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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2002
Applicant:
Richard A. Sharman, Dunstable, GB;
Inventor:
Richard A. Sharman, Dunstable, GB;
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of processing data from a digital image to optimize the tonescale to a printer being used without operator intervention adjusts the gain and offset of the input image data to occupy the full range of the printer, adjusts the shadow and highlight regions of the input image data to move that data distribution to that expected of the printer and then uses a gamma correction stage to move the mean level of the image data toward that expected for the printer.