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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2004
Karin Topfer, Rochester, NY (US);
Thomas B. Brust, Webster, NY (US);
Brent Keller, Rochester, NY (US);
Elaine W. Jin, Webster, NY (US);
Karin Topfer, Rochester, NY (US);
Thomas B. Brust, Webster, NY (US);
Brent Keller, Rochester, NY (US);
Elaine W. Jin, Webster, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
In a method and system for processing a photographic image having lightness values, L*, representing one of the colorimetric values of an original scene, the photographic image is transformed. The transformed image has a gamma as a function of CIE 1976 L*, which includes a dark region having a rising slope, a light region having a falling slope, and a plateau region having a slope constantly within 5 percent of a maximum value in said plateau region. The rising slope is at least twice as large as the absolute value of the falling slope. The plateau region is between 10 L* and 30 L* wide. Gamma is a derivative of visually perceived reproduced CIE 1976 L* versus scene CIE 1976 L*. Gamma has a maximum slope between 1.5 and 2.0.