公开(公告)号：US12174073B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-24

申请号：US17755885

申请日：2020-11-12

Applicant: BASF COATINGS GMBH

Inventor： Guido Bischoff ,  Donald R Baughman ,  Matthew Leopold ,  Stuart K Scott

IPC: G01J3/46 ,  B44D3/00 ,  G01J3/50 ,  G01N21/25 ,  G01N21/47 ,  G06T7/90 ,  G06V10/54 ,  G06V10/56 ,  H04N1/60

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, a respective device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method includes: obtaining color values, texture values and digital images of a target coating, retrieving from a database one or more preliminary matching formulas based on the color and/or texture values obtained for the target coating, determining sparkle points within the respective obtained images and within the respective images associated with the one or more preliminary matching formulas, creating subimages of each sparkle point from the respective images, providing the created subimages to a convolutional neural network, the convolutional neural network being trained to correlate a respective subimage of a respective sparkle point with a pigment and/or pigment class, and determining, based on an output of the neural network, at least one of the one or more preliminary matching formulas as the formula(s) best matching the target coating.