Patent ID: 6498610
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
A digital front end of a image-rendering device comprising:a graphical user interface through which a user inputs desired operations; a color collection manager configured to receive information from the graphical user interface; a device profile database which stores a plurality of image profiles corresponding to images to be rendered, the profile database storing data in a format supported by the digital front end; a third party profile database which stores a plurality of image profiles corresponding to images to be rendered, the third party database storing data in a format other than that supported by the digital front end; and a decomposer configured to decompose image data of an image to be rendered, the decomposer including a color profile manager, a decomposer database and a plurality of plug-ins, wherein the color collection manager has an interface to the decomposer to notify the decomposer of a change being made to the device profile database, wherein one of the plug-ins are activated to obtain the changes to the device profile database and store the changes on the decomposer database, and wherein when information is requested from a third party profile database, another one of the plurality of plug-ins is activated to obtain, reformat and supply the requested information to the decomposer.