Patents Assigned to Cimpress Schweiz GmbH
  • Patent number: 11978139
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing text legibility in an electronic document are disclosed. According to certain aspects, the electronic document may include a text layer and a background layer, and an electronic device may generate a text mask comprising a set of glyphs at certain positions. The electronic device may analyze the text mask to generate an output comprising a set of bounding boxes that indicate legibility degrees of the respective glyphs included in the text mask. The electronic device may display the output for review and assessment by a user, who may use the electronic device to facilitate any modifications to the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventor: Vyacheslav Nykyforov
  • Patent number: 11810247
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering items with a user interface of an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may detect its orientation and render, in a user interface, a physical item using a rendering effect determined from the orientation. As a user of the electronic device reorients the electronic device, the electronic device may automatically and dynamically update the rendering with an updated rendering effect to reflect the updated orientation. In embodiments, the user may use the electronic device to complete an order for the physical item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Ramon Harrington, Jon Gaudette, Jarongorn Manny Lertpatthanakul
  • Patent number: 11652930
    Abstract: Systems and methods of co-editing a design for a printed product is disclosed. According to certain aspects, a server may store tool state variable(s) corresponding to editing tool(s) included in a printed product editor in a database; receive, from a first electronic device executing a first instantiation of the printed product editor, a request for a collaborative communication session with a second electronic device executing a second instantiation of the printed product editor; generate the collaborative communication session between the two devices in response to the request, the collaborative communication session including a state of editing tool(s) of the first instantiation of the printed product editor; update the tool state variable(s) corresponding to the state of editing tool(s) of the first instantiation in the database; and synchronize a state of editing tool(s) of the second instantiation in response to the updating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Edward James Hammond, Christina Kayastha, Gal Rakhsha-Shenar
  • Patent number: 11640685
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing graphic design using metadata relationships are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may display a visual design including a set of design elements, each of which may be contained within a corresponding container. The electronic device may receive a selection to spatially adjust a design element, and may determine a modification to the design element based an element behavior of the design element and/or a container behavior of the corresponding container. The electronic device may display, in the user interface, the design element reflecting the modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Paul Shelman, Siyang Zhang, Johanna Bodnyk, Noah Portnoy
  • Patent number: 11615238
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating digital designs according to search queries. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may present a first template associated with a first online service, and a second template associated with a second online service. The electronic device may facilitate a search using inputted keywords, and identify a set of images and/or design elements according to the search. The electronic device may modify the first template and/or the second template by incorporating various of the images and/or design elements. A user may select different functionalities associated with the modified templates, including selecting digital design for an online service, such as a social media site and/or an online video conferencing site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Christina Kayastha, Brian Hanechak
  • Patent number: 11475204
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing formats for a digital design are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may support a design application that may enable a user to create and edit a digital design across multiple formats associated with multiple online services. The design applications enables the effective and efficient editing of the formats such that the digital design maintains a similar look and feel for each format. In embodiments, the design application may interface with the multiple online services to access formatting parameters and upload the respective formats for the digital design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Christina Kayastha, Lorenzo Gomez Garchitorena, Mikael Edwards, Alyssa Joy Parelli, Jayabascar Rajagopal, John E. Gillespie, IV
  • Patent number: 11423606
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering items with a user interface of an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may detect its orientation and render, in a user interface, a physical item using a rendering effect determined from the orientation. As a user of the electronic device reorients the electronic device, the electronic device may automatically and dynamically update the rendering with an updated rendering effect to reflect the updated orientation. In embodiments, the user may use the electronic device to complete an order for the physical item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Ramon Harrington, Jon Gaudette, Jarongorn Manny Lertpatthanakul
  • Patent number: 11392762
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating product designs according to search queries. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may present a set of default templates associated with one or more products. The electronic device may facilitate a search using inputted keywords, and identify a set of images and/or design elements according to the search. The electronic device may modify the set of default templates by incorporating various of the images and/or design elements. A user may select different functionalities associated with the modified templates, including selecting to place a product order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Swider, Edward James Hammond, Christina Kayastha, Christopher Wai-Lung Kwan, Brian Robert Chitester
  • Patent number: 11380031
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating product design by an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may present a design having a set of design elements, and may detect a modification to one or more of the set of design elements. The electronic device may determine, based on a set of characteristics, how remaining design elements can be modified based on the detected modification. The electronic device may determine and present a modified design according to the modified design elements, for review by a user of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Paul Shelman, Siyang Zhang, Johanna Bodnyk, Noah Portnoy
  • Patent number: 11335053
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital rendering items with designs incorporate therein are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may support a design application that may modify a digital image using an identity texture and a texture map, resulting in the modified digital image taking the shape or form of a portion of a digital model of an item. The electronic device may generate a digital rendering of the item using the modified digital image and the digital model of the item, and may enable a user to review the digital rendering and/or place an order for a physical version of the item according to the digital rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventor: Jorel Fermin
  • Patent number: 11244371
