US Patent Issued to Akzo Nobel Coatings International on Sept. 30 for "Method for determining representative colours from at least one digital colour image" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,803, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Method for determining representative colours from at least one digital colour image" was invented by Peter Mark Spiers (Amsterdam) and Arjan Gijsenij (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for determining a predetermined number, k, of representative colours from at least one digital colour image is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: a) obtaining at least one digital colour image having a number, p, of pixels each pixel having a colour value within an n-dimensional colour space; b) defining a pred...