Color calibration method and structure for vector error diffusion
First Claim
1. A color calibration method usable in a color-image vector error diffusion system which includes an image input device operating in one color space, and a multi-level image output device operating in an output-device-specific version of another color space, said method comprising performing a first image-data conversion which maps image data from the mentioned one color space to a generic version of the mentioned other color space, and thereafter performing a calibrated, second image-data conversion which maps image data from a generic version of the mentioned other color space to the mentioned output-device-specific version of the other color space.
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Abstract
A color calibration method (and related structure) usable in a color-image vector error diffusion system which includes an image input device operating in one color space, and an n-bit, multi-level image output device operating in an output-device-specific version of another color space. The method includes the steps of performing a first image-data conversion which maps image data from the mentioned one color space to a generic version of the mentioned other color space, and thereafter performing a calibrated, second image-data conversion which maps image data from a generic version of the mentioned other color space to the mentioned output-device-specific version of the other color space.
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1. A color calibration method usable in a color-image vector error diffusion system which includes an image input device operating in one color space, and a multi-level image output device operating in an output-device-specific version of another color space, said method comprising
performing a first image-data conversion which maps image data from the mentioned one color space to a generic version of the mentioned other color space, and thereafter performing a calibrated, second image-data conversion which maps image data from a generic version of the mentioned other color space to the mentioned output-device-specific version of the other color space.
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10. A method involving vector error diffusion in an color-imaging system employing an image input device and a multi-level image output device, which devices operate in different, respective, associated color spaces, said method comprising
preparing and utilizing at least one output-device-specific color palette which is output-device color-calibrated to perform color-image data conversion that maps color-image data which is en route from the input device to the output device to an output color space which is specifically associated with the output device.
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13. A color calibration method useable in a color-image vector error diffusion system which includes a color-image input device operating on one color space, and a multi-level color-image output device operating in a device-specific-version of another color space, said method comprising
performing a first color-image data conversion to map input-image data from the mentioned one color space to a form of intermediate image data in a generic version of the mentioned other color space, and thereafter performing a calibrated, second color-image data conversion to map such intermediate image data from the generic version of the other color space to a form of output image data in the mentioned device-specific version of the other color space.
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15. A color calibration method for vector error diffusion effective between a color image input device operating in one color space and a multi-level color image output device operating in another color space, said method comprising
preparing a first color palette for use in a practice of vector error diffusion intermediate such color image input and output devices, basing that preparing upon a reverse color conversion procedure which is effectively applied to a generated and calibrated color profile associated with the operation of the color image input device, and creating, intermediate the first color palette in the color image output device, a second color palette in the form of a color-calibrated output color index table.
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16. A color calibration organization useable in a color image vector error diffusion system intermediate an upstream color image input device which operates in one, input device color space, and a downstream, multi-level, color image output device which operates in another, output-device color space, said organization comprising
first and second, differently configured color palettes disposed in upstream and downstream relative positions respectively between said input and output devices, wherein said first color palette is constructed to map image data from the mentioned one color space to a generic version of the mentioned other color space, and said second color palette is structured to map image data from a generic version of the mentioned other color space to the mentioned output-device-specific version of the other color space.
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