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Color correction device

US6097501A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 12, 1996
Grant dateAug 1, 2000
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Expiry dateJul 12, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/62
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A color correcting device for applying a color correction to an image data made up of color components of three primary colors and read by a color image reader means, the device includes: an image data extractor for extracting an image data of a predetermined color to be corrected based on a density balance of the respective color components of three primary colors, and a corrector for correcting a density level of a specified color component set in advance in correspondence with the color to be corrected, out of the color components of the extracted image data, to a predetermined density level.

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