A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate color chart data, a transport unit configured to intermittently transport a medium, a printing unit configured to print a colorimetric patches on a processing unit region, a drying unit configured to dry the processing unit region, and a colorimetric unit configured to measure a color of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region subjected to the drying, wherein the control unit is configured to acquire, based on a printing setting, a drying holding time during which the processing unit region is held at the drying unit, calculate a color-measurable patch number which is measurable by the colorimetric unit within the drying holding time, and generate the color chart data for printing a number of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region, the number being less than or equal to the color-measurable patch number.

A determining system includes an acquiring unit that acquires a color value of a target seal material, a storage unit that stores a color value of each of a plurality of candidate seal materials of different types, a color difference calculating unit that calculates a color difference between each of the candidate seal materials and the target seal material based on the color value of each of the candidate seal materials and the color value of the target seal material, a degree of coincidence calculating unit that calculates a degree of coincidence between each of the candidate seal materials and the target seal material based on the color difference between each of the candidate seal materials and the target seal material, and a determining unit that determines a type of the target seal material based on each of the degrees of coincidence calculated.

An information processing apparatus (10) for evaluating the chromatic discriminability of content includes: a unit (S12) that converts the color space values of each of first and second verification points A and B on the content into Lab color space values; a unit (S13) that calculates the color difference and the lightness difference between the first and second verification points based on the Lab color space values; and a unit (S23, S24) that determines color-difference discriminability by comparing the color difference between the first and second verification points with a color-difference threshold, and determines lightness-difference discriminability by comparing the lightness difference between the first and second verification points with a lightness-difference threshold. Each of the color-difference threshold and the lightness-difference threshold is set to a value that depends on whether a region containing the first verification point and a region containing the second verification point are adjoining or not.

A solar cell module, which is easily coordinated with the color of an exterior member at the installation position, comprises a solar cell; a light receiving side sealing material and a light receiving side protection member laminated and disposed in this order on a light receiving side with reference to the solar cell; and a back-side sealing material and a back-side protection member laminated and arranged in this order on a back side on the opposite side from the light receiving side. A value computed from a measured value of the color of reflected light combining positive reflected light and diffused reflected light which are based on light that has become incident on an object to be measured, and a measured value of the color only of the diffused reflected light based on the light that has become incident on the object to be measured, satisfies a specific condition.

A method for color shade matching obtains a 3D tooth surface representation using an intraoral scanner wherein the 3D tooth surface representation comprises surface data and a spatially resolved angular distribution of color vectors, wherein the spatially resolved angular distribution of color vectors associates one or more point positions from the surface data to the corresponding angular distribution of color vectors. The method identifies one or more shade values, where each shade value is associated with one angular distribution of color vectors from the spatially resolved angular distribution of color vectors, by comparing the angular distribution of color vectors to a set of reference angular distributions of color vectors, wherein each reference angular distribution in the set is associated with a corresponding shade value. The method displays, stores, or transmits the surface data with an indication of the one or more shade values.

Described herein are various technologies pertaining to a sensor system for an autonomous vehicle (AV) that includes a single photon accelerated diode (SPAD) array. The SPAD array includes several pixels. A filter layer is arranged proximate the several pixels, where the filter layer includes color filter portions and unfiltered portions that are respectively aligned with first pixels of the SPAD array and second pixels of the SPAD array. A computing system determines both range to an object and information pertaining to color of the object based upon values read out from the pixels of the SPAD array.

Disclosed herein is a method and a device that can measure an unknown target coating; can search, based on the measured data of the target coating, a database for one or more best matching coating formulas, i.e. one or more preliminary matching formulas, within the database; and that can refine the search using an image similarity metric between images of the one or more best matching coating formulas on the one side and images of the target coating on the other side, using deep learning techniques.

A custom-tint paint production system that includes a color sensing device such as a low-resolution spectrophotometer to measure color of a preexisting surface color, a color data translation engine to convert the measured values to spectral curve values, and a tint formulation engine to determine a custom tint formulation based upon the spectral curve values, which is usable by a tinter to tint a base coating composition by adding one or more colorants in amounts based on color measurements from the color sensing device.

A custom-tint paint production system that includes a color sensing device such as a low-resolution spectrophotometer to measure color of a preexisting surface color, a color data translation engine to convert the measured values to spectral curve values, and a tint formulation engine to determine a custom tint formulation based upon the spectral curve values, which is usable by a tinter to tint a base coating composition by adding one or more colorants in amounts based on color measurements from the color sensing device.

In a direct stimulus value reading type colorimetric photometer, first, second, and third colorimetric optical systems have spectral responsivities approximate to first, second, and third parts of the color matching function, respectively. A deriving unit derives a colorimetric value corresponding to a case in which the color matching function is selected as an evaluation function for colorimetry and a photometric value corresponding to a case in which the spectral luminous efficiency is selected as an evaluation function for photometry (i.e. “CASE”) from three signals. The spectral luminous efficiency is not consistent with any one of the first, second, and third parts. A fourth colorimetric optical system may have spectral responsivity approximate to the spectral luminous efficiency, and the deriving unit may derive the colorimetric value corresponding to the CASE from a fourth signal.