Remote Color Measurement for Harmonious Building Color Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Color strategists face limitations in serving multiple clients due to travel time and distance, and existing methods struggle to create refined color harmony under fluctuating lighting conditions and individual color acuity, making it difficult to efficiently select and recommend colors for building interiors and exteriors.

Innovation Solution

A system and process that includes shipping a color-measuring instrument to clients, allowing them to collect color data from multiple surfaces, which is then analyzed using artificial intelligence to formulate color recommendations, reducing the need for on-site visits and enhancing color consultation efficiency and reliability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If color strategists travel to client locations to assist with color selection, then they can provide personalized color consulting services, but travel time and distance limit the number of clients they can serve

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecolor consulting service qualityVSAvoidnumber of clients served

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses color-measuring instruments to create digital color data copies of the client's existing surfaces, which are then transmitted electronically to the color strategist. This eliminates the need for physical travel while preserving the ability to analyze and recommend colors based on accurate color measurements, thus resolving the contradiction between service quality and client volume capacity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of physical travel with an electronic data transmission system. Color-measuring instruments capture color information and transmit it digitally to the color strategist, substituting the mechanical act of traveling to client locations with an electronic information exchange process, thereby increasing productivity without sacrificing service quality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of operation

If color strategists rely on human eye alone to create color harmony, then they can provide color recommendations, but fluctuating lighting conditions and individual color acuity reduce measurement precision

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecolor selection process simplicityVSAvoidcolor data accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the human visual system with color-measuring instruments that objectively measure color data. These instruments provide precise, quantifiable color measurements that are not affected by lighting conditions or individual color acuity, thereby improving measurement precision while maintaining ease of operation through automated measurement processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces color-measuring instruments as intermediaries between the client's surfaces and the color strategist's analysis. These instruments serve as mediators that capture accurate color data and transmit it to the strategist, eliminating the need for direct human visual assessment and its associated limitations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If color strategists manually search through innumerable paint colors and materials, then they can create comprehensive color design plans, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecolor design plan qualityVSAvoidcolor selection time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual searching and analysis with automated computer-based systems that process color data and generate design recommendations. The system automatically analyzes the measured color data, compares it against extensive color databases, and generates coordinated color schemes, thereby maintaining comprehensive design quality while dramatically reducing the time required

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a system where the computer automatically performs the analysis and recommendation generation without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by automatically processing color data, searching through color databases, and generating design plans, eliminating the time-consuming manual search process while maintaining design quality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12555150B2Color design process and system

Publication Date: 2026.02.17 THE LAND OF COLOR LLC

AI summary

Processes and systems for recommending to clients colors and color schemes for design purposes based on measured existing surface colors without a color strategist traveling to the worksite. A design process includes: receiving from a client information and payment for color consulting services, shipping a portable color-measuring instrument to the client; providing instructions to the client for operating the color-measuring instrument, receiving measured color data that was obtained by the client using the color-measuring instrument on multiple surfaces, formulating color recommendations based on the measured color data, and providing the color recommendations to the client. A design system for selecting color includes apparatuses that: gather and provide information, receive payment, ship the color-measuring instrument, and formulate the colors or color scheme.