惠普实验室新版AutoGreetingCard.com首度亮相

     Call it a festive test bed, perhaps, or research project that’s also a gift to the rest of us.  But this holiday season, HP Labs is once again offering autogreetingcard.com, a website that lets anyone create and print unique, customized holiday greetings cards.
    可以说这是一个节日庆祝的实验，也可以说这是一个研究项目，对我们中的某些人来说，它都是一份礼物。在这个假期中，惠普实验室再次推出的Autogreetingcard.com网站，可以让任何人创建和打印独特的、定制化的节日贺卡。         

    The service will take any pictures you upload to it, automatically select and edit the best of them and then arrange them into a holiday card of your choice.  You can then print, download or electronically share the finished card with friends.
    这项服务将帮助你，从上传到网站上的图片中，自动筛选和编辑出其中最好的内容，并将这些图片安排到你所选择的节日贺卡模板中。然后你就可以打印、下载或通过电子邮件方式与朋友分享制作好的贺卡了。

    Working in the background is innovative HP technology that pretty much guarantees that every card design you’re presented with will look great.  But what makes autogreetingcard.com truly unique is how it instantly changes your card’s design as you add or remove pictures, or as you change the message you’d like printed on your card. 
    以上功能的实现离不开创新的惠普科技，它可以充分保证每张你所设计的贺卡都非常漂亮。而Autogreetingcard.com网站真正的独特之处是，它可以即时改变贺卡的设计，当你添加或移走图片，或是变换贺卡上的祝福语，效果将会马上显现出来。

    This year the site has added several new design styles, each available in nine new fixed variations, each of which can in turn be almost infinitely tweaked.
    如今，Autogreetingcard.com又增加了一些新的设计风格，每一种设计风格都存在于九种新的固定变化中，每种新的固定变化能依次组合，可以几乎无限可能的调整。

    Also new this year is a technique the Labs team has dubbed ‘multipass layout.’ This adds to many designs a layer of graphic elements, such as gift tags or cookies, that will shift in size and location as you switch between different layout choices.

    一项被实验室团队称为“多通道设计”的新技术也在今年面世，它为许多设计增加了一个图像元素层，比如礼物标签或cookie，当你在不同设计选择之间切换时，将可以改变尺寸和位置。
 

    “The technology in here is very subtle,” notes researcher Xuemei Zang.  “It’s actually quite difficult to do. I don’t think you’ll see anything like this anywhere else.”
    “这里用到的技术非常微妙，”研究员张雪梅指出，“实际上它实现起来非常困难，我想你在其它地方绝对看不到类似的应用。”

    Thanks to a partnership with HP Services in Shanghai, China, the software running autogreetingcard.com has been completely rewritten for the new holiday season.  It’s also now deployed as a fully cloud-based service, making the site both scalable and more robust. 
    感谢与中国上海的惠普服务部门的合作，Autogreetingcard.com运行软件对新假期的程序编写已全部完成。现在它正被部署为一个完全基于云计算的服务，将使网站变得更可扩展，并更为强大。

    While it’s a lot of fun to help people make great holiday cards, the site’s ultimate purpose is to help HP’s Printing & Content Delivery Lab fulfill its mission of creating content experiences that are both compelling and highly relevant, notes research manager Qian Lin. 
    研究经理林倩指出，虽然Autogreetingcard.com网站带给人们很多制作节日贺卡的乐趣，但它的最终目的是实现惠普打印与内容发布实验室的愿景，即创建引人注目和高度相关的内容体验。
 

    “We’re looking to create experiences through context and preference modeling and through innovations in content semantics,” Lin explains, “all of which we’re employing here.” 
    “我们正寻求通过环境和优选模型、内容语义创新来创建新的体验，这些都将在我们的实验室中使用。”林倩解释说。

    Try autogreetingcard.com for yourself.  You’ll need to create a username and password for the site, just so that you can upload your pictures to it and save or share your card designs once you are done.
    Click here for a more detailed look at the technical innovations behind autogreetingcard.com   
     亲自试用Autogreetingcard.com，你需要在该网站上创建一个用户名和密码，这样你就能上传自己的图片了。一旦完成贺卡设计，你可以保存或与他人分享。

    点击这里，以获得更详细的autogreetingcard.com背后的科技创新。