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Method of processing color image
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1986-06-10
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Granted: 1988-07-19
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Expires: 2006-06-10
Abstract
Abstract A color image processing method and apparatus whereby a color image signal of an input system having a wide color reproducing range with respect to the brightness and saturation, such as an apparatus for producing a color television signal, is converted into a color image signal of an output system having a narrow color reproducing range, such as an ink jet color printer. With this method, a plurality of color points out of the color reproducing range of the output system are compressed and mapped to a plurality of color points in this range, respectively, with the hue held constant on the basis of a white point on the chromaticity diagram as a standard. In the compressing and mapping processes, the brightness is first compressed and the saturation is then compressed. In this manner, by compressing and mapping each point in the color unreproducible range of the output system to a point in the color reproducible range, a high quality color image can be derived.
Inventors
- 👤 Takashi Sasaki
- 👤 Yoshiro Udagawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 09:16
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/46; H04N1/56; H04N1/60; H04N1/6058
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
140 words
A method of processing a color image, wherein in the case where a color reproducing range of an output system differs from that of an input system, said method comprising the steps of: extracting, from a color component signal input through said input system, a brightness signal representing brightness, a hue signal representing hue and a saturation signal representing saturation; first compressing the brightness signal within a brightness reproducible range of said output system; second compressing, after said first compressing step, the saturation signal within a saturation reproducible range of said output system; obtaining a plurality of primary color signals on the basis of the compressed brightness signal compressed in the first compressing step, the compressed saturation signal compressed in the second compressing step, and the hue signal; and supplying the plurality of primary color signals to said output system.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
140 words
A method of processing a color image, wherein in the case where a color reproducing range of an output system differs from that of an input system, said method comprising the steps of: extracting, from a color component signal input through said input system, a brightness signal representing brightness, a hue signal representing hue and a saturation signal representing saturation; first compressing the brightness signal within a brightness reproducible range of said output system; second compressing, after said first compressing step, the saturation signal within a saturation reproducible range of said output system; obtaining a plurality of primary color signals on the basis of the compressed brightness signal compressed in the first compressing step, the compressed saturation signal compressed in the second compressing step, and the hue signal; and supplying the plurality of primary color signals to said output system.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
A color image processing method according to claim 1, wherein in said first and second compressing steps, the compressing processes are executed using a white point on a chromaticity diagram as a standard.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
A color image processing method according to claim 1, wherein said input system is a device for generating a color television signal and said output system is a color printer.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
A color image processing method according to claim 3, wherein said color printer is an ink jet color printer.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
92 words
A color image processing method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of: obtaining a relation between the color component signal and the primary color signal through said extracting step, said first compressing step, said second compressing step and said primary color signal obtaining step; storing said relation between the color component signal and the primary color signal in a memory; and performing color image processing by said memory in which the color component signal is used as an input address and the primary color signals are produced as output data.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
153 words
A color image processing apparatus in which a color reproducing range of an output system differs from that of an input system, comprising: input means for inputting a color component signal supplied from said input system; brightness compression means for compressing a brightness portion of the color component signal to produce a brightness compressed color component signal, in accordance with a brightness range of the input color component signal and a brightness reproducible range of said output system; saturation compression means for compressing a saturation portion of the brightness compressed color component signal obtained by said brightness compression means to produce a brightness and saturation compressed color component signal, in accordance with a saturation range of the input color component signal and a saturation reproducible range of said output system; and supply means for supplying the brightness and saturation compressed color component signal obtained by said saturation comprssion means to said output system.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
153 words
A color image processing apparatus in which a color reproducing range of an output system differs from that of an input system, comprising: input means for inputting a color component signal supplied from said input system; brightness compression means for compressing a brightness portion of the color component signal to produce a brightness compressed color component signal, in accordance with a brightness range of the input color component signal and a brightness reproducible range of said output system; saturation compression means for compressing a saturation portion of the brightness compressed color component signal obtained by said brightness compression means to produce a brightness and saturation compressed color component signal, in accordance with a saturation range of the input color component signal and a saturation reproducible range of said output system; and supply means for supplying the brightness and saturation compressed color component signal obtained by said saturation comprssion means to said output system.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
22 words
A color image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said input system includes an apparatus which generates a color television signal.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
17 words
A color image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said output system includes a color printer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
53 words
A color image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said brightness compression means and said saturation compression means include a table memory in which a color digital value corresponding to the input color component signal is used as an address and in which compressed data is generated as an output digital value.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
99 words
A method of processing a color image, in the case where a color reproducing range of an output system differs from that of an input system, comprising the steps of: providing a digital color signal corresponding to a color component signal from said input system; first compressing the brightness of the digital color signal; second compressing, after said first compressing step, the saturation of the digital color signal; and executing said first and second compressing steps by memory means in which the digital color signal is used as an input address and compressed data is produced as output data.
Claim 13
Independent Claim
99 words
A method of processing a color image, in the case where a color reproducing range of an output system differs from that of an input system, comprising the steps of: providing a digital color signal corresponding to a color component signal from said input system; first compressing the brightness of the digital color signal; second compressing, after said first compressing step, the saturation of the digital color signal; and executing said first and second compressing steps by memory means in which the digital color signal is used as an input address and compressed data is produced as output data.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
56 words
A method of processing a color image according to claim 10, wherein said memory means comprises a single memory member for said first and second compressing steps, and in said memory means the digital color signal is used as an input address and the data compressed in said second compressing step is used as output data.
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