Color designating server, color ordering system, color designating method, color ordering method and its program

• US 20030216972A1
• Filed: 05/16/2003
• Published: 11/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Incorporated
• Inventors: Gotou, Hiroki, Okauchi, Masaki, Shishikura, Masami, Nakamuro, Masao, Nakagawa, Masaaki, Uchimi, Hideki, Hatanaka, Mitsuo, Tomita, Yoshiro, Yuasa, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US10/438,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20030216972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/46 Measurement of colour; Colour measuring devices, e.g. colorimeters measuring colour temperature G01J5/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

This color designating server 11 displays a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network. This server 11 includes a database 102 that contains information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors, a conditions specification processing section 104 that transmits a conditions specification screen to the user terminal which prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors, a color information extraction section 115 that extracts matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with the condition information from database 102 based on the condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and a color information transmission section 105 that transmits a color plate that indicates the extracted color data to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color.

Claims

1. A color designating server that displays a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network, comprising:

a matchable color information database containing information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors,

a conditions specification processing unit which transmits to the user terminal a conditions specification screen that prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors,

a color information extraction unit which extracts matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with condition information from the matchable color information database based on said condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and

a color information transmission unit which transmits a color plate that indicates the extracted color data to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color.

2. The color designating server according to claim 1, wherein the color information extraction unit extracts a plurality of sample color data based on condition information from a user terminal, and the color information transmission unit transmits the plurality of sample color data to the user terminal by arranging within a display area of a prescribed background color at prescribed intervals.

3. The color designating server according to claim 1, wherein the color information transmission unit selects color data specified by a user in the form of specified color data from a plurality of sample color data based on a selection signal input from a user terminal, and transmits said color data to a user terminal by arranging within a display area of a prescribed background color.

4. The color designating server according to claim 1, wherein the prescribed background color is achromatic color.

5. The color designating server according to claim 4, wherein the range of the display area is surrounded by a white border of a prescribed width, and the periphery of this white border is surrounded by a black border of a prescribed width.

6. The color designating server according to claim 1, further comprising a color matching information transmission unit that extracts color matching data of the dyes and pigments used for matching the specified color from a color matching database, and transmits that data to a user terminal.

7. A color ordering system comprising:

a color designating server that displays a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network; and

an order receiving system that receives order information received by the color designating server from the user terminal;

wherein,

the color designating server comprises;

a matchable color information database containing information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors,

a conditions specification processing unit which transmits to the user terminal a conditions specification screen that prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors,

a color information extraction unit which extracts matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with condition information from the matchable color information database based on said condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and

a color information transmission unit which transmits a color plate that indicates the extracted color data to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color; and

,

the order receiving system comprises;

an order receiving unit that receives and processes orders for the user based on the received order information.

8. The color ordering system according to claim 7, wherein the color information extraction unit extracts a plurality of sample color data based on condition information from a user terminal, and the color information transmission unit transmits the plurality of sample color data to the user terminal by arranging within a display area of a prescribed background color at prescribed intervals.

9. The color ordering system according to claim 7, wherein the color information transmission unit selects color data specified by a user in the form of specified color data from a plurality of sample color data based on a selection signal input from a user terminal, and transmits said color data to a user terminal by arranging within a display area of a prescribed background color.

10. The color ordering system according to claim 7, further comprising a color matching information transmission unit that extracts color matching data of the dyes and pigments used for matching the specified color from a color matching database, and transmits that data to a user terminal.

11. A color designating method of displaying a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network, comprising:

a matchable color storage step in which information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors is contained in a matchable color information database,

a conditions specification step in which a conditions specification screen that prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors is transmitted to the user terminal,

a color information extraction step in which matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with the condition information is extracted from the matchable color information database based on condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and

a color information transmission step in which a color plate that indicates the extracted color data is transmitted to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color.

12. The color designating method according to claim 11, wherein the color information extraction step comprises a step of extracting a plurality of sample color data based on condition information from a user terminal, and the color information transmission step comprises a step of transmitting this plurality of sample color data to the user terminal by arranging within a display area of a prescribed background color at prescribed intervals.

13. The color designating method according to claim 11, wherein the color information transmission step comprises a step of selecting color data specified by a user in the form of specified color data from a plurality of sample color data based on a selection signal input from a user terminal, and transmits said color data to a user terminal by arranging within a display area of a prescribed background color.

14. The color designating method according to claim 11, further comprising a color matching information transmission step that extracts color matching data of the dyes and pigments used for matching the specified color from the matchable color database, and transmits that data to a user terminal.

15. A program that allows color designation and processing that displays a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network to be executed by a computer, comprising:

matchable color storage processing which contains information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors in a matchable color information database,

conditions specification processing which transmits to the user terminal a conditions specification screen that prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors,

color information extraction processing which extracts matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with condition information from the matchable color information database based on said condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and

color information transmission processing which transmits a color plate that indicates the extracted color data to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color.

16. A computer readable medium storing the program according to claim 15.