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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1996
Brendan G Busch, Woodside, CA (US);
Rosanna H Ho, Foster City, CA (US);
Marc R Keller, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hannes Ruescher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Eric P Wilfrid, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cathleen G Harris, Los Altos, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for selecting a color for display in a computer system. The present invention provides a color picker that displays the available colors in a honeycomb with an overall shape of a hexagon ('hexagonal honeycomb'). The color picker fills each cell of the honeycomb with a distinct color. The color picker fills each cell at a corner of the hexagonal honeycomb with certain colors and the center cell of the hexagonal honeycomb with a gray scale color. The other cells are filled with colors that are based approximately on their distance from the corner cells. The color picker also displays a second honeycomb that contains gray scale colors. A user then uses a mouse to select a cell of either honeycomb that contains the desired color.