Patent ID: 6754382
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method for identifying a color space from a color specification, comprising:receiving a color, specification, the color specification defining a mapping from an unknown color space to a well known color space; selecting a test color space, wherein the test color space is a color space used to identify the unknown color space; using the color specification to map the color components of a set of test colors from a representation in the test color space to a representation in the well known color space; using the color components of the set of test colors as represented in the well known color space to determine whether the color specification has correctly mapped the set of test colors from the representation in the test color space to the representation in the well known color space; and identifying the unknown color space as the test color space when the color specification has correctly mapped the set of test colors from the representation in the test color space to the representation in the well known color space.