US 12,243,182 B1
Method and system for creating programmable, licensable, and customizable digital artworks and assets with interconnected custom manufactured physical objects
Thomas C. Carrier, Lancaster, PA (US); and Oren Sherman, Truro, MA (US)
Filed by Thomas C. Carrier, Lancaster, PA (US); and Oren Sherman, Truro, MA (US)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/154,171.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/299,472, filed on Jan. 14, 2022.
Int. Cl. G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 19/20 (2013.01) [G06T 19/003 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for creating and interacting with an interconnected physical and digital experience, comprising:
creating a video of a 3D digital model by:
designing the 3D digital model and a surrounding digital environment of the physical object and verifying that the design is producible with current manufacturing technology;
manipulating the 3D digital model within the digital environment and identifying multiple vantage points of interest;
developing a palette of colors and/or material textures that apply to the 3D digital model and the digital environment;
configuring a set of geometric relationships, translations, and transformations applicable to the 3D digital model, palette of color and/or material textures; and
capturing thousands or more of sequential image files by moving between the identified vantage points of interest while applying the configured set of geometric relation, translations, and transformations, and creating the video from the sequential image files;
manufacturing a physical object based on the 3D digital model;
creating a first digital experience point including the video and one or more links to further digital experience points;
creating multiple further digital experience points wherein each further digital experience point includes one of the thousands or more image files and links to zero or more further digital experience points;
deploying a digital experience object at a network accessible location wherein the digital experience object includes the first digital experience point and each further digital experience point reachable by following links originating from the first digital experience object;
providing at least one access code to the digital experience object with the manufactured physical object, wherein each access code is a QR code or an URL;
associating owner configurable license rights with each digital experience point, wherein access rights of a specific digital experience point are configurable between public access, limited access to one or more specific users, or limited to a specific number of users;
uploading additional digital content to one of the further digital experience points;
creating a new further experience point linked to one of the further digital experience points, and uploading additional digital content to the new further experience point; and
manufacturing a consumer product with a physical design applying the image file of one of the further digital experience points.