Patent ID: 8063912
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G06T,G09G

Abstract:
1. An automated method for providing color coordination capability to a user comprising: employing one or more programmed computers to perform a plurality of operations in conjunction with a stored, computer queryable database, the operations comprising: receiving a starting color for which coordinating colors are sought; associating the starting color with a first color, the first color being one of a plurality of colors stored in digital format in the database, the first color being the closest matching color in the database to the starting color; transforming the digital format of said first color into a visual display of said first color on a computer controlled display apparatus; retrieving one or more color palettes associated with the first color, each palette including said first color and one or more coordinating colors which coordinate with said first color; causing display of at least one of the retrieved color palettes on the computer controlled display apparatus; providing an interactive fine-tuning feature on said display apparatus, said feature enabling fine-tuning a characteristic of the first color by the user after said first color has been displayed to the user by accessing a first color data structure associated with the first color and retrieving a fine tuned color, said fine tuned color being one of a plurality of data elements specified in the color data structure; and wherein said first color data structure comprises one of a plurality of accessible color data structures, each of said plurality of accessible color data structures being associated with one of the plurality of colors stored in the data base, each accessible color data structure further comprising the same pre-defined set of data elements ordered in the same way; and wherein one of the data elements of each accessible color data structure specifies a fine tuned color.