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Coordinating color produced by two devices--using a hue-controlled machine color space, or surface scaling

  • US 5,883,632 A
  • Filed: 05/03/1994
  • Issued: 03/16/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for presentation of a color image in a form viewable as a color image, using a color-image presentation device;

  • said method comprising the steps of;

    interpreting first relative-position values of color parameters, within and throughout a first color element of at least two dimensions, as also being the same relative-position values of corresponding color parameters within a second color element of the same number of dimensions, with no intermediate color space other than normalized forms recited herebelow;

    said first color element having a portion that is not contained within the second color element, and the second color element having a portion that is not contained within the first color element;

    said interpreting step comprising the substeps of;

    finding normalized forms of said first color-parameter values, normalized with respect to the two dimensions of the first color element, andwhile treating the normalized forms of said first color-parameter values as also normalized relative-position values with respect to two dimensions of the second color element, reversing the normalization with respect to the second color element to determine unnormalized values within the second color element;

    using said unnormalized values within the second color element to derive signals for controlling the color-image presentation device; and

    then applying the signals to operate the color-image presentation device for presentation of the color image in said viewable form; and

    wherein;

    said first and second color elements are color surfaces;

    the first and second color elements have respective shapes;

    the interpreting and using steps comprise using simplified, geometrically more-regular approximations to the respective shapes of the first and second color elements;

    said surfaces are hue pages; and

    the approximation-using step comprises finding vertex coordinates for straight-line-bounded figures representing respective simplified shapes of the first and second color elements.

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