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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1993
Filed:
May. 16, 1991
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A color value correction apparatus for converting each of successive combinations of input tricolor digital values into an output color value in accordance with predetermined data stored in memory, includes three table memories which store values which are respective differences between color values corresponding to vertices of unit tetrahedra in a color space and a reference color value that is common to all of a set of tetrahedra forming one of an array of unit cubes or parallelepipeds which constitute that color space, and also includes a table memory that stores these reference color values. To obtain an interpolated output value, each of these memories is addressed three-dimensionally by the high-order bits of an input tricolor value combination to thereby specify one of the unit cubes or parallelepipeds, and the difference value memories are in addition addressed by a value, derived from the low-order bits of the input value combination, specifying a specific tetrahedron containing the interpolation point. An interpolated output value can thereby be obtained by executing only three multiplication operations followed by addition operations.