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Color transforming method
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1998-04-20
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Granted: 2000-11-21
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Expires: 2018-04-20
Abstract
Abstract The improved color transforming method of the invention comprises the steps of: performing calorimetric conversion on the image data obtained from an input medium to produce calorimetric data on the image to be reproduced; and analyzing the resulting calorimetric data to determine automatically a format for compressing the input space of said image to the output space. The color transforming method of the invention performs analysis of the image to be reproduced so that only the areas of the image that need be subjected to compression of a color gamut can be compressed, and thereby achieves optimal color gamut compression in an image-dependent manner with minimum sacrifice in the fidelity of calorimetric reproduction.
Inventors
- 👤 Fumito Takemoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 12:01
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/46; H04N1/56; H04N1/60; H04N1/6058
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
105 words
A color transforming method comprising the steps of: performing calorimetric conversion on image data obtained from an input medium to produce calorimetric data on an image to be reproduced; creating rough data from a portion of the converted calorimetric data by extracting image data from all the image data of said image, and averaging the extracted image data for spatially throwing out a portion of the input image data; and analyzing the rough data to determine automatically a format for compressing an input space of said image to an output space, wherein said analyzing step determines a portion of a color space to be compressed.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
105 words
A color transforming method comprising the steps of: performing calorimetric conversion on image data obtained from an input medium to produce calorimetric data on an image to be reproduced; creating rough data from a portion of the converted calorimetric data by extracting image data from all the image data of said image, and averaging the extracted image data for spatially throwing out a portion of the input image data; and analyzing the rough data to determine automatically a format for compressing an input space of said image to an output space, wherein said analyzing step determines a portion of a color space to be compressed.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
The color transforming method according to claim 1, wherein a degree of compression is varied depending upon a size of the image to be outputted.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
The color transforming method according to claim 1, wherein said color space to be compressed and a degree of compression are first determined and then said color space to be compressed is compressed in a manner dependent on the determined degree of compression.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
42 words
The color transforming method according to claim 3, wherein said color space to be compressed and the degree of compression are determined from hue, lightness and chroma histograms of pixels located outside a color gamut to be reproduced by an output medium.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
54 words
The color transforming method according to claim 1, wherein the compression of the portion of said color space to be compressed is performed by compressing the chroma in proportion to a degree of compression and the lightness in a manner dependent on said degree of compression, lightness and chroma while keeping the hue constant.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
64 words
The color transforming method according to claim 1, wherein the compression of the portion of said color space to be compressed is performed by compressing the chroma in proportion to a degree of compression and the lightness in a manner dependent on said degree of compression, lightness and chroma as the hue is varied to that of the coloring material in the output medium.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
The color transforming method according to claim 1, wherein said rough data on the image is obtained from as-set up image data.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
48 words
The color transforming method according to claim 1, wherein said pixels located outside the color gamut to be reproduced by the output medium are identified by means of a conversion table at the output end that converts the calorimetric data to image data dependent on the output medium.
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