Thaddeus H Kielch

US Patent:

20040145610, Jul 29, 2004

Filed:

Apr 17, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/418507

Inventors:

Charles Brown - Lake Zurich IL, US
Thaddeus Kielch - Roselle IL, US
Ronnie Weeks - Hoffman Estates IL, US

Assignee:

VORTX GROUP - Hoffman Estates IL

International Classification:

G09G005/00

US Classification:

345/764000

Abstract:

Disclosed herein is a method for creating a dynamically-customizable precursor wall border image for display on a graphic user interface (GUI) and capable of use in creating a wall border. The method includes: providing, to a user, access to a plurality of wall border templates from which a user can select one of the plurality of wall border templates for display at the GUI; receiving user input text information, the user input text information viewable at the GUI; receiving user-selected graphic information, the user-selected graphic information viewable at the GUI; and generating, in real time, a precursor wall border image at the GUI, the precursor wall border image having the selected wall border template, the user input text information and the user-selected graphic information. The precursor wall border image is dynamically refreshable to permit changes, if any, to at least one of the selected wall border template, the user input text information and the user-selected graphic information, with masking and graphic effects, to be incorporated into the precursor wall border image and viewable at the GUI in real time by the user. The personalized wall border imaging solution captures and compiles the user's selections and generates on the Internet a visual image of the completed design, as well as a print version for printing the wall border design. The design can then be used to print to a pre-pasted wall border substrate using printing equipment, such as a roll-fed digital press or any roll-fed color imaging device capable of accommodating variable print data. Finishes for the product (glosses, coatings), cutting and rolling are performed in a post-printing process prior to shipping the final product to the customer. The solution provides a customized consumer ready product that allows Internet-based creation and ordering of professionally printed wall border designs.