A real-time color-matching method based on SmartPhones for color-blind people

In this paper, we propose a real-time color-matching method based on smart phones for color-blind people. Most people have no trouble seeing color, but about 8% of males and less than 1% of females have faulty color perception from birth. Recently, some applications based on mobile phones have become available for color-blind people. However, most cannot compare colors in real time but just provide color values and names based on the capture images of mobile cameras. However, the proposed method can be used to match colors in real time, as it can report similar colors based on comparisons between capture images and real-time camera images on smart phones. To evaluate the efficacy of the proposed method, we conducted a color-matching experiment, and the matching success rate was 99%. Therefore, the proposed method will be a useful technique for color-blind people.