WO2001017233A9 - Visually error-free color image representation - Google Patents
Visually error-free color image representationInfo
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- the present invention relates to colorspace interchange and more particularly, to providing substantially visually error- free color data interchange for a plurality of electronic devices.
- Different phosphor sets are being used to provide the colors of "red”, “green”, and “blue". For example, where a monitor may illustrate a pink color, and the user selects the pink color, the printer printing the selection may print out an ugly purple/lavender. Thus, different values on chromaticity diagrams represent a same color, providing confusion. Tone reproduction of various systems also differ. Also, viewing conditions may vary, causing colors to appear different to different observers. Thus, due to differing visual conditions, the color of the illuminant (the white point), the absolute level of the scene irradiance (generally the illuminance), the surrounding colors, etc., all affect the color perception unless the initial and final conditions are identical.
- the chromaticity diagram has been developed by the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE), or International Commission on Illumination, to provide a common chromaticity value for colors.
- CIE Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage
- the displayable colors by a laser device are shown as a triangle ABC, with points A 102, B 104, and C 106.
- color values for a device should cover a triangle having an area that extends over the entire visible range.
- the triangle covered for color values of a Canon CLC500 color copier/printer 202 is shown along with the old RGB color values (Genl. RGB) 204, the first PC color monitors and the sRGB values 206.
- Cathode display tubes CRTs
- color flat panels both active and passive matrix types
- HDTVs high definition televisions
- sRGB chromaticity diagrams lacks a range of gamut that includes all colors, and conversion of sRGB color data values is non-linear, thus often resulting in undesired results.
- color management technology is needed to facilitate color data interchange in the marketplace so that color devices may conveniently exchange color data in a common format without the need to translate constantly between color spaces because of different data representations in various devices.
- the present invention provides complete color representation for substantially the entire visual gamut and represents all colors substantially without visual error. That is, representation of substantially all visible colors typically perceived by the human eye is defined herein as representation of the colors "without visual error'Or “visually error free”, including representing visually perceptible data values.
- the present invention provides an apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for converting digital signals for a color image into high quality error-free expanded colorspace color images.
- a normalized RGB colorspace is defined for color values from 0 to 1.
- An expanded RGB/RGBA or expanded sRGB/sRGBA colorspace is defined herein to include color values below 0 and/or greater than 1.
- the method includes obtaining color values; mapping the color values to one of: an expanded RGB/RGBA or an expanded sRGB/sRGBA space; and labeling an image determined by mapped color values as an expanded RGB/RGBA or expanded sRGB/sRGBA colorspace image.
- the expanded RGB/RGBA or sRGB/SRGBA space may include at least the visible range of color values.
- the expanded RGB/RGBA or sRGB/SRGBA space may be described as a colorspace defined by a chromaticity diagram that extends into negative component values and beyond 1.0 when normalized to 1.0 in RGB or sRGB, respectively.
- RGB/RGBA is defined to be interchangeable with the terms “RGB/ARGB” or “RGB/RGB(A)”. That is, there is no distinction between the recited terms, and no specific ordering of elements is indicated by the terminology.
- Mapping the color values to an expanded RGB/RGBA or expanded sRGB/sRGBA space may include utilizing multiplication of Ro,Go,Bo values by a predetermined matrix, where the Ro,Go,and Bo values denote normalized red, green and blue components for a color value.
- the Ro,Go,Bo values may be predetermined based on X, Y and Z values, where X, Y, and Z denote 1931 CIE XYZ values whose Y value has been normalized to 1.
- the Ro,Go,and Bo values denote normalized red, green and blue components for a color value
- the Ro,Go,and Bo values may simply be multiplied by 8192 to obtain the 16 bit components R ⁇ 6 , G ⁇ 6 , andBi6.
- color data values may be non-premultiplied, premultiphed, or normalized premultiphed.
- a method for providing high quality error- free conversion of color images from measured color values includes the steps of: mapping the color values to an expanded colorspace wherein the expanded colorspace includes values beyond a visible range of color values and labeling an image determined by the color values mapped to the expanded colorspace as an expanded colorspace image.
- the apparatus includes an expanded colorspace mapper and an image labeller.
- the expanded colorspace mapper is used for mapping the digital signals to expanded colorspace values wherein the expanded colorspace values include values beyond a visible range of color values.
- the image labeller is coupled to the expanded colorspace mapper and is used for labeling an image determined by expanded colorspace values as an expanded colorspace image. The apparatus may be adjusted further in accordance with the description above.
