Patent ID: 7881818
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of processing using a processing system, the method comprising: accepting a description of the surface of a flexible sheet of packaging material; and generating a description of a finalized surface of the packaging material sheet that results from a physical wrapping and physical finalizing process during which the packaging material sheet is wrapped around a 3D object and finalized, the 3D object having a surface, the description of the finalized surface including a mapping between 2D coordinates of points on the packaging material sheet and 3D coordinates of corresponding points on the surface of a wrapped and finalized version of the packaging material after the packaging material sheet is wrapped around the 3D object and finalized, wherein the method is further defined by at least one of A, B, C, D, and E, A being that the method further comprises: B being that the generating of the description of the finalized surface comprises: C being that the mapping is obtained by a process that comprises: D being that the packaging material sheet is shrink packaging printed with original graphics that is positioned to form a foldout sleeve, the foldout sleeve is made into an unshrunk sleeve that is wrapped around the 3D object, that the finalizing includes shrinking the unshrunk sleeve that is wrapped around the 3D object to form the finalized version of the packaging material sheet in the form of a shrunk sleeve, and that the method further comprises: E being that the method further comprises: