Patent ID: 7181064

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising: a computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a computer system to perform a method of measuring color consistency, the method comprising: obtaining a first two-dimensional image and a second two-dimensional image of an object; subdividing the first image into a first set of image partitions and the second image into a second set of image partitions, each image partition having a color; selecting a first subset of image partitions in the first set of image partitions and a second subset of image partitions in the second set of image partitions based upon a criteria related to a three-dimensional region of the object; placing each image partition in the first subset in one of a first series of histogram subdivisions and each image partition in the second subset in one of a second series of histogram subdivisions based on the color value of each image partition; comparing the first series of histogram subdivisions to the second series of histogram subdivisions; and including the region in a three-dimensional model of the object if the first series of histogram subdivisions and the second series of histogram subdivisions have a similarity.