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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Yutaka Masuda, Fujisawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yutaka Masuda, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kansai Paint Co., Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Characteristic parameters of brilliant materials used for a paint color whose composition is unknown are visually extracted, an image database is retrieved by using the extracted characteristic parameters as keywords, the image of a closest single brilliant material is displayed on a monitor, and the image of the unknown-composition paint color with the image of a single brilliant material to identify the type of a brilliant material used for the unknown-composition paint color.