Using a set of residual images to represent an extended color gamut digital image

• US 6,282,313 B1
• Filed: 09/28/1998
• Issued: 08/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Spaulding, Kevin E., McCarthy, Ann L., Giorgianni, Edward J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancuso, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bayat, Ali
• Application Number:
  US09/162,205
• Time in Patent Office: 1,065 Days
• Field of Search: 382/162-167, 382/240, 358/504-520, 358/523, 358/518, 358/1.9, 358/517, 348/431.1, 348/434.1, 345/153, 345/155
• US Class Current: 382/162
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77

Abstract

A method for representing a digital image having color values with an extended color gamut in a storage color space having a limited color gamut includes adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image; representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space; determining a set of residual images representing a difference between the extended color gamut digital image and the limited color gamut digital image; and associating the set of residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.

Claims

1. A method for representing a digital image with an extended color gamut in a storage color space having a limited color gamut comprising:

a) adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image;

b) representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space;

c) determining differences between the extended color gamut digital image and the limited color gamut digital image forming a set of residual images; and

d) storing the set of residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated set of residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.

2. The method of claim 1 where the storage color space is a particular device dependent color space.

3. The method of claim 2 where the storage color space is a video RGB color space.

4. The method of claim 3 further including previewing the digital image by displaying the limited color gamut digital image on a video display.

5. The method of claim 1 where the storage color space is a particular limited color gamut color space.

6. The method of claim 1 where the limited color gamut digital image is determined by clipping colors that are outside the limited color gamut so that they are on the surface of the limited color gamut.

7. The method of claim 1 where the limited color gamut digital image is determined by using gamut mapping that preserves color appearance.

8. The method of claim 1 where the limited color gamut digital image is determined by modifying color values that are outside the limited color gamut so that they are mapped to color values within the limited color gamut.

9. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image has a larger range of chroma values than the limited color gamut digital image.

10. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image has a larger dynamic range than the limited color gamut digital image.

11. The method of claim 10 where the adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to determine the limited color gamut digital image includes applying a tonescale function to reduce the dynamic range of the image.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the extended dynamic range digital image is a monochrome digital image.

13. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image is a representation of the colors in an original scene.

14. The method of claim 13 where the limited color gamut digital image is determined by rendering the colors of the original scene to produce rendered color values that are desirable for a first output device.

15. The method of claim 14 where the set of residual images is determined by computing the difference between the rendered color values for the first output device and a second set of rendered color values that are desirable for a second output device having a larger color gamut than the first output device.

16. The method of claim 15 where the larger color gamut output device is a hypothetical output device having an idealized color gamut.

17. The method of claim 1 where the limited color gamut digital image is stored in a digital image file using a digital storage medium.

18. The method of claim 17 where the set of residual images is stored as additional data in the digital image file.

19. The method of claim 17 where a data compression technique is applied to the set of residual images before it is stored so that it uses a smaller amount of digital storage memory.

20. The method of claim 17 where the limited color gamut digital image is stored in the digital image file, and the residual image is stored in a separate digital image file.

21. The method of claim 1 further including using one or more residual images from the set of residual images together with the limited color gamut digital image to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.

22. The method of claim 1 further including using one or more residual images from the set of residual images together with the limited color gamut digital image to form a digital image appropriate for display on an output device having a color gamut different that the limited color gamut.

23. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image originates from a scan of a photographic negative.

24. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image originates from a scan of a photographic transparency.

25. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image originates from a scan of a photographic print.

26. The method of claim 1 where the extended color gamut digital image originates from a digital camera.

27. The method of claim 26 where each residual image in the set of residual images corresponds to a successively larger subset of the extended color gamut.

28. The method of claim 1 where the set of residual images includes a luminance residual image and one or more chrominance residual images.

29. The method of claim 28 where each residual image in the set of residual images is computed from the difference between two intermediate color gamut digital images.

30. The method of claim 29 where the subsets of image pixels are formed by partitioning the extended color gamut digital image into tiles.

31. The method of claim 30 where the desirable modification is interactively user specified.

32. The method of claim 30 where the desirable modification is determined by applying an automatic algorithm to the digital image.

33. The method of claim 1 where each residual image in the set of residual images corresponds to a different subset of the extended color gamut.

34. The method of claim 33 where the intermediate color gamut digital images are determined by using a set of tonescale functions to reduce the extended color gamut dynamic range to a set of intermediate color gamut dynamic ranges.

35. The method of claim 1 where each residual image in the set of residual images corresponds to a subset of image pixels in the extended color gamut digital image.

36. The method of claim 1 where the set of residual images is determined from the extended color gamut digital image represented in an extended storage color space and the limited color gamut digital image represented in the storage color space.

37. A method for representing and manipulating a digital image with an extended color gamut using a storage color space having a limited color gamut comprising:

a) adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image;

b) representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space;

c) determining differences between the extended color gamut digital image and the limited color gamut digital image forming a set of residual images;

d) storing the set of residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated set of residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image;

e) specifying a desirable modification to the image; and

f) using the set of residual images together with the limited color gamut digital image and the specified desirable modification to the image to produce a modified digital image.

38. A method for representing a digital image having color values with an extended color gamut in a storage color space having a limited color gamut comprising:

a) adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image;

b) representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space;

c) compressing the limited color gamut digital image;

d) determining a difference between the extended color gamut digital image and an uncompressed limited color gamut digital image computed from the compressed limited color gamut digital image forming a set of residual images; and

e) storing the set of residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.

39. A computer program product for representing a digital image with an extended color gamut in a storage color space having a limited color gamut, and having a computer readable storage medium with a computer program stored thereon for performing:

a) adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image;

b) representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space;

c) determining differences between the extended color gamut digital image and the limited color gamut digital image forming a set of residual images; and

d) storing the residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.

40. A computer program product for representing a digital image with an extended color gamut in a storage color space having a limited color gamut, and having a computer readable storage medium with a computer program stored thereon for performing:

a) adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image;

b) representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space;

c) determining differences between the extended color gamut digital image and the limited color gamut digital image forming a set of residual images;

d) storing the set of residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated set of residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image;

e) specifying a desirable modification to the image; and

f) using the set of residual images together with the limited color gamut digital image and the specified desirable modification to the image to produce a modified digital image.

41. A computer program product for representing a digital image with an extended color gamut in a storage color space having a limited color gamut, and having a computer readable storage medium with a computer program stored thereon for performing:

a) adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut to form a limited color gamut digital image;

b) representing the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space;

c) compressing the limited color gamut digital image;

d) determining differences between the extended color gamut digital image and an uncompressed limited color gamut digital image computed from the compressed limited color gamut digital image forming a set of residual images; and

e) storing the residual images with the limited color gamut digital image in the storage color space such that the associated residual images and the limited color gamut digital image is adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.