Effective pigment identification method, identification system, identification program, and recording medium therefor
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1. A method of identifying an effective pigment comprising:
- imaging the effective pigment to obtain first image data, wherein the imaged effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation;
subjecting, using a computer, the obtained image data to background processing and extracting image data concerning a region containing only one particle of the effective pigment as second image data;
calculating, using the computer, characteristic parameters of the effective pigment from the second image data; and
identifying the effective pigment based at least in part on the extracted characteristic parameters and a pre-prepared database that stores, in a memory, information indicative of various kinds of effective pigments respectively associated with image data and characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments,wherein the identified effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation and the various kinds of effective pigments stored in the database each impart a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation, andwherein the stored image data of the various kinds of effective pigments each contain only one particle and the characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments are obtained by conducting said subjecting and said calculating, the characteristic parameters including parameters representing a color of the effective pigment, the parameters representing;
the color of the effective pigment including sine and cosine values of a dominant color hue angle, intensity of the dominant color, and saturation of the dominant color.
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The method of identifying an effective pigment comprises:
- a first step of imaging a target effective pigment to obtain image data thereof;
- a second step of subjecting the obtained image data to background processing and extracting image data concerning a region containing one particle of the effective pigment as image data for processing;
- a third step of extracting image characteristic parameters from the image data for processing; and
- a fourth step of identifying the target effective pigment, based on the image characteristic parameters of the target effective pigment extracted in the third step, using a pre-prepared database that stores information on various kinds of effective pigments in such a manner as to correlate with the image characteristic parameters of various kinds of effective pigments extracted by conducting the second and third steps.
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1. A method of identifying an effective pigment comprising:
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imaging the effective pigment to obtain first image data, wherein the imaged effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation; subjecting, using a computer, the obtained image data to background processing and extracting image data concerning a region containing only one particle of the effective pigment as second image data; calculating, using the computer, characteristic parameters of the effective pigment from the second image data; and identifying the effective pigment based at least in part on the extracted characteristic parameters and a pre-prepared database that stores, in a memory, information indicative of various kinds of effective pigments respectively associated with image data and characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments, wherein the identified effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation and the various kinds of effective pigments stored in the database each impart a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation, and wherein the stored image data of the various kinds of effective pigments each contain only one particle and the characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments are obtained by conducting said subjecting and said calculating, the characteristic parameters including parameters representing a color of the effective pigment, the parameters representing;
the color of the effective pigment including sine and cosine values of a dominant color hue angle, intensity of the dominant color, and saturation of the dominant color. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An effective pigment identification system comprising:
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an image-capturing device for imaging an effective pigment and obtaining first image data, wherein the imaged effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation; a characteristic parameter detector for background processing the first image data, extracting an image of only one particle of the effective pigment as second image data, then image processing the second image data to computer characteristic parameters of the effective pigment; and a recording device for storing a database of information indicative of various types of effective pigments respectively associated with image data and characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments, wherein the various types of effective pigments stored in the database each impart a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation, wherein the image data of the various kinds of effective pigments each contain only one particle and the characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments are obtained by conducting said extracting and said computing; wherein the characteristic parameter detector identifies the effective pigment based at least in part on the computed characteristic parameters and the database, and wherein the identified effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation, the characteristic parameters including parameters representing a color of the effective pigment, the parameters representing the color of the effective pigment including sine and cosine values of a dominant color hue angle, intensity of the dominant color, and saturation of the dominant color. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed cause a system to perform a method of identifying an effective pigment, the method comprising:
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imaging the effective pigment to obtain first image data, wherein the imaged effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation; subjecting the obtained image data to background processing and extracting image data concerning a region containing only one particle of the effective pigment as second image data; calculating characteristic parameters of the effective pigment from the second image data, the characteristic parameters including parameters representing a color of the effective pigment, the parameters representing the color of the effective pigment including sine and cosine values of a dominant color hue angle, intensity of the dominant color, and saturation of the dominant color; and identifying the effective pigment based at least in part on the extracted characteristic parameters and a pre-prepared database that stores information indicative of various kinds of effective pigments respectively associated with image data and characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments, wherein the identified effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation and the various kinds of effective pigments stored in the database each impart a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation, and wherein the image data of the various kinds of effective pigments each contain only one particle and the characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments are obtained by conducting said subjecting and said calculating, the characteristic parameters including parameters representing a color of the effective pigment, the parameters representing the color of the effective pigment including sine and cosine values of a dominant color hue angle, intensity of the dominant color, and saturation of the dominant color. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. An effective pigment identification system comprising:
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a camera configured to image an effective pigment and obtain first image data, wherein the imaged effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation; a database configured to store information indicative of various types of effective pigments respectively associated with image data and characteristic parameters of the various kinds of effective pigments, wherein the various types of effective pigments stored in the database each impart a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation; and a processor configured to; extract an image of only one particle of the effective pigment from the first image data as second image data, compute characteristic parameters of the effective pigment from the second image data, and identify the effective pigment based at least in part on the computed characteristic parameters and the database, wherein the identified effective pigment imparts a design effect that changes appearance with angle of observation, wherein the image data of the various types of effective pigments each contain only one particle and the characteristic parameters of the various types of effective pigments are obtained by said processor configured to extract and compute, the characteristic parameters including parameters representing a color of the effective pigment, the parameters representing the color of the effective pigment including sine and cosine values of a dominant color hue angle, intensity of the dominant color, and saturation of the dominant color.
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