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US 11,238,511 B2Granted
Home Décor color matching
AssigneePPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Caruso, Kevan M. Farley, Phillip J. Behrens
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Abstract
In one scenario, a computer system receives from a user an indicator of a home décor item. The computer system identifies a color associated with the presented home décor item, and further determines other home décor items that have colors that coordinate with the color of the presented home décor item. The computer system also displays to the user images of the determined other home décor items, receives user input selecting some of the displayed home décor items and informs the user which of the selected home décor items are available at the retail establishment.
Claims20
A computerized method for identifying and selecting, for a home project, home decor items of a retail establishment that color coordinate, through a kiosk at a point of sale location corresponding to the retail establishment, comprising:
- receiving from a user at the kiosk, an indicator of a home decor item;
- identifying, by the kiosk, at least one color associated with the presented home decor item, wherein:
- the kiosk includes a digital code scanner for reading a bar code or a QR code, and a spectrophotometer, and
- the at least one color is identified by the kiosk performing at least one of:
- (i) reading the bar code or QR code, or (ii) reading spectrophotometric information from the spectrophotometer;
- determining, by the kiosk, from the identified bar code, QR code, or spectrophotometric information one or more other home decor items that have colors that coordinate with the at least one color of the presented home decor item;
- wherein at least one of the coordinating colors (i) is a crowd sourced color representing color input from multiple different users at multiple other kiosks, and (ii) has been weighted over another associated color based on a characteristic of one or more other users at different geographic locations;
- displaying to the user, by the kiosk, images of the determined one or more other home decor items;
- receiving, by the kiosk, user input selecting one or more of the displayed home decor items;
- sending, by the kiosk, the user input selection to a remote crowd-sourced database hosting crowd-sourced color and home decor item associations;
- informing the user, by the kiosk, which of the selected home decor items are available at the retail establishment.
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A system for identifying and selecting, for a home project, home decor items of a retail establishment that color coordinate, comprising:
- a computerized device for positioning at a kiosk at a point of sale location corresponding to a retail establishment, the computerized device comprising (i) a display, (ii) a code scanner for scanning a barcode, QR code, or RFID, (iii) a spectrophotometer, and (iv) an input device, the computerized device being adapted to:
- receive an indicator of a home decor item by (i) scanning a barcode, QR code, or RFID presented by the home decor item, or by (ii) identifying spectrophotometric information of the home decor item via the spectrophotometer, wherein the indicator is received by the kiosk scanning a product presented by a user;
- determine a color associated with the indicated home decor item;
- determine one or more other home decor items that have colors that are associated with the color of the indicated home decor item, wherein the determination is made by retrieving a crowd-sourced association of the one or more other home decor items with the indicated home decor item from a remote crowd-sourced database;
- display images of the one or more other home decor items on the display, wherein at least one of the displayed other home decor items includes a weighting indicator that indicates how many other users select the displayed other home decor item as coordinating with the presented product;
- receive user input via the input device selecting one or more of the displayed home decor items;
- and
- inform the user via the display which of the selected home decor items are available at the retail establishment.
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A kiosk computer system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a receiving module, the receiving module receiving from a user an indicator of a home decor item;
- wherein the receiving module comprises:
- a (i) digital code scanner that scans a barcode, QR code, or RFID identifiable in a product or a paint chip presented by a user;
- and (ii) a spectrophotometer that identifies spectrophotometric information in a product or a paint chip presented by the user;
- a color identifying module, the color identifying module identifying at least one color associated with the presented home decor item;
- a home decor item determining module, wherein the home decor item determining module determines one or more other home decor items that have colors that are associated with the at least one color of the presented home decor item, wherein the home decor item determining module interfaces with a remote, crowd-sourced database to determine the association of the one or more other home decor items based on a characteristic of one or more users of a plurality of users represented in the crowd-sourced database;
- a display, wherein the display displays to the user images of the determined one or more other home decor items, along with a weight value corresponding to selections by one or more users of the plurality of users;
- the receiving module receiving user input selecting one or more of the displayed home decor items;
- and
- an informing module, the informing module informing the user which of the selected home decor items are available at the retail establishment;
- wherein the display indicates associations that are popular among other users in a geographic region of the user.
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