- Figure 1 is a schematic graphical representation of a laser display colorspace upon a CIE colorspace that shows the full gamut of the visual spectrum as is known in the art.
- Figure 2 is a schematic graphical representation of colorspaces for a representative Canon CLC500 color copier/printer, General RGB color values, and sRGB values upon a CIE colorspace diagram as is known in the art.
- Figure 3 is a schematic graphical representation of one embodiment of a colorspace in accordance with the present invention.
- Figure 4 is a flow chart showing steps in accordance with one embodiment of the method and a computer-readable medium for implementing the present invention.
- Figure 5 is a flow chart showing steps in accordance with another embodiment of the method and a computer-readable medium for implementing the present invention.
- Figure 6 is a block diagram of one embodiment of an apparatus in a digitized image processing system for converting color images in accordance with the present invention.
- Figure 7 is a block diagram of a computer system that may be used to implement the method of the present invention.
- Figure 8 is a flow chart showing one embodiment of steps of a method of representing color in images using color data values for an expanded colorspace substantially without visually perceptible error in accordance with the present invention.
- Figure 9 is a flow chart show one embodiment of steps of the method of the present invention providing for representing at least one of: super transparent and super opaque colors using an alpha channel.
- color data values may be expressed in a signed 16-bit integer (13 bits are used for decimals) with a triangle corresponding to (3.24, -0.97, 0.06), (-1.54, 1.88, -0.20), and (-0.50, 0.04, 1.01), thus covering each component within -4 to 4.
- the present invention's gamut is larger than the visible color space.
- the data scheme of the present invention is also known as "sRGB64.
- XsRGB will be used hereafter to represent the color data scheme of either XsRGB or sRGB64.
- Advanced graphic systems require anti-aliasing features (removing ragged edges) and blending (translucency) effects.
- an extra component called an "alpha channel” was introduced.
- alpha channel To utilize the alpha channel, the linear color components must be expressed in terms of their intensities.
- sRGB and other color management systems typically store color data values in non-linear 8-bit values per channel. The non-linearity is expressed as a "gamma value". For example, Microsoft's and
- Apple's color management systems are 2.2 and 1.8, respectively. When only 8 bits were available for color data value representation, it was necessary to convert the color data non- linearly. creating a large gap in the lower intensity values and causing the resulting images to show contours. However, when the size of each component is extended to higher bit (12 bit or higher), the non-linearity requirement is eliminated. Thus, in an embodiment with 12 or more bits for each component, color profiles do not require clipping to a narrower gamut and component values do not have to be non-linearized, avoiding confusion of different gamma values in different color standards.
- color values are standardized
- standard images may be stored in the XsRGB format without attaching a standardized profile such as an ICC (International Color Consortium) profile to clarify the colors intended.
- an alpha channel may be implemented to store information on transparency.
- the color values may be premultiphed by alpha channel values to provide efficient blending. It is better to define XsRGB more generally by a 4x4 matrix. Also, there is a conversion rule for XsRGB with a different white point.
- XsRGB is linear in the visual intensity of each component. Hence, XsRGB can relate linearly to 1931 CIE XYZ values.
- R 0 , G 0 , and B 0 denote the normalized red, green, and
- the transitional part (t ⁇ , etc.) is used. With this notation, the white point may be addressed as
- RGB components A 16 bit definition of RGB components is given by:
- D50 and D65 are the standard illuminans (the spectrum distributions of the light source) defined by CIE.
- D50 and D65 are the spectrum distributions similar to the Black Body radiation of 5000 and 6500 Kelvin, respectively. Indeed, it is desirable for XsRGB to be identical to sRGB when its value is inside the range of sRGB. From the sRGB specification, the coefficients of Eq. (lb) and Eq. (2b) are determined as:
- the Y- value at the white point is 1.
- the CIE XYZ coordinates for the appearance match must be transformed by the
- the appearance match is obtained if the XsRGB values are calculated from the conversion matrix of the device white point.
- the absolute match may be obtained if the conversion matrix of D65 is used irrespective of the device white point.
- the appearance match and is called the appearance RGB value.
- the RGB values R 0 , G 0 ,B 0 ) are used by using the matrix M D6S defined in Eq. (3a), which is
- the absolute RGB value is obtained from the appearance RGB value by the following equation:
- the new XsRGB device may be produced by adding the matrix conversion routines to the existing colorimeters. XsRGB values may be measured directly from the device. The device may produce the appearance RGB values and the absolute RGB values.
