Patent ID: 8284400

Claim:
A hand-held color measurement device, comprising a housing in which an opto-electronic measurement unit is situated which receives measurement light, emitted from a measurement object, through a measurement window in a front wall of the housing, converts it into corresponding electrical measurement signals, processes these measurement signals to form digital measurement data which characterizes the color of the measurement object, and provides it via a communications interface, wherein a substantially U-shaped bracket is arranged on the housing and includes two substantially parallel side arms and a middle portion which connects them and is provided with an optical diffuser, wherein the two side arms are rotatably mounted on opposite walls of the housing such that the bracket can be pivoted by substantially 180° from a monitor position to an ambient light position and onwards or back to the monitor position, and wherein when the bracket is in the ambient light position, the diffuser arranged in its middle portion lies in front of the measurement window in the front wall of the housing, and when the bracket is in the monitor position, the diffuser is situated at a rear wall of the housing opposite the front wall, and in that mutually cooperating holding means are provided on the housing and on the two side arms of the bracket and releasably fix the bracket in its monitor position or ambient light position, respectively.