Patent ID: 8517267

Claim:
Display apparatus comprising: a sample card display comprising an array of manually manipulable coded paint sample cards; a card reading video station positioned in said sample card display, the card reading video station having a touch sensitive visual display, the card reading video station being configured to read a code present on a coded paint sample card; a computer configured to control said video station and to cause display on said touch sensitive visual display of a color present on a said coded paint sample card in response to reading of said code and responsive to user selection to thereafter present a sequence of display screens on said visual display, wherein said display screens comprise: a first display screen displaying an image of a room and enabling a selected color to be applied to a selected area of the room image through a plurality of touch-select operations performed with respect to said first display screen; and a second locate chip display screen operable to display an image of the paint sample card array and to pinpoint the location in the image of said array of a paint sample card bearing a selected color.