Patent ID: 8736634

Claim:
A color scheme changing apparatus comprising: an input unit which accepts designation of an evaluation target screen from a user; a color scheme information acquiring unit which acquires identification information on objects displayed on the evaluation target screen and color scheme information including all colors used for the objects; an attractiveness calculation unit which uses the color scheme information to perform attractiveness calculation processing for calculating degrees of attractiveness indicative of degrees of the used colors to get visual attention, respectively; an importance storage unit which stores importance information indicative of levels of importance of the respective object relative to one another; a color scheme appropriateness determining unit which calculates order of the importance information associated with the objects based on the levels of the importance information, calculates order of the degrees of attractiveness associated with the objects based on levels of the degrees of attractiveness, determines whether the order of the importance information associated with the objects matches the order of the degrees of attractiveness associated with the objects, and outputs determination results; an improvement plan creating unit which outputs, to the attractiveness calculation unit, the color scheme information in which at least one of the used colors used for the objects is changed when the order of the importance information associated with the objects does not match the order of the degrees of attractiveness associated with the objects in the determination results, or outputs improved color scheme information including the previously determined objects when the order of the importance information associated with the objects matches the order of the degrees of attractiveness associated with the objects in the determination results; a screen drawing unit which refers to the improved color scheme information to draw an evaluation target screen improved according to the improved color scheme information; and an output unit which displays the evaluation target screen drawn by the screen drawing unit.