- the above conversions correspond to clipping below 0 and above 8192 of the 16 bit XsRGB when converting to 8 bit sRGB.
- the clipping routine may be further modified as desired.
- Ci6 2.4865 x C 8 for 0 ⁇ C 8 ⁇ 10
- sRGB 8.192 x [(C 8 + 14.025)/269.025f 4 for 11 ⁇ C 8 ⁇ 255 (12)
- the extension of sRGB in accordance with the present invention provides a number of advantages. For example, blending operations with an alpha channel may be directly applied to XsRGB since XsRGB is linear.
- the XsRGB profiles may easily be obtained from the CIE XYZ profiles.
- XsRGB is used for color reference, there is no need to rotate color components to display each component in an 8 bit sRGB device. Only gamma correction described in (Eq. 12) above need be used to convert to 8 bit sRGB. Even without an exact calibration, XsRGB yields satisfactory conversion for output for color monitors.
- the scanned images may generally be stored in XsRGB format without losing bit depths since most scanners produce data in not more than 12 bits in each color component.
- the alpha channel is also utilized for transparency information
- the present invention is referenced as "XsRGB A".
- XsRGB A the additional 16 bit components are used as the alpha channel to store transparency information.
- G 0 A 0 G 0
- B 0 A 0 B 0
- the XsRGBA component A 6 , R ' , G[ 6 ,B, ' 6 is obtained. This is called the
- a 0 is considered in the following way.
- the alpha value is an interpolation/ extrapolation parameter, a may be smaller than 0 or larger than 1.
- a ⁇ 0 is defined as "super transparent” and a > 1 is defined as "super opaque.”
- colors with the super transparent or super opaque alpha value may fall within an RGB space or outside the RGB space.
- Figure 4 is a flow chart showing steps in accordance with one embodiment of the method of the present invention.
- the method provides high quality error- free conversion of color images and includes the steps of: obtaining 402 color values; mapping 404 the color values to an expanded sRGB/sRGBA space; and labeling 406 an image determined by mapped color values as an expanded sRGB/sRGBA colorspace image.
- Obtaining 402 the color values may be simply receiving input color values; alternatively, obtaining 402 color values may include measuring the color values.
- the expanded sRGB or sRGBA space typically includes at least the visible range of color values.
- the expanded sRGB or sRGBA space generally includes a colorspace defined by a chromaticity diagram that extends into negative component values and beyond 1.0 when normalized to 1.0 in sRGB.
- mapping 404 the color values to an expanded sRGB or sRGBA space may include utilizing multiplication of R' 0 , G , and B values by a
- the R' 0 , G , , and B values are obtained
- mapping may include clipping the 16 bit values below 0 and above 8192 to convert the 16 bit values to 8 bit values As described above, the color data values may be non-premultiplied, premultiphed or normalized premultiphed color data values.
- Figure 5 shows another embodiment of steps in accordance with the method of the present invention.
- the method provides high quality error-free conversion of color images from measured color values.
- the method includes the steps of: mapping 502 the color values to an expanded colorspace wherein the expanded colorspace includes values beyond a visible range of color values; and labeling 504 an image determined by the color values mapped to the expanded colorspace as an expanded colorspace image.
- the expanded colorspace may include a colorspace defined by a chromaticity diagram that extends into negative component values and beyond 1.0 when normalized to 1.0 in sRGB. Mapping the color values and obtaining the color values may be accomplished as set forth above.
- bits may be allocated as set forth above, and 16 bit components R 16 , G 16 , and R 16 of color data values may also be computed as set forth above.
- clipping, storage of transparency information and premultiplication of color data values may be achieved as discussed above.
- FIG. 6 is a block diagram of one embodiment of an apparatus in a digitized image processing system for converting color images in accordance with the present invention.
- an image digitizer 604 that utilizes color image information to output digital signals representing a color image to the apparatus 606 that converts the digital signals to a high quality error-free expanded colorspace color image.
- the apparatus 606 includes: an expanded colorspace mapper 608, for mapping the digital signals to expanded colorspace values wherein the expanded colorspace values include values beyond a visible range of color values; and an image labeller 610, coupled to the expanded colorspace mapper 608, for labeling an image determined by expanded colorspace values as an expanded colorspace image.
- the expanded colorspace may include a colorspace defined by a chromaticity diagram that extends into negative component values and beyond 1.0 when normalized to 1.0 in sRGB.
