Patent ID: 8767003
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A gamut mapping system for implementing out-of-gamut spot color reproduction, the system comprising: a memory for electronically storing information related to at least one color gamut; a gamut mapping editor incorporated in a digital front end including a processor communicating with the memory, the processor of the gamut mapping editor (i) causing a user to be apprised that a target spot color is outside the at least one color gamut and (ii) facilitating the user's employment of one or more of a plurality of gamut mapping methodologies, by listing said plurality of gamut mapping methodologies, to select a preferred color from a plurality of mapped colors when the target spot color is outside the at least one color gamut; wherein said plurality of mapped colors is defined in a uniformed color space; wherein said plurality of mapped colors is represented on a graphical user interface (GUI) by converting CIELAB values to display color space; and wherein the GUI displays the target spot color and the mapped colors visually and in association with a visual printer gamut object comprising a graph illustrating the target spot color, the plurality of mapped colors on a surface of the gamut object, and an arrow ray indicating a selected gamut mapping methodology.