Scitex Inc.

Itai Yad-Shalom

Haim Zvi Melman

Haim Kreitman

Yoav Bresler

Isak Duenyas

Zeev Smilansky

Matty J Litvak

There is disclosed technique and apparatus for calibrating a color processing device. The technique includes the steps of comparing a first digital representation of a colored image with a second digital representation thereof and employing at least the transformation to control operation of the color processing device to be calibrated. The first digital representation defines a plurality of first non-scalar color values and the second digital representation defines a plurality of second non-scalar color values corresponding to the plurality of the first non-scalar color values, thereby to provide a transformation pairing each individual one of the first non-scalar color values with a value relatively close to the corresponding one of the second non-scalar color values. The color processing device may be calibrated generally without reference to human aesthetic judgement. There is additionally provided a method and apparatus For transforming an element off a domain of a first color printing device to an element of a domain of a second color printing device. The method comprises the steps of providing a first transformation from a first digital representation of a colored image to a second digital representation thereof and a second transformation from a third digital representation of a colored image to a fourth digital representation thereof and comparing the first transformation with the second transformation. The second transformation corresponds to the second color printing device, the first transformation corresponds to the first color printing device and the second and fourth digital representations are defined within a single color space.

Apparatus and method for color calibration

A method and apparatus for preparing a mask of an area of interest in a picture to be separated from the remainder of the picture. Data defining a rectangular section of the area of interest enclosing an edge of the picture is inputted into a data processor by specifying the distance between two spaced parallel lines determining the width of the rectangular section, and specifying the starting point and ending point of the rectangular section determining the length of the rectangular section. The inputted data is processed to digitize the edge of the picture enclosed within the rectangular section. The above steps are repeated for the remaining sections of the area of interest to digitize the complete edge of the picture within the remaining sections of the area of interest.

Method and apparatus for preparing picture masks and for digitizing line

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Itai Yad-Shalom