- the expanded colorspace mapper may utilize multiplication of R 0 , G 0 , B Q values by a
- color data values and their bit components, clipping, transparency information storage and premultiplication and normalization of color data values may be as described for the methods above.
- RGB/RGBA colorspace Color operations defined in the RGB/RGBA colorspace may be extended to the expanded RGB/RGBA colorspace.
- G : A x G x +( ⁇ -A x )G >
- a 2 A x A x +(l-A x )A y
- the blur equation is for each color component. Assuming a RGB color component of a pixel at location (i, j) is C(i j), the resulting RGB color component of the pixel after the blur operation is given by:
- an exemplary system for implementing the invention includes a general purpose computing device in the form of a conventional personal computer 720, including a processing unit/processor 721, a system memory 722, and a system bus 723 that couples various system components including the system memory to the processing unit/processor 721.
- the system bus 723 may be any of several types of bus structures including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, and a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.
- the system memory includes read only memory (ROM) 724 and random access memory (RAM) 725.
- ROM read only memory
- RAM random access memory
- the personal computer 720 further includes a hard disk drive 727 for reading from and writing to a hard disk, not shown, a magnetic disk drive 728 for reading from or writing to a removable magnetic disk 729, and an optical disk drive 730 for reading from or writing to a removable optical disk 731 such as a CD ROM or other optical media.
- the hard disk drive 727, magnetic disk drive 728, and optical disk drive 730 are connected to the system bus 723 by a hard disk drive interface 732, a magnetic disk drive interface 733, and an optical drive interface 734, respectively.
- the drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for the personal computer 720.
- exemplary environment described herein employs a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk 729 and a removable optical disk 731
- other types of computer readable media which can store data that is accessible by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, Bernoulli cartridges, random access memories (RAMs), read only memories (ROMs), and the like, may also be used in the exemplary operating environment.
- a number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 729, optical disk 31, ROM 724, or RAM 725, including an operating system 735, one or more application programs 736, other program modules 737 and program data 738.
- a user may enter commands and information into the personal computer 720 through input devices such as a keyboard 740 and pointing device 742.
- Other input devices may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner or the like.
- These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 721 through a serial port interface 746 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port or a universal serial bus (USB).
- a monitor 747 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus
- the personal computer 720 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 749.
- the remote computer 749 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the personal computer 720, although only a memory storage device 750 has been illustrated in Figure 7.
- the logical connections depicted in Figure 7 include a local area network (LAN) 751 and a wide area network (WAN) 752.
- LAN local area network
- WAN wide area network
- the personal computer 720 When used in a LAN networking environment, the personal computer 720 is connected to the local network 751 through a network interface or adapter 753. When used in a WAN networking environment, the personal computer 720 typically includes a modem 754 or other means for establishing communications over the wide are network 752, such as the Internet.
- the modem 754 which may be internal or external, is connected to the system bus 723 via the serial port interface 746.
- program modules depicted relative to the personal computer 720, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing communications between the computers may be used.
- the present invention provides a method of representation of color in images using color data values for an expanded colorspace, e.g., an expanded colorspace, e.g., an expanded colorspace, e.g., an expanded colorspace, e.g., an expanded colorspace, e.g., an expanded colorspace, e.g., an expanded color
- the method includes the steps ofrepresenting 802 the color data values as perceptually visible data values in an expanded RGB/RGBA space and labeling 804 an image determined by the perceptually visible data values as an expanded RGB/RGBA colorspace image.
- the method may also include mapping 806 the perceptually visible data values of the image to color data values of another selected destination colorspace. Where the perceptually visible data values may lie outside a predetermined range, the mapping may include clipping the perceptually visible data values for the selected destination colorspace.
- Mapping may include utilizing a predetermined transformation function that maps the perceptually visible data values to color data values in the selected destination colorspace.
- the expanded RGB/RGBA colorspace is linear in visual intensity.
- the method of the present invention provides for representing at least one of: super transparent and super opaque colors using an alpha channel. The method includes the steps of: representing 902 color data values as perceptually visible super transparent/super opaque data values in a colorspace and labeling 904 an image determined by the perceptually visible super transparent/super opaque data values as a super transparent/super opaque colorspace image. Color operations defined in the RGB/RGBA colorspace may be extended to the expanded RGB/RGBA colorspace.
- the alpha channel includes 16 bits to provide increased precision.
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