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to translate and manage product data are disclosed. A disclosed example system for translating and managing product data pertaining to a plurality of tenants includes a rules executor to verify, based on product attribute rules, that requested product attributes pertaining to a product request from a buyer are valid, an attribute translator to generate platform standard attributes of products corresponding to the tenants, where the attribute translator is to translate tenant-specific product attributes to the platform standard attributes based on the tenant-specific product attributes and the product attribute rules, and an equivalency evaluator to evaluate an equivalency of the products based on the requested product attributes and output the equivalency. The equivalency evaluator is to store the equivalency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Kellen Flannery, David Goldman
  • Patent number: 11222451
    Abstract: A content replacement system and method for simultaneously updating a plurality of images of visual designs on an electronic display of an electronic device using synchronized client- and server-side visual design object models by representing visual objects in visual designs using a keyed attribute and associated attribute value comprising a visual object specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Alex Uzgin, Donald J. Naylor, Jarongorn Manny Lertpatthanakul, Jeremy Pallai, Jonathan Gaudette, Rebecca Safran, Ramon Harrington
  • Patent number: 11145064
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting crop marks depicted in digital images are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may, in conjunction with enabling a user to customize a product design, facilitate a set of digital image processing functionalities to detect a set of crop marks depicted in a digital image associated with the product design. In particular, the systems and methods may detect a first set of lines depicted in a processed digital image indicative of content of interest extracted from the digital image, and detect a second set of lines depicted in a subtracted digital resulting from subtracting a set of contours from the processed digital image. The systems and methods may determine the set of crop marks from the first and second sets of lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventor: Anshul Garg
  • Patent number: 11138647
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing variations of a graphic design within a framework are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may access a desired specification for a design of a product, where the desired specification may indicate at least one desired physical property for the product. The electronic device may automatically identify a variation from a plurality of variations that matches the desired specification, and may display the identified variation for review or editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Paul Shelman, Siyang Zhang, Johanna Bodnyk, Noah Portnoy
  • Patent number: 11127177
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating product design by an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may display one or more designable canvases of a user interface for editing the visual design of a product. The electronic device may display an extended workspace canvas adjacent to and at least partially surrounding the one or more designable canvases. The extended workspace canvas may be configured to display a plurality of design elements that can be reached directly from the one or more designable canvases for use. Each of the design elements may be configured to be selectively positioned within the one or more designable canvases. The electronic device may, in response to a surface change selection of the one or more designable canvases, maintain the displaying of the extended workspace canvas while the one or more designable canvases are in a transitioning state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Swider, Edward James Hammond, Christina Kayastha, Donald J. Naylor, Christopher Wai-Lung Kwan, Brian Robert Chitester
  • Patent number: 11029895
    Abstract: Systems and methods for placing visual content on a virtual surface for customizing a physical product are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may, in conjunction with enabling a user to customize a product design, access and identify certain parameters associated with certain page boxes of the electronic document. The electronic device may calculate a set of differences between certain aspect ratios associated with the page boxes, and accordingly modify certain parameters of the page boxes. The resulting page box modifications may mitigate certain errors associated with production of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Harrison Paine, David Greenberg, Anatoliy Tsykora, Vikramaditya Khemka
  • Patent number: 10977437
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating product designs using linked information. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may present a template associated with one or more products. The electronic device may facilitate a search for a desired entity having an associated entity design element, and modify the template by incorporating the associated entity design element. A user may select different functionalities associated with the modified template, including selecting to place a product order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Swider, Edward James Hammond, Christina Kayastha, Christopher Wai-Lung Kwan, Brian Robert Chitester
  • Patent number: 10950035
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering items with a user interface of an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may detect its orientation and render, in a user interface, a physical item using a rendering effect determined from the orientation. As a user of the electronic device reorients the electronic device, the electronic device may automatically and dynamically update the rendering with an updated rendering effect to reflect the updated orientation. In embodiments, the user may use the electronic device to complete an order for the physical item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Ramon Harrington, Jon Gaudette, Jarongorn Manny Lertpatthanakul
  • Patent number: 10846897
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing graphic design using metadata relationships are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may display a visual design including a set of design elements, each of which may be contained within a corresponding container. The electronic device may receive a selection to spatially adjust a design element, and may determine a modification to the design element based an element behavior of the design element and/or a container behavior of the corresponding container. The electronic device may display, in the user interface, the design element reflecting the modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Paul Shelman, Siyang Zhang, Johanna Bodnyk, Noah Portnoy
  • Patent number: 10726592
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating product design by an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may display one or more designable canvases of a user interface for editing the visual design of a product. The electronic device may display an extended workspace canvas adjacent to and at least partially surrounding the one or more designable canvases. The extended workspace canvas may be configured to display a plurality of design elements that can be reached directly from the one or more designable canvases for use. Each of the design elements may be configured to be selectively positioned within the one or more designable canvases. The electronic device may, in response to a surface change selection of the one or more designable canvases, maintain the displaying of the extended workspace canvas while the one or more designable canvases are in a transitioning state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Swider, Edward James Hammond, Christina Kayastha, Donald J. Naylor