DETERMINING COLOR NAMES FROM KEYWORD SEARCHES OF COLOR PALETTES

• US 20150379002A1
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Published: 12/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dorner, Charles Shearer, Blackburn, Jenny Ann, Ong, Timothy Andrew, Sayre, Paul Barnhart III
• Granted Patent: US 9,898,487 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein to determine data, including color names, associated with color palettes identified from keyword searches. Color palettes may be searched by name or other data associated with the color palettes. Images and/or items may be retrieved based at least in part on the colors of the color palettes. Individual colors may be associated with color names based at least in part on human surveys and/or color names may be retrieved. Furthermore, the color names of individual colors may be retrieved based at least in part on a fast color search and/or associated with human votes. Various user interfaces may provide color palettes, images, and/or color names to users based at least in part on keyword searching of color palettes.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a data store configured to store at least a plurality of color palettes, a plurality of images, and a plurality of color names, wherein each color palette of the plurality of color palettes comprises a plurality of colors, and wherein each image of the plurality of images comprises one or more colors, and wherein each color of the plurality of color names is associated with one or more colors; and

a hardware processor in communication with the data store, the hardware processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions to at least;

receive a search phrase;

select a color palette from the plurality of color palettes based at least in part on the search phrase;

identify an image from the plurality of images matching an input color of the selected color palette;

determine a color range based at least in part on a color distance from the input color in a color space;

determine a color name associated with a match color, wherein the match color is within the color range; and

cause presentation of a user interface comprising the identified image and the determined color name.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one color name comprises human generated data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the color name associated with the match color is based at least in part on vote data associated with at least one color name.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the color name associated with the match color is based at least in part on demographic data associated with the color name.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute computer-executable instructions to at least:

determine metadata associated with the selected image; and

cause the presentation of the user interface to include the metadata associated with the selected image.

6. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of a hardware computing device configured with specific computer-executable instructions,

receiving a search phrase;

selecting a color palette from a plurality of color palettes based at least in part on the search phrase, wherein each color palette of the plurality of color palettes comprises one or more colors;

determining a first color name based at least in part on a search of a first color of the selected color palette;

determining a second color name based at least in part on a search of the first color of the selected color palette; and

causing presentation of a user interface comprising the selected color palette, the first color name, and the second color name.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein at least one of the first color name of the second color name comprises human generated data.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the first color name is further determined based at least in part on votes associated with the first color name.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the first color name is further determined based at least in part on a category associated with the first color name.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the first color name is further determined based at least in part on a color naming rule that uses the category of the first color name.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the first color name is further determined based at least in part on at least one of demographic data or localization data.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein determining the first color name further comprises matching the first color within a color range of a color space.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the demographic data comprises at least one of geolocation data, gender data, age data, ethnic data, religion data, language data, or cultural data.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform operations comprising:

receiving a search phrase;

selecting a color palette from a plurality of color palettes based at least in part on the search phrase, wherein each color palette of the plurality of color palettes comprises one or more colors;

identifying at least one image corresponding to a first color of the selected color palette, wherein the at least one image comprises at least one color; and

determining a color name based at least in part on a search of a first color of the selected color palette.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the determined color name is further determined based at least in part on a category associated with the determined color name.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the determined color name is further determined based at least in part on applying color naming rules to the category of the determined color name.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the determined color name is further determined based at least in part on at least one of demographic data or localization data.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the demographic data comprises at least one of geolocation data, gender data, age data, ethnic data, religion data, language data, or cultural data.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the determined color name comprises human generated data.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the search phrase is based at least in part on user input.