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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2007
James Zhixin Chang, Vancouver, WA (US);
John C. Dalrymple, Portland, OR (US);
James Zhixin Chang, Vancouver, WA (US);
John C. Dalrymple, Portland, OR (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for limiting total colorant in a color rendering system are disclosed. Implementation of the present invention provides for transformation of a specified colorant in which the sum of the colorant components exceeds a total area coverage (TAC) limit to create a second or resultant colorant in which the sum of the colorant components is within the limit. Using a bijective transformation, colorant sampling and other manipulations can be performed using a nominal hypercube space and the results can be compressed from the nominal space back to the actual colorant-limited space, simplifying manipulation of the colorant-limited polytope space. The unlimited colorant hypercube may be divided into simplexes. For each simplex, intersection points may be found between the TAC limit and the edges of the simplex. A barycentric interpolation technique may then be used to map the unlimited simplex onto a corresponding simplex within the colorant-limited polytope.