Color Selection, Coordination and Purchase System
First Claim
1. A paint color selection apparatus comprising:
- a website comprising one or more servers or computers for supplying data for generating a plurality of web pages, the web pages comprising;
a first home page for display on a computer controlled display apparatus, the first home page comprising a first featured project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of said image;
at least one hot spot located in one of said regions, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; and
wherein a first selection operation performable on said hot spot causes display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the region where said hot spot lies.
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Abstract
A paint color selection website arranged to provide a plurality of home pages each comprising a featured project image, each project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of the image with at least one “hot spot” located in one or more of the regions, each hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature responsive to a first selection operation to cause display of at least one color name, the color name being that of the color of the region where the hot spot lies. The home pages further may include real-life simulating animation features while the system software is operable to select the relative frequency with which each home page appears in response, for example, to a user'"'"'s successive home page selections. An animated color sheen selection tool is also provided.
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33 Claims
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1. A paint color selection apparatus comprising:
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a website comprising one or more servers or computers for supplying data for generating a plurality of web pages, the web pages comprising; a first home page for display on a computer controlled display apparatus, the first home page comprising a first featured project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of said image; at least one hot spot located in one of said regions, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; and wherein a first selection operation performable on said hot spot causes display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the region where said hot spot lies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 30, 31)
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18. An automated method for providing color selection capability to a user comprising:
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employing one or more programmed computers to perform a plurality of operations in conjunction with a computer readable medium or media, the operations comprising; providing a first home page for display on a computer controlled display, the first home page comprising a first featured project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of said image; positioning at least one hot spot in one of said regions, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; and the one or more computers being responsive to a first selection operation performable on said hot spot to cause display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the region where said hot spot lies. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A paint color selection apparatus comprising:
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at least one server for transmitting data defining a first home page, the first home page comprising a first featured project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of said image; at least one hot spot located in one of said regions, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; wherein a first selection operation on said hot spot causes display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the region where said hot spot lies; and a computer controlled display apparatus adapted to display said home page.
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22. Computer software comprising:
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a computer usable medium or media; computer readable program code embodied in said medium or media, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed by one or more computers to generate a first home page, said home page comprising; a first featured project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of said image; at lease one hot spot located in one of said regions, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; and wherein a first selection operation on said hot spot causes display of at least one color name, said color name being that of the color of the region where said hot spot lies.
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23. An apparatus comprising:
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a website comprising one or more servers or computers for supplying data for generating a plurality of web pages, the web pages comprising; a first web page for display on a computer controlled display apparatus, the first web page comprising an image of a selected product; at least one hot spot located on said product, the hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature; and wherein a first selection operation performable on said hot spot causes display of at least one informational element regarding said product. - View Dependent Claims (21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33)
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