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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color transformation method with which color correction can be efficiently applied to images. SOLUTION: A color transformation method comprises: for each of a plurality of color separations of a digital image: (a) establishing a tone reproduction curve in the form of a vector, the vector being a function of a plurality of basis vectors, which accounts for colorant interactions between a primary colorant with which the color separation is to be rendered and at least one secondary colorant with which at least a second of the plurality of color separations is to be rendered, the vector including modified input values corresponding to input values for the color separation which vary, depending on the input values of at least the second color separation; and (b) for a pixel of interest in the digital image having a given input value for the color separation and a given input value for at least the second color separation, identifying, from the vector, a modified input value for the color separation which corresponds to the input value of the color separation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an enhanced color print and display method and system. SOLUTION: A color output device is generally driven by at least three independent control signals for control of its response. A desired response in device independent color space is normally obtained by employing a cascade consisting of a characterization transform and calibration transform. The calibration transform transforms input control variables into output control variables that are directly used to drive the device. Input control variables can be transformed into intermediate control variables, which can be then mapped to output control variables utilizing a two-dimensional transformation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for deciding the colorimetry of an image applied when the colorimetry of the image or a formation device thereof is unknown and to provide a color image processor. SOLUTION: This method 300 for automatically detecting the colorimetry in a CMYK image file includes the calculation of discriminating amounts based on the relationship, saturation 410 and luminance 420 of color materials. A rough statistical calculation such as the mean value or standard deviation of the discriminating amount is used for drawing a set of a known image colorimetry classification. At least one classification algorithm is used for assigning a known colorimetry classification to an image of unknown colorimetry 330. This color image processor 1000 operating so as to automatically detect image colorimetry has a training image analyzer 1010, a colorimetry detector 1020 and a classification associator 1030.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for creating a fluorescence mark indicator such as a fluorescent watermark which can be acquired without physically correcting a printing device and without using any special material and medium. SOLUTION: A method for creating a fluorescence mark indicator includes selecting a desired colorant combination from within an available color gamut, deriving a first dot design pattern 31 to provide the desired colorant combination, and deriving a second dot design pattern 30 to provide a colorant combination desirable for printing. The first dot design is comprised of substantially non-overlapping primary colorants to provide a high paper coverage and thereby having a property of high suppression of substrate fluorescence. The second dot design is comprised of primary colorants to provide a low paper coverage while having substantially similar average color appearance as the first dot design under normal light, and thus having a property of low suppression of substrate fluorescence. The resultant printed image suitably exposed to an ultra-violet light source, yields a discernible pattern evident as a fluorescent mark ○. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mark indicator such as a fluorescent openmark capable of being acquired without physically modifying a printing device and using special material and medium. SOLUTION: The fluorescent mark indicator comprises a substrate (paper) containing optical brightener, a first dot design 31 for to be filled with a first pattern, and a second dot design 30 located tightly adjacent to the first pattern to be filled with a complementary pattern printed as an image on the substrate. The first dot design is formed with non-overlapped primary coloring agent which gives a high paper coverage, and has high substrate fluorescence suppressing property. The second dot design is formed with primary coloring agent arranged to produce a relatively low paper coverage, and has an average colored appearance substantially similar to the first dot design under normal light and low substrate fluorescence suppressing property. A printed image exposed to a ultraviolet light source produces an identifiable pattern as a fluorescent mark O. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for providing a watermark (hidden information) in an image using extended colorant sets. SOLUTION: The extended colorant set for watermarking is used when supporting a plurality of colorant recipes for rendering a given color. As watermark data to be encoded in the image change state with image position, alternate colorant recipes or colorant selection functions are selected. The image is rendered (displayed) based on the alternate colorant recipe selections. Watermark information is encoded in the colorant recipe or colorant selection function selection. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color gamut mapping system in which luminance compression varies across different parts of an image. SOLUTION: The color gamut mapping system includes: an image processing module for transforming an input image into a luminance component L in and chrominance components, C 1 and C 2 ; a spatial low pass filter, responsive to L in for outputting a filtered luminance component L f ; and a luminance compression module responsive to L f and L in for outputting a compressed luminance signal L out that is within the achievable luminance range of an output device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:提供其中亮度压缩在图像的不同部分上变化的色域映射系统。 色域映射系统包括:图像处理模块,用于将输入图像变换为 SB>中的亮度分量L 和色度分量C 1 SB>和C < SB> 2 SB>; 响应于 SB>中的L 输出滤波亮度分量L f SB>的空间低通滤波器; 以及响应于 SB>中的L F SB>和L 的亮度压缩模块,用于输出在可实现的亮度范围内的压缩亮度信号L out SB> 输出设备。 版权所有(C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically determine a color space of an input image as to whether a 3-channel color image is in a device dependent color space such as RGB or a luminance-chrominance color space. SOLUTION: A method for determining whether an input image is defined in accordance with a luminance-chrominance color space, includes an input apparatus for receiving an input image in three dimensional color space, S 1, S 2 and S 3, where S 1 is an image value in the first dimension, S 2 is an image value in the second dimension and S 3 is an image value in the third dimension; and a processor for extracting low and high extrema of S 1 values in the image in response to the received input image, obtaining deviation of S 2 and S 3 from a predefined neutral axis for all pixels in the image whose S 1 value is either the low or the high extremum, testing a condition that certain of the deviations are within predetermined thresholds, and determining, if the condition holds true, that the image is in a luminance-chrominance color space. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform color conversion from a 1st color space to a 2nd color space. SOLUTION: A pixel value represented in a starting color space is received in a processor and also represented as a function of the pixel value and intermediate-point interpolation in a previously defined look-up table in a final color space, and the converted pixel value is specified to generate the converted pixel value in the final color space through an output device. A system is equipped with a means for specifying a specified color value in the 1st color space, a processor which receives the color space value representing a color predetermined as a function of the specified color value and intermediate-point interpolation as the converted color space value from a look-up table specified by the final color space, a memory device which stores the converted color space value, and an output device for generating the converted color space value and generates the specified color in the final color space.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To edit a transformation table to be used for transforming a color value between different color spaces. SOLUTION: An image is received in a first color space, and a first image output and a second image output related with the image following a transform function are respectively generated in the first and third color spaces, and the second output part corresponding to the first output part including a color to be corrected is selected through a graphical user interface, and the quantity necessary for correcting the color is designated, and a monotone correction function is decided according to the necessary quantity, and a transformation table is edited according to the monotone correction function.