Patent ID: 6829058
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A network server for communicating with a network terminal through a network, comprising:holding means for holding a plurality of different device profiles; source profile setting means for setting a source profile; reception means for receiving, from the network terminal, selection information of a destination profile; destination profile setting means for selecting a device profile from the plurality of device profiles held in said holding means, based on the selection information, and setting the selected device profile as the destination profile; color matching means for performing a color matching process on image data that includes one or more objects, by using a color management module, the source profile and the destination profile, wherein the color matching process is performed according to what kind of object each of the objects in the image data is; and communication means for outputting the image data that has been subjected to the color matching process, to an external apparatus through the network, wherein said source profile setting means receives a profile from the network terminal and sets the received profile as the source profile when the receiverd profile is attached to an image file, and receives profile selection information of the user from the network terminal and sets the profile corresponding to the profile selection information as the source profile when no profile is attached to the image file, and wherein said communication means outputs the image data that has been subjected to the color matching process to said network terminal when image data that has been subjected to the color matching process is displayed on a monitor, and outputs the image data that has been subjected to the color matching process to a network printer when image data that has been subjected to the color matching process is output by the printer.