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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1993
Thomas Ethan Madden, East Rochester, NY (US);
Brian E. Mittelstaedt, W. Henrietta, NY (US);
Edward Joseph Giorgianni, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method and associated apparatus for transforming the color-image signals of a color image reproduction system to an intermediary image metric, defined in terms of colorimetric properties not necessarily corresponding to the colorimetric properties associated with either the system's input or output device, such that nonlinear transformations of all the individual image-bearing signal components, each encoded in terms of the intermediary image metric, result in desirable shadow-to-highlight characteristics for all colored objects of interest.