Patent ID: 8780369
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for cloud administrative management of spatial uniformity correction useful in printing, the method comprising: determining, by a cloud administration system, an achievable gamut achievable by an imaging system for at least one of: all spatial locations of an output image, all print engines of a plurality of print engines, and at least one printer within a cluster of printers, wherein the cloud administration system is a remote resource from at least one of the plurality of print engines and the cluster of printers; determining, by the cloud administration system, a mean gamut, wherein the mean gamut is any gamut containing the achievable gamut; causing, at least in part, a gamut mapping from the mean gamut to the achievable gamut; determining a set of transformations for each of a set of input colors to a set of target colors, the set of target colors selected from colors in the achievable gamut; causing, at least in part, for a received digital image, a transformation of values of at least one of each received image pixel and clusters of received image pixels to transformed values based, at least in part, on the determined set of transformations; causing, at least in part, an output image to be generated based, at least in part, on the transformed values by communicating the transformed values from the cloud administration system to the imaging system; determining an allowable variance value between the determined transformed values and an output performance value of at least one of all the print engines of the plurality of print engines, and at least one printer of the cluster of printers based, at least in part, on the output image; determining the output performance value; determining the output performance value falls outside a threshold range associated with the determined transformed values; causing, at least in part, an error message to be displayed; and determining to cause additional output images to be generated or prohibit generation of additional output images.