Photo booth for three-dimensional images

• US 9,421,716 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MakerBot Industries, LLC (Ultimaker BV)
• Original Assignee: MakerBot Industries, LLC (Ultimaker BV)
• Inventors: Pettis, Nathaniel B., Lawton, Jennifer J., Briscella, John Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Del Sole, Joseph S
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBITAILLE, JOHN P
• Application Number:
  US13/962,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20140042670A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 64/00 Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 64/106 using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 64/118 using filamentary material being melted, e.g. fused deposition modelling [FDM]
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 64/386 Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 64/393 for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 30/00 Apparatus for additive manufacturing; Details thereof or accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 50/00 Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2111/04 Constraint-based CAD
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2111/20 Configuration CAD, e.g. designing by assembling or positioning modules selected from libraries of predesigned modules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2119/18 Manufacturability analysis or optimisation for manufacturability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00827 Arrangements for reading an image from an unusual original, e.g. 3-dimensional objects
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/82 Elements for improving aerodynamics

Abstract

A photo booth is configured with a three-dimensional scanner, a display with a user interface coupled to the photo booth, a network interface configured to couple the photo booth in a communicating relationship with a remote processing resource, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to associate a user identifier and a user with a subject, capture a scan of the subject in the photo booth with the three-dimensional scanner, process the scan to obtain a three-dimensional model of the subject, receive a user customization of the three-dimensional model in the user interface, the user customization resulting in a modification of the three-dimensional model, create a fabrication-ready digital model of the three-dimensional model including the modification, and store the fabrication-ready digital model.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a photo booth including a three-dimensional scanner;

associating a user identifier and a user with a subject;

capturing a scan of the subject in the photo booth with the three-dimensional scanner;

processing the scan to obtain a three-dimensional model of the subject, the three-dimensional model including a scanned bust of the subject;

receiving a user customization of the three-dimensional model, the user customization including a user selection of a body from a plurality of bodies and combination of the scanned bust with the body to obtain a three-dimensional model of the scanned bust on the body;

presenting a preview of the three-dimensional model to the user;

creating a fabrication-ready digital model of the three-dimensional model including the user customization; and

storing the fabrication-ready digital model.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising fabricating the fabrication-ready digital model with a three-dimensional printer.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein storing the fabrication-ready digital model includes storing the fabrication-ready digital model on a server.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising transmitting a link to the fabrication-ready digital model on the server to the user.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the link identifies a landing page that includes the three-dimensional model, the fabrication-ready digital model, and a two-dimensional rendering of the fabrication-ready digital model.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising storing the scan, the user identifier, and the preview of the fabrication-ready digital model on the server.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing the three-dimensional model, the fabrication-ready digital model, the user identifier, and the preview of the fabrication-ready digital model on a removable media coupled in a communicating relationship with the photo booth.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying the fabrication-ready digital model to the user for approval before storing the fabrication-ready digital model.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a rotating base in the photo booth and rotating the subject while capturing the scan.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the photo booth includes a display providing a user interface for operation of the photo booth.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the three-dimensional scanner is one or more of a structured light scanner, a shape-from-motion-scanner, a range finding scanner, and a laser light scanner.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein creating the fabrication-ready digital model includes transmitting one or more of the scan and the three-dimensional model to a remote processing resource and receiving the fabrication-ready digital model from the remote processing resource.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the user customization specifies a physical modification of the scanned bust.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the physical modification includes one or more of horns, antennae, hair, and an additional eye.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the user customization specifies an accessory for the scanned bust.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the accessory includes one or more of glasses, a hat, a crown, an item of jewelry, and an item of clothing.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the user customization specifies one or more of a base for the fabrication-ready digital model, text for a nameplate on the fabrication-ready digital model, and an enclosure for the fabrication-ready digital model.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the user customization specifies one or more features for removal from the three-dimensional model.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the user customization specifies a physiological change in the subject relating to one or more of age and weight, and wherein the method further includes automatically modifying the three-dimensional model according to the physiological change.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of bodies includes one of an animal, a mystical figure, a science fiction character, a superhero, and a military figure.