Color reproduction system

• US 20040263638A1
• Filed: 04/21/2004
• Published: 12/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation, Telecommunications Advancement Organization Of Japan
• Inventors: Ohyama, Nagaaki, Yamaguchi, Masahiro, Ohsawa, Kenro
• Application Number:
  US10/493,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20040263638A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/465 Conversion of monochrome to colour
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/54 Conversion of colour picture signals to a plurality of signals some of which represent particular mixed colours, e.g. for textile printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6052 Matching two or more picture signal generators or two or more picture reproducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2209/043 using an alternating colour separation filter, e.g. colour wheel or colour LCD

Abstract

In a color reproduction system, under constraint conditions where colorimetric values of a subject spectrum, calculated by a colorimetric-value calculation unit (21), match colorimetric values of a display spectrum of a six-primary-color display (3), a signal calculation unit (22) calculates display signals such that squared errors between the subject spectrum and the display spectrum are minimized within the gamut of the remaining degree of freedom by using Lagrange'"'"'s method of undetermined coefficients or the reduced gradient method.

Claims

1. A color reproduction system comprising:

color conversion means for converting spectral data into display signals; and

color image display means for performing display on the basis of the display signals, wherein

the color conversion means converts spectral data into display signals such that a display spectrum relating to display by the color image display means is approximated to the spectral data within the gamut of the display spectrum realizable by the color image display means.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation under condition that colorimetric values of the spectral data match colorimetric values of the display spectrum, and then converts the spectral data into the display signals.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the colorimetric values are obtained using the arbitrary number of functions so as to have a one-to-one correspondence to each function.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the color conversion means approximates the spectral data weighted by a desired function to the display spectrum weighted by the desired function.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation between the spectral data and the display spectrum.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation whereby a display spectrum based on the display signals lies within the gamut of the display realizable by the color image display means.

7. The system according to claim 2, wherein the color conversion means approximates the spectral data weighted by a desired function to the display spectrum weighted by the desired function.

8. The system according to claim 3, wherein the color conversion means approximates the spectral data weighted by a desired function to the display spectrum weighted by the desired function.

9. The system according to claim 2, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation between the spectral data and the display spectrum.

10. The system according to claim 3, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation between the spectral data and the display spectrum.

11. The system according to claim 4, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation between the spectral data and the display spectrum.

12. The system according to claim 2, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation whereby a display spectrum based on the display signals lies within the gamut of the display realizable by the color image display means.

13. The system according to claim 3, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation whereby a display spectrum based on the display signals lies within the gamut of the display realizable by the color image display means.

14. The system according to claim 4, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation whereby a display spectrum based on the display signals lies within the gamut of the display realizable by the color image display means.

15. The system according to claim 5, wherein the color conversion means performs the approximation using least-squares approximation whereby a display spectrum based on the display signals lies within the gamut of the display realizable by the color image display means.