摘要:
A method for modifying an input digital image having one or more color channels, each color channel having an (x,y) array of image pixel values, to form a modified digital image so that when the modified digital image is used to produce a printed image on an inkjet printer there are reduced ink bleed artifacts.
摘要:
A method for determining a set of n-dimensional colorant control signals that map to a point P in an m-dimensional color space where n>m, including determining a forward device model that maps n-dimensional colorant control signals to m-dimensional color space signals; determining a set of n-dimensional colorant control signal simplexes that span a domain of the forward device model; and determining a set of range space simplexes in the m-dimensional color space corresponding to the set of n-dimensional colorant control space signal simplexes by mapping the vertices of the n-dimensional colorant control signal simplexes into the m-dimensional color space using the forward device model. The method also includes specifying a point P in the m-dimensional color space; and determining the set of n-dimensional colorant control signals that map to the point P in the m-dimensional color space, by performing m sequential slicing processes through the set of range space simplexes.
摘要:
A method for multi-level halftoning an input digital image to form an output digital image which includes a multi-level error diffusion halftoning process incorporating periodic dither signals whose amplitudes are adjusted as a function of the error-diffusion texture characteristics.
摘要:
A method for multi-toning an input digital image having input pixels with two or more color channels to form an output digital image having modified output levels. The method includes determining modified output levels using a combined error signal formed from intermediate error signals for each color channel together with an error signal offset value, and adjusting the input levels for the nearby pixels responsive to weighted error signals.
摘要:
A method for printing an input digital image using a digital printer having a set of colorants with substantially the same color but different densities, including a sequence of node points where each of the two or more colorants are either at their maximum or minimum values, setting colorant concentrations such that the color channel output responses corresponding to the sequence of node points are substantially equally spaced in a visually uniform color space; forming colorant control look-up tables to provide smooth transitions in the color channel output response between the sequence of node points; addressing the colorant control look-up tables with the printer code value for each pixel of the input digital image to determine the colorant control signals for each of the two or more colorants; and controlling the digital printer using the colorant control signals to produce a print of the input digital image.
摘要:
A method for reproducing digital images having at least one color channel containing pixels using a digital printer having a set of colorants is disclosed. Two or more of the colorants of the set have substantially the same color but different densities. Printer code values for a particular color channel are used to control colorant amounts for the two or more colorants.
摘要:
A method for segmenting a digital image into a foreground region and a key color region including characterizing a distribution of key color values; using the distribution of key color values to produce a multi-dimensional look-up-table having three or more dimensions indexed by color values in a selected color space to define a key color volume; addressing the multi-dimensional look-up table with color values of pixels in the digital image to determine whether the color values of such pixels are within the key color volume; and labeling pixels in the digital image whose color values fall within the key color volume to be within the key color region and labeling all other pixels to be within the foreground region whereby the digital image is segmented into the foreground region and the key color region.
摘要:
A method for modifying an input digital image having three color channels, to form a modified digital image suitable for use by an inkjet printer having reduced ink bleed artifacts comprising computing a transformed digital image containing at least a black color channel and a color dependent scale factor channel, computing a filtered black color channel using a convolution operation, and forming the modified digital image in response to the corresponding pixel values of the color dependent scale factor channel and the filtered black color channel, so that when the modified digital image is used to produce a printed image on an inkjet printer there are reduced ink bleed artifacts.
摘要:
A method for multi-level error diffusion halftoning an input digital image to form an output digital image with reduced error diffusion texture contouring artifacts which includes modifying the input pixel values for a fraction of the input pixels using a periodic dither signal, where the fraction is a function of the texture artifact characteristics of the multi-level error diffusion halftoning process.
摘要:
A method for determining a control signal for use in combining a first digital image that includes both a foreground region and a key color region having an associated key color with a second background digital image, both images including pixels having color values is disclosed. The method includes segmenting the first digital image into a foreground region and a key color region; and identifying transition region pixels in the first digital image that are in the vicinity of a boundary between the segmented foreground region and the segmented key color region. The method further includes computing a color difference signal between the color values of the first digital image and the key color for at least some pixels in the transition region; and computing a control signal for transition region pixels as a function of the color difference signal, where the control signal is to be used to combine the foreground region of the first digital image with the second background digital image.