Patent ID: 8033215
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: B31F,B33Y

Abstract:
1. A method for creating an enhanced image manifest on a sheet material, said enhanced image having one or more images, physical enhancements and graphical enhancements as would be complimentary to said physical enhancements, said method comprising: providing a plurality of enhancement components and assembly components, said assembly components having geometries and dimensions such that a sheet of said sheet material is accommodated and held at a predetermined location, and said enhancement components having dimensions and geometries such that when assembled and co-joined with said assembly components and under application of a predetermined force said physical enhancements are imparted to said sheet material accommodated and held at said predetermined location; providing a plurality of virtual objects comprising virtual enhancement components, virtual sheet materials and virtual images as would be used in a computer based design environment having one or more functions such as to allow a user therein to develop an arrangement of said virtual objects through a graphical user interface such as to provide a virtual design representing said enhanced image, wherein said virtual enhancement components represent, in combination, the forms and dimensions of said enhancement components, the forms and dimensions of said physical enhancements thereby imparted to said sheet material, and the forms and dimensions of said graphical enhancements complimentary to said physical enhancements as would be imparted to said sheet material using a printer operationally connected to a computer hosting said computer based design environment, and said virtual sheet materials representing forms and dimensions of said sheet materials, and said virtual images representing said images; providing said computer and said computer based design environment, and said user therein arranging said virtual objects into a virtual design using said graphical user interface, said virtual design being a scaled representation of said enhanced image comprising one or more of said virtual enhancement components and one or more of said virtual images positioned within a virtual design space defined by said virtual sheet material, and said virtual design providing a virtual graphic and a virtual assembly template, said virtual graphic being a preview of said virtual images and said graphical enhancements represented by said assembly of virtual objects as would be printed to a sheet of said sheet material, said virtual assembly template being the assembly of said virtual enhancement components as would be transformed and printed to one or more sheets of said sheet material specifically indicating forms, dimensions and positions of said enhancement components on said assembly components relative to said predetermined location such as would be used to impart said physical enhancements to said sheet material in accordance with said virtual design; printing said virtual graphic to a sheet of said sheet material such that said images and graphical enhancements are manifest, thereby creating a printed image; printing said virtual assembly template to one or more sheets of said sheet material thereby creating an assembly template; arranging said assembly template with said assembly components in accordance with said predetermined location and assembling and co-joining said enhancement components and said assembly components in accordance with said assembly template; locating said printed image at said predetermined location in a sandwich arrangement with said assembly components and said co-joined enhancement components such that said graphical enhancements in said printed image and said enhancement components assembled and co-joined with said assembly components have common orientation; applying said predetermined force to said sandwich arrangement and thereby imparting said physical enhancements to said printed image such that said enhanced design is manifest on said sheet material.