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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2012
Behr Process Corporation, Santa Ana, CA (US);
John Buzyn, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Bernadette Irizarry, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Doug Milsom, Tacoma, WA (US);
Damien Reynolds, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Donna Une, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Marc Webb, Orange, CA (US);
Behr Process Corporation, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
An automated method and apparatus for providing color selection capability to a user wherein a first display is generated on a display apparatus of an array of color family groups disposed in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Upon selection of a particular color family group, a second display is generated comprising an enlarged display of a particular selected color family group and a reduced size miniature version of the array of color family groups. A third display may further be generated in response to selection of a color chip on the second display during which generation a color chip selected on the second display is caused to appear in an enlarged form in the third display.