Patent Document ID: 8326017
Application ID: 12684920
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for monitoring paint color across regions of a vehicle, for identifying color mismatches, and for dynamically determining the acceptability of an identified mismatch, the system comprising: a vehicle image acquisition array for digitally scanning selected regions of the vehicle; an image analyzer connected with said vehicle image acquisition array, said image analyzer being initially programmed with upper and lower standard confidence color curves, said image analyzer including software to: convert an image of one of said scanned regions acquired by said vehicle image acquisition array into a standard image format from which actual individual color curves are extracted; and compare said extracted color curves against said standard confidence color curves to determine whether or not said extracted color curves fall within said upper and lower standard confidence color curves by establishing a percentage match for said one of said scanned regions, wherein said initially programmed upper and lower standard confidence color curves may be adjusted during color testing based upon accumulated extracted color curves of said selected regions.