Patent ID: 6014221
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: G01J

Abstract:
A process for choosing a color, that most closely replicates an object's actual color, from a database storing digital information in terms of sets of digital color data, a plurality of individual colors producible from a given supply of thermal transfer foils of different colors, said process comprising the steps of:identifying a plurality of thermal transfer foils of different colors;providing a database storing digital information in terms of digital color data corresponding to a plurality of colors producible from said identified foils;providing a computer processor having access to said database;sensing said object's color and producing a set of digital color data representing said sensed color and supplying said set of color data to said computer processor;operating said computer processor to compare said set of digital color data representing said sensed color to said sets of digital color data defined by the digital information stored in said database;generating a listing of sets of color data defined by the digital information stored in said database that most closely match said object's sensed color;outputting said listing to a display means; andselecting from said listing a color data formula defined by the digital information stored in said database as a best match to said sensed color.