Patent ID: 9536284
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of modifying digital image data associated with an imaging appliance chain, the appliance chain including at least one device exhibiting at least one defect that can be characterized by formatted information, the method comprising: retrieving, from the digital image data, by an image processing apparatus, identifier information for each device within the appliance chain and variable characteristic information for the at least one device, wherein the identifier information is used by the image processing apparatus to determine devices within the appliance chain, and wherein the variable characteristic information represents at least one setting of the at least one device made during capture of the digital image data; searching, based upon the identifier information and the variable characteristic information, in a computer-readable storage medium, for at least one compiled directory of formatted information related to a plurality of device models and organized by device model, wherein the at least one compiled directory includes first formatted information related to a device model of the same model as the at least one device that is generated by calibrating the device model of the same model as the at least one device based upon characteristics of the device model of the same model as the at least one device, and second formatted information derived directly from the first formatted information without further calibration, wherein the first formatted information and second formatted information include the same items of data in the same format; retrieving, based upon the search, either the first formatted or second formatted information as specific formatted information, modifying the digital image data by the image processing apparatus to correct for the at least one defect using the specific formatted information.