

designing means for designing the appearance of an equipment suiting the taste of the user on the basis of said user information sent from said user information inputting section; and

graphics processing means for producing image display data representing the designed appearance of said equipment and outputting the image display data to said displaying section.

2. The personal design system according to claim 1, wherein

said user information includes sensibility data of the user and personal information data such as the physical features of the user.

3. The personal design system according to claim 1, wherein

said designing means comprises a sensibility classification and quantification processing section connected to said user information inputting section for classifying and quantifying said user information, and a personal information database storing said user information of the user obtained by the classification and quantification in the sensibility classification and quantification processing section.

4. The personal design system according to claim 3, wherein

said server comprises a product shape production database storing the design of a basic model and a knowledge base storing production knowledge for producing the basic model, and

said designing means comprises an analysis and inference engine for producing design production data corresponding to the sensibility of the user on the basis of said sensibility database, said product shape production database, said knowledge base, and said personal information database.

5. The personal design system according to claim 4, wherein

said designing means further comprises a CAD interface for converting said design production data to produce CAD data, and a CAD tool for producing sensibility CAD data based on said user information from said CAD data,

said CAD interface and said CAD tool being provided in said server, said produced sensibility CAD data being transmitted to the user terminal from said server.

6. The personal design system according to claim 4, wherein

said designing means comprises a CAD interface for converting said design production data to produce CAD data, and a CAD tool for producing sensibility CAD data based on said user information from said CAD data,

said CAD interface and said CAD tool being provided in the user terminal.

7. A personal equipment production system comprising:

a server storing a sensibility database of a standard person statistically processed;

a user terminal network-connected to the server;

a user information inputting section provided in the user terminal for inputting user information such as sensibility from a user;

a displaying section provided in the user terminal for displaying an image;

designing means for designing the appearance of an equipment suiting the taste of said user on the basis of said user information sent from said user information inputting section;

graphics processing means for producing image display data representing the designed appearance of said equipment and outputting the image display data to said displaying section;

a design and production database provided in said sever and composed of design and production data required to design the appearance of the equipment and produce the equipment having the designed appearance; and

producing means provided in said server for accepting the designed appearance of the equipment from said designing means and accepting said design and production data from said design and production database to produce the equipment having the designed appearance.

8. The personal equipment production system according to claim 7, wherein

said user information includes sensibility data of the user and personal information data such as the physical features of the user.

9. The personal equipment production system according to claim 7, wherein

said producing means comprises a judging section for judging whether or not the equipment having the designed appearance sent from said designing means can be actually produced.

10. A personal equipment production system comprising:

a server storing a sensibility database of a standard person statistically processed;

a user terminal network-connected to the server;

a user information inputting section provided in the user terminal for inputting user information such as sensibility from a user;

a displaying section provided in the user terminal for displaying an image;

designing means for designing the appearance of an equipment suiting the taste of said user on the basis of said user information sent from said user information inputting section;

graphics processing means for producing image display data representing the designed appearance of said equipment and outputting the image display data to said displaying section;

a design and production database provided in said server and composed of design and production data required to design the appearance of the equipment and produce the equipment having the designed appearance; and

producing means provided in said server for accepting the designed appearance of the equipment from said designing means and accepting said design and production data from said design and production database to produce the equipment having the designed appearance;

wherein said producing means comprises a part producing section for producing parts of said equipment on the basis of the designed appearance of the equipment, a coloring and patterning section for coloring and patterning the parts produced in said part producing section on the basis of the designed appearance of the equipment, and a part assembling section for assembling the parts colored and patterned in said coloring and patterning section into the equipment on the basis of said design and production data.

11. The personal equipment production system according to claim 10, wherein

said user information includes sensibility data of the user and personal information data such as the physical features of the user.

12. A personal design system so adapted as to design the appearance of an equipment in a three-dimensional manner on the basis of a word representing intention, comprising

means for displaying a two-dimensional view relating to said equipment projected on a predetermined surface on an image displaying section and displaying a corrected two-dimensional view obtained by the correction based on the word representing intention on said image displaying section when the word is inputted.

13. The personal design system according to claim 12, further comprising

a database previously storing data representing the two-dimensional view relating to said equipment projected on said predetermined surface.

14. The personal design system according to claim 12, wherein

the data representing the two-dimensional view relating to said equipment projected on said predetermined surface is produced on the basis of three-dimensional data of the equipment.

15. The personal design system according to claim 12, further comprising

a database previously storing data representing said corrected two-dimensional view.

16. The personal design system according to claim 12, further comprising

correcting means for correcting the data representing said two-dimensional view on the basis of said word to produce the data representing said corrected two-dimensional view.

17. The personal design system according to claim 12, further comprising

judging means for judging whether or not the appearance of the equipment can be suitably designed in a three-dimensional manner from the data representing the corrected two-dimensional view with respect to each surface.

18. A personal design system comprising:

a database holding a design parameter corresponding to a word representing intention;

an equipment appearance designing section for designing the appearance of an equipment on the basis of said word representing intention;

means for producing three-dimensional equipment display data of the equipment having the appearance designed in said appearance designing section on the basis of design data of the equipment;

means for producing three-dimensional background display data corresponding to a use environment of the equipment; and

means for synthesizing said three-dimensional equipment display data and said three-dimensional background display data and making a person image-recognize data obtained by the synthesis.

19. The personal design system according to claim 18, wherein

said means for making the person image-recognize the data obtained by the synthesis is a virtual reality device.

20. The personal design system according to claim 18, further comprising

means for changing said three-dimensional background display data in response to a person'"'"'s request.

21. The personal design system according to claim 18, further comprising

means for accepting input of the word representing intention in a state where the person is made to image-recognize the data obtained by the synthesis, changing the designed appearance of the equipment on the basis of the inputted word representing intention, and changing the three-dimensional equipment display data with the change of the designed appearance.