System for distributing and controlling color reproduction at multiple sites
DCFirst Claim
1. A digital imaging system comprising:
- an input device comprising one or more sensors which capture an image to provide electrical signals responsive to light of said image;
a programmable processor linked to said one or more sensors wherein said processor enables conversion of said signals into digital image data in coordinates of a color space, said conversion comprising one or more operations which map an input gamut onto an output gamut, wherein said input gamut represents the receptive gamut of said input device and said output gamut represents the gamut of colors which digital image data produced by said conversion are capable of representing; and
storage comprising a record which preserves information useable to reverse one or more of said one or more operations, wherein data of said record is utilized in preparation of a rendering transformation enabling realization of colors by a rendering device which lie outside the gamut of color encompassed by the coordinate system representing said digital image data produced by said conversion.
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Abstract
The system provides for controlling color reproduction of input color image data in a network having nodes (or sites). The system distributes the input color image data from one of the nodes to other nodes, and provides data structures in the network. The system has means for providing color calibration data at each node characterizing output colors (colorants) of the rendering device of the node, and means for producing at each node, responsive to the color calibration data of the rendering device of the node, information for transforming the input color image data into output color image data at the rendering device of the node. The rendering device of each node renders a color reproduction responsive to the output color image data, wherein colors displayed in the reproduction at the rendering device of each node appear substantially the same within the output colors attainable by the rendering devices.
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20 Claims
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1. A digital imaging system comprising:
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an input device comprising one or more sensors which capture an image to provide electrical signals responsive to light of said image; a programmable processor linked to said one or more sensors wherein said processor enables conversion of said signals into digital image data in coordinates of a color space, said conversion comprising one or more operations which map an input gamut onto an output gamut, wherein said input gamut represents the receptive gamut of said input device and said output gamut represents the gamut of colors which digital image data produced by said conversion are capable of representing; and storage comprising a record which preserves information useable to reverse one or more of said one or more operations, wherein data of said record is utilized in preparation of a rendering transformation enabling realization of colors by a rendering device which lie outside the gamut of color encompassed by the coordinate system representing said digital image data produced by said conversion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A digital system for capturing a color image comprising:
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one or more sensors which capture an image to provide electronic pixel data responsive to light of said image; a programmable processor linked to said one or more sensors wherein said processor enables conversion of said electronic pixel data into digital image data in a three-dimensional color space and said conversion includes one or more operations which map an input gamut to an output gamut, wherein said input gamut corresponds to the receptive gamut represented by said electronic pixel data and said output gamut represents the gamut of colors which digital image data produced by said conversion are capable of representing in said three-dimensional color space and wherein the mapping by said one or more operations results in a decrease of saturation of at least colors of said input gamut which are not encompassed by said output gamut; a display and user-interface which enable a user to express preferences for color processing and to view a rendering of said digital image data responsive to said color processing; and storage for a file comprising said digital image data and a header, said header providing access to information stored in fields within said file, wherein said information is representative of a mapping of colors to adjust for illumination and to increase saturation, responsive to characteristics of the scene captured by said one or more sensors and in accordance with said preferences for color processing and wherein at least part of said information is communicated to an external computer system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program comprising:
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a file comprising tagged elements, wherein at least one of said tagged elements provides information defining a chromatic adaptation transform that enables a multi-dimensional transformation from input colors in device-independent units to output colors in device-independent units, said output colors being representative of different viewing conditions; a gamut descriptor data structure whose inputs comprise coordinates related to hue and lightness of colors and whose outputs are related to the saturation of at least surface colors of the gamuts for said input coordinates; and a program that reads descriptors of input and output gamuts and prepares a mapping from input to output by compression or expansion in accordance with at least a comparison of said outputs related to the saturation of at least surface colors of said input and said output gamuts. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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