Color correction of a compressed image
First Claim
1. A method for color correcting a compressed digital image in the form of a digital document comprising at least one compressed unit, said method comprising the steps of:
- retrieving from memory a compressed unit of digital image data;
partially decompressing the retrieved compressed unit to produce a partially decompressed image representing the color of a region of the digital image in a first color space;
performing color correction on the partially decompressed unit, to produce a corrected unit in the first color space, by mapping at least a first color of the region in the first color space to a corresponding second color in the first color space using an interpolation process to complete the color correction transformation;
subsequently partially decompressing the corrected unit to produce decompressed, corrected image data having the form of a device dependent color space;
integrating said partially decompressed device dependent image data with the remaining compressed data before completely decompressing this result to form a fully decompressed data block; and
performing a second phase color correction to convert said fully decompressed data block into device dependent signals.
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Abstract
The present invention is a method for the color correction of digital images that have been compressed. In a preferred embodiment, aspects of the color correction are carried out on the compressed image data to improve computational efficiency. One of a number of alternative methods is employed to accomplish the color correction on lossy or losslessly compressed images. The color transformation process accomplishes color correction on compressed image data in conjunction with compression or decompression operations. A second, simplified phase of the color correction may be applied subsequently to the decompressed image data in certain embodiments. Accordingly, the technique has application to any number of color imaging systems, including digital printers and copiers where there is a necessity to color correct compressed digital images
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13 Claims
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1. A method for color correcting a compressed digital image in the form of a digital document comprising at least one compressed unit, said method comprising the steps of:
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retrieving from memory a compressed unit of digital image data; partially decompressing the retrieved compressed unit to produce a partially decompressed image representing the color of a region of the digital image in a first color space; performing color correction on the partially decompressed unit, to produce a corrected unit in the first color space, by mapping at least a first color of the region in the first color space to a corresponding second color in the first color space using an interpolation process to complete the color correction transformation; subsequently partially decompressing the corrected unit to produce decompressed, corrected image data having the form of a device dependent color space; integrating said partially decompressed device dependent image data with the remaining compressed data before completely decompressing this result to form a fully decompressed data block; and performing a second phase color correction to convert said fully decompressed data block into device dependent signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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