Color printer calibration with improved color mapping linearity
US5471324A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 5, 1994 |
| Grant date | Nov 28, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 5, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/6033
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a color printer calibration process, a color printer is driven with a set of printer signals selected to print a set of color samples throughout a printer gamut. A color measuring device measures the colorimetric response at each sample, to derive a mapping of printer signals to colorimetric responses of the printer. From the colorimetric responses, a preprocessing step is used to increase the number of measurements, using linear interpolation between local responses whereby the number of colorimetric responses to be mapped is increased. Then, a lookup table mapping colorimetric values to printer signals is generated, at regular intervals throughout the printer gamut, to produce a regular interval set of interpolated colorimetric values, derived from the measured colorimetric values and the linearly interpolated values using a distance-weighted averaging method. The look up table is stored in a color conversion memory for use in converting color definitions from a first color space to the printer color space.
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