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AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsRobin R. Beistline, Eric A. Dunkelberg, Jonathan C. McCay, Lisa R. Bailey, Richard W. Stoyles, Lou H. Webster, John K. Gurr
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A textile substrate such as patterned carpet for coordinating with other flooring is provided. The substrate includes a multi-colored pattern produced by a process for coloring substrates, using the application of liquid colorants, in which the assignment of color is done on a pixel-by-pixel basis, and corresponding products. Relatively large areas of a substrate may be given the appearance of being uniformly colored by successively replicating or tiling a group of individually colored pixels comprising a repeating unit (i.e., a superpixel) across the substrate surface. The repeating unit is constructed in such a way that if a colorant application error develops, causing one or more pixels within the repeating unit to be colored incorrectly or incompletely, the overall arrangement of the pixels within the repeating unit will render such error less visually apparent when viewed on the substrate. A display rug having a plurality of areas of different patterns, colors or shades is provided. Also, a display rug and a display cover is provided.
A textile substrate for coordinating with other flooring, furnishings, pattern goods, or the like, having one or more patterns, colors or shades thereon produced by a process including the steps of constructing a superpixel to be replicated on the surface of the substrate, said superpixel being comprised of a plurality of contiguous pixels that collectively provide said superpixel with a geometric shape that can be tiled on said substrate surface, each of said plurality of contiguous pixels comprising said superpixel being assigned a color from a dither palette in a relative proportion to simulate a target color, wherein at least two different colors are individually assigned within said superpixel in accordance with a placement algorithm that precludes the assignment of the same color on adjacent pixels within said superpixel, and applying said colors to the surface of the substrate by tiling said superpixel in a repeating manner across the surface of the substrate such that on the surface of the substrate no adjacent pixels have the same color, wherein said substrate is one of a display or sample carpet or rug, and comprising a plurality of shades, colors or patterns of a color or product line on a single carpet or rug substrate for display as a selling tool.
A display substrate having at least four areas of different patterns, colors or shades produced by a process including the steps of constructing a superpixel to be replicated on the surface of the substrate, said superpixel being comprised of an N ×N array of pixels, each of said pixels having been assigned a color from a dither palette in a relative proportion to simulate a target color, wherein said colors are assigned within said superpixel in accordance with a placement algorithm that assigns a given color to a pixel in each of the N rows and each of the N columns in a manner that said given color is found no more than once in any row or column in said array and each pixel assigned to said given color is surrounded by pixels to which other colors have been assigned;
A display substrate having at least two areas of different patterns, colors or shades produced by a process including the steps of constructing a superpixel to be replicated on the surface of the substrate, said superpixel being comprised of an N ×N array of pixels, each of said pixels having been assigned a color from a dither palette in a relative proportion to simulate a target color, wherein said colors are assigned within said superpixel in accordance with a placement algorithm that assigns a given color to a pixel in each of the N rows and each of the N columns in a manner that said given color is found no more than once in any row or column in said array and each pixel assigned to said given color is surrounded by pixels to which other colors have been assigned:
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