Color Selection System Using Emotional Response Models
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing color selection tools face challenges in assisting users, including consumers and designers, in making confident and satisfying color choices due to the abundance of color options, as they often fail to account for human emotional responses and color harmony effectively.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and device that generates a visual user interface displaying color groups based on emotional responses and harmony, using mathematical models derived from human psychophysical perceptions to provide feedback on color selections, allowing users to select colors that evoke specific emotions and create harmonious combinations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional color selection tools are used to present all available color options, then users have access to complete color choices, but users experience confusion and difficulty in making confident selections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the overwhelming array of color options into organized groups based on emotional responses (e.g., calming, exciting, warm, cool) and harmony characteristics. This segmentation allows users to navigate colors systematically rather than being confronted with all options simultaneously, thereby maintaining complete color accessibility while reducing selection confusion.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback by calculating and displaying harmony scores and emotional response indicators for color combinations. This feedback mechanism guides users toward confident selections by objectively evaluating how well colors work together and what emotions they evoke, transforming subjective color selection into an informed decision-making process.
2Quantity of substance
If color selection tools focus on providing comprehensive color options, then color variety is maximized, but human emotional responses and color harmony are not effectively accounted for
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the color selection process by introducing new parameters for evaluation: emotional response metrics (calming, exciting, warm, cool) and harmony scores. These parameters are calculated using mathematical models that process color data and provide quantitative measures of emotional impact and harmonious relationships, thereby preserving color variety while recovering previously lost emotional and harmonic information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces mathematical models and computational algorithms as intermediaries between the physical color properties and human emotional responses. These intermediaries process color data through psychophysical models to predict emotional impacts and harmony characteristics, bridging the gap between objective color measurements and subjective human perceptions.
3Ease of operation
If users rely on personal intuition for color selection, then selection process is simple, but results may not achieve desired emotional impact or harmony
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by providing users with automated harmony evaluation and emotional response prediction tools. Users input their desired emotional outcome (e.g., calming bedroom atmosphere), and the system automatically evaluates color combinations and recommends options that meet the criteria, combining simplicity with reliability through algorithmic assistance rather than requiring expert knowledge.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback on color combinations through calculated harmony scores and emotional response indicators. This feedback loop allows users to see the predicted impact of their selections before finalizing choices, ensuring that intuitive selections are validated or adjusted based on objective measures of effectiveness rather than guesswork.
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AI summary
Color selection and display methods and devices in which colors can be displayed according to color harmony and color emotion and feedback obtained on color emotion and color harmony evoked by selected color and/or color combinations.