Patent ID: 9105116
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A print document production visualization system, comprising: a controller, operatively associated with at least one computer; a print product definition; said print product definition including a binder requirement specification for at least one binding object; a plurality of architecture layers managed and organized by the controller wherein the plurality of architecture layers include a print job ticket adaptation layer, a physical model layer, a display model layer, and a rendering layer; the print job ticket adaptation layer reading said print product definition and transforming the print product definition into a physical model that describes the static nature of the print job to be rendered, said physical model being represented, at least in part, by physical model blocks representing, in a scene, a set of adjoining sheets of the same media with the same orientation; the physical model layer transforming the physical model into a display model that uses abstractions to represent various artifacts produced by the job and a data-binding parser to load the physical model into a memory, and where each physical model block is mapped to a plurality of display model blocks; and the display model layer transforming the display model into the scene displayed as a three dimensional virtual rendering of the print product definition by the rendering layer on a graphical user interface, wherein the scene includes representations of a plurality of physical model blocks; and a plurality of 3D binding elements and associated meta-data managed by the controller, the controller transforming the binding elements and associated meta-data, as specified by the binder requirement specification, into a 3D binder display model for inclusion in the transformation of the print product definition into a print product display model displayed as a virtual 3D rendering of the print product and binder by rendering on a graphical user interface, wherein the binder requirement cannot be satisfied from the plurality of binding elements and where a default binding object is substituted for the binder requirement in the print product display model.