Method for processing color image and apparatus therefor

Abstract

Abstract A color image processing apparatus for converting original image data in the input system into required copy image data based on a lookup table. The apparatus has a memory for storing corrective functions used for the formation of the lookup table, a command generator for generating a command signal for starting the formation of the lookup table and table forming system for calling the corrective functions from the memory each time the command signal is generated from the command generator and for forming the lookup table based on the corrective functions. For faithful reproduction of the color image of an original image on a copy image, white points and the achromatic axes of the original image conform with those of the copy image and, at the same time, the ranges of color reproduction of the original image conform with the copy image. The white point, achromatic axis, and range of color reproduction of a color image exhibited as an original image on a color CRT display and those of a color image printed out as a copy image on an image forming device such as an ink jet printer, for example, are allowed to conform with each other.

Inventors

• 👤 Tetsuya C/O Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha Iida

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