Method and Apparatus for Comparing Colors
OwnerLee Kaplaninventor
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Abstract
A Method and Apparatus for Comparing Colors have been disclosed. In one implementation a compliant membrane which is substantially transparent with an area having a shade/color is placed on the user's skin to see what the shade/color will look like on the skin. In one implementation a compliant substrate which is largely transparent with an area having a shade/color is placed on an inanimate object to see how the shade/color will appear on the inanimate object without the substrate itself causing an unnecessary barrier between the inanimate object and the shade/color.
Claims20
A method of making a color comparison device comprising:
- defining a first region on a substrate, the substrate having a first reflectivity, a first absorptivity, and a first transmissivity;
- placing on a second region of the substrate a color sample, the color sample having a second reflectivity, a second absorptivity, and a second transmissivity;
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- wherein the second region of the substrate having the color sample has a third reflectivity, a third absorptivity, and a third transmissivity;
- wherein the substrate first transmissivity is greater than zero;
- wherein the third transmissivity is less than the first transmissivity;
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- wherein the first region on the substrate and the second region of the substrate are not a same region.
A method for limiting the spread of pathogens when trying out makeup, the method comprising:
- providing a sample of the makeup on a second region of a comparison device, the comparison device having a first region, the first region of the comparison device having a first reflectivity and the first region does not contain the sample of the makeup, the second region is covered with the sample of the makeup and has a second reflectivity, wherein the second reflectivity is different than the first reflectivity;
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- providing the comparison device for placement proximate to a user's body part.
An apparatus, comprising:
- one or more color samples applied on a first portion of a substantially transparent pliable substrate the substantially transparent pliable substrate impervious to the one or more color samples applied on the first port of the substantially transparent pliable substrate and impervious to pathogens;
- a second portion of the substantially transparent pliable substrate is free of the one or more color samples;
- one or more identification marking areas to identify the one or more color samples;
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- wherein at least one of the one or more identification marking areas is located on the substantially transparent pliable substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.