Method for identifying, displaying, selecting, naming and matching colors

• US 9,171,481 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2013
• Issued: 10/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kolormondo Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kolormondo Inc.
• Inventors: Kinch, Nicoline
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Xiao
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUTTRAM, ALAN T
• Application Number:
  US13/935,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20150010888A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/52 using colour charts
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/522 circular colour charts
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/526 for choosing a combination of different colours, e.g. to produce a pleasing effect for an observer
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0023 Colour matching, recognition, analysis, mixture or the like

Abstract

The color device has a core with hues that gradually change whiteness, respectively. The discs have hues covering an entire color spectrum at a certain level of whiteness. All hues of the first and second discs have the first and second level of whiteness, respectively. The discs extend perpendicularly outwardly from the core. The first disc is axially remote from the second disc so that a distance (d) is formed therebetween. The discs are aligned so that color cells of the first disc axially aligned with color cells of the second disc have identical hues except for different whiteness. The level of color saturation in the color cells is gradually increased radially outwardly from the core.

Claims

1. A color device, comprising,

a core having hues that gradually change whiteness from a black color shade at a first end to a white color shade at second end,

a first disc attached to a first position of the core having a first level of whiteness, the first disc having hues covering an entire color spectrum at the first level of whiteness,

a second disc attached to a second position of the core having a second level of whiteness, the second disc having hues covering an entire color spectrum at the second level of whiteness;

the first disc and the second disc extending perpendicularly outwardly from the core, the first disc being axially remote from the second disc so that a distance (d) is formed therebetween,

the first disc and the second disc being aligned so that color cells of the first disc axially aligned with color cells of the second disc having identical hues,

the first disc and the second disc having the color cells arranged so that a level of color saturation in the color cells is gradually increased radially outwardly from the core,

the first disc has a plurality of pie-shaped pieces, the pie-shaped pieces being slidable relative to one another;

a third disc placed between the first disc and the second disc at an equator position of the color device, the third disc having a plurality of slidable pie-shaped pieces, the third disc having most intense or most chromatic hues placed at a periphery of the third disc;

the slidable pie-shaped pieces of the third disc each having a radially directed color code line in a middle of the pie-shaped pieces, a first pie-shaped piece of the third disc having a first color code line and a second pie-shaped piece of the third disc having a second color code line, the first pie-shaped piece being placeable next to the second pie-shaped piece without the first or second color code lines coming in between the first and second pie-shaped pieces so that hues of the first pie-shaped piece are immediately adjacent to hues of the second pie-shaped piece,

the color cells of the first, second and third discs being visible when the first, second and third discs are attached to the core; and

each first, second and third disc being removable from the core.

2. The color device according to claim 1, wherein each color cells has a consistent level of color saturation within the color cell.

3. The color device according to claim 1, wherein each color cell has a consistent whiteness within the color cell.

4. The color device according to claim 1, wherein the color device has a third disc attached to the core, the first, second and third discs together forming a spherical shape.

5. The color device according to claim 1, wherein the pie-shaped pieces form a circle-shaped disc when the pie-shaped pieces are placed adjacent one another.

6. The color device according to claim 1, wherein each disc has circular bands of hues, each color shade in a peripheral band has an identical level of color saturation content.