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Color name determination device, color name determination method, information recording medium, and program

US8891860B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 1, 2012
Grant dateNov 18, 2014
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Expiry dateAug 1, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2207/30176
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a color name determination device, a color receiver receives input of a color, a document retriever retrieves for documents in which images relating to the received color are disposed, a key word extractor extracts key word character strings appearing in the retrieved documents, an image retriever retrieves for images relating to the extracted key word character strings, a degree acquirer represents, with a predetermined accuracy, colors appearing in the images as a retrieval result and acquires degrees at which the colors appear in the images, a color determiner determines color indicated by the received character string on the basis of the acquired degrees, and a color naming determiner determines, if the received color and the determined color are the same or similar, the a key word character string corresponding to the determined color is a color name character string indicating the received color.

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