Color Transformation Luminance Correction Method and Device

• US 20080204469A1
• Filed: 05/02/2006
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Jaspers, Cornelis Antoine Maria
• Application Number:
  US11/913,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20080204469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6027 Correction or control of colour gradation or colour contrast H04N1/6058 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/67 for matrixing camera processing pipelines for matrixing of colour signals H04N23/85

Abstract

The method of color correction in a luminance direction, comprises: applying a color transformation (T) to an input color (Ci), yielding a transformed color (Ct); determining a scaling factor (f) on the basis of a first display driving value representation (Rs5Gs5Bs) of the input color (Ci) and a second display driving value representation (Rt5Gt5Bt) of the transformed color (Ct); and multiplying a color representation of the transformed color (Ct) with the scaling factor (f) to obtain an output color (Co). It can be used to mitigate luminance errors introduced by the transformation (T).

Claims

1. A method of color correction in a luminance direction, comprising:

applying a color transformation (T) to an input color (Ci) defined with respect to put primaries to yield a transformed color (Ct) defined with respect to display primaries, wherein the display primaries form a primary system different than the primary system formed by the input primaries;

determining a scaling factor (f) on the basis of a first display driving value representation (Rs,Gs,Bs) of the input color (Ci) and a second display driving value representation (Rt,Gt,Bt) of the transformed color (Ct); and

multiplying a color representation of the transformed color (Ct) with the scaling factor (f) to obtain an output color (Co).

2. A method of color correction in a luminance direction as claimed in claim 1, in which the determining a scaling factor (f) comprises determining the scaling factor on the basis of the maximal one of the display driving values of the first display driving value representation (Rs,Gs,Bs) and the maximal one of the display driving values of the second display driving value representation (Rt,Gt,Bt).

3. A method of color correction in a luminance direction as claimed in claim 2, in which the determining a scaling factor (f) comprises determining the scaling factor as the maximal one of the display driving values of the first display driving value representation (Rs,Gs,Bs) divided by the maximal one of the display driving values of the second display driving value representation (Rt,Gt,Bt).

4. A method of color correction in a luminance direction as claimed in claim 1, in which the applying a color transformation (T) is performed in a display driving value representation.

9. A computer program product comprising code enabling a processor to execute steps of the method as claimed in claim 1, the steps being:

determining a scaling factor (f) on the basis of a first display driving value representation (Rs,Gs,Bs) of an input color (Ci) and a second display driving value representation (Rt,Gt,Bt) of a transformed color (Ct) resulting from applying a color transformation (T) to the input color (Ci); and

multiplying a color representation of the transformed color (Ct) with the scaling factor (f) to obtain an output color (Co).

5. A device (100) for color correction in a luminance direction, comprising:

a color transformation unit (101), arranged to apply a color transformation (T) to an input color (Ci) defined with respect to input primaries to yield a transformed color (Ct) defined with respect to display primaries, wherein the display primaries form a primary system different than the primary system formed by the input primaries;

a scaling factor determination unit (107), arranged to determine a scaling factor (f) on the basis of a first display driving value representation (Rs,Gs,Bs) of the input color (Ci) and a second display driving value representation (Rt,Gt,Bt) of the transformed color (Ct); and

a color scaling unit (109), arranged to multiplying a color representation of the transformed color (Ct) with the scaling factor (f) to obtain an output color (Co).

6. A device (100) for color correction in a luminance direction as claimed in claim 5, in which the scaling factor determination unit (107) is arranged to determine the scaling factor (f) as the maximal one of the display driving values of the first display driving value representation (Rs,Gs,Bs) divided by the maximal one of the display driving values of the second display driving value representation (Rt,Gt,Bt).

7. A television signal receiver (112) comprising a television signal reception unit (110) and a device (100) as claimed in claim 5.

8. A camera (301) comprising an image-capturing device (303) arranged to supply colors to a device (100) as claimed in claim 5.