Color selection, coordination and purchase system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9639983-B2
Application number	US-61003109-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2009
Priority date	Jul 22, 2009
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A website arranged to provide a plurality of home pages, each presenting a featured painting project image, each project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of the image with at least one attention-drawing animated “hot spot” located in one or more of the regions and responsive to a first selection operation to cause display of the color name of the color of the region where the hot spot lies. The home pages further may include real-life simulating animation features, while the system software is operable to select the relative frequency with which each home page appears. Other web pages provide an animated color sheen selection tool.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A paint color selection apparatus comprising:
a website comprising one or more servers or computers for supplying data for generating a plurality of web pages, the web pages comprising:
a first page for display on a computer controlled display apparatus, the first page comprising a first project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of said image;
at least one hot spot located in one of said regions, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; and
wherein a first selection operation performable on said hot spot causes display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the region where said hot spot lies; and
wherein said web pages further comprise a color sheen selection tool, providing a display comprising a plurality of color sheen chips, each chip representing a different selected sheen and wherein touching a selected sheen chip causes an enlarged image of the chip to appear and wherein a further operation causes the chip to move slightly to the left and slightly to the right to enhance the display of the sheen's characteristics.

2. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 1 wherein a second selection operation performed on said hot spot causes display of a color summary menu comprising a listing of a plurality of colors present in said project image.

3. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 2 wherein said first selection operation further causes display of a link to said color summary menu.

4. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 1 wherein a portion of said project image is animated to simulate real-life operation of a portion of said image.

5. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 4 wherein said project image comprises a home and front lawn and wherein the project image is animated to simulate water spraying from one or more sprinklers disposed on the lawn.

6. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 4 wherein said project image comprises an interior room having a fireplace and wherein the project image is animated to cause the fireplace to appear to be burning.

7. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 1 wherein said first page comprises a home page and wherein said web pages further comprise a second home page comprising a second featured project image, said second featured project image employing a plurality of different colors each in a respective area of said image and wherein said website further comprises software operable to cause appearance of said first and second home pages according to a selected ratio of appearance.

8. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 7 wherein said second project image further comprises:
a plurality of second hot spots, one located in each of said areas, each second hot spot employing an attention-drawing animation feature;
and wherein a third selection operation on one of said second hot spots causes display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the area wherein the second hot spot lies.

9. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 7 wherein a fourth selection operation on said second hot spot causes display of a color summary menu comprising a listing of a plurality of colors present in said second project image.

10. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 7 wherein said third selection operation further causes display of a link to a color summary menu.

11. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 7 wherein a portion of said second project image is animated to simulate life-like operation of a portion of said image.

12. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 7 wherein said first project image comprises a home and front lawn and wherein the animation comprises simulating water spraying from one or more sprinklers disposed on said lawn and wherein said second project image comprises an interior room having a fireplace and wherein the animation comprises causing the fireplace to appear to be burning.

13. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 1 wherein animation of said hot spot comprises enlargement thereof in response to touching.

14. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 1 wherein animation of said hot spot comprises pulsing or blinking.

15. The paint color selection apparatus of claim 1 wherein said hot spot comprises a pulsing or blinking, rounded chip shape.

Assignees

• Buzyn John
• Irizarry Bernadette
• Milsom Doug
• Reynolds Damien
• Une Donna
• Webb Marc
• Behr Process Corp

Inventors

• Buzyn John
• Irizarry Bernadette
• Milsom Doug
• Reynolds Damien
• Une Donna
• Webb Marc

Classifications

• G06T11/10 Primary

  Texturing; Colouring; Generation of textures or colours (retouching, inpainting or scratch removal G06T5/77) · CPC title

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06Q30/0621

  by configuring or customising goods or services · CPC title

• G06T19/00 Primary

  Manipulating three-dimensional [3D] models or images for computer graphics · CPC title

• G06T13/80

  Two-dimensional [2D] animation, e.g. using sprites · CPC title