Patent ID: 7365754

Claim:
A system, comprising: means for checking image acquisition control parameters in an image acquisition control data structure, said image acquisition control parameters being set by an image-processing application and including a color management parameter indicating whether color management is to be performed; means for controlling an image-capturing device to perform an image-capturing operation according to the image acquisition control parameters in response to an acquisition request by the image-processing application; means for receiving from the image-capturing device color image data generated in the image-capturing operation; means for calling a color management application programming interface to invoke a color management function of a color management component of an operating system to process the color image data received from the image-capturing device when the color management parameter is set to indicate that color management is to be performed; and means for forwarding the processed color image data to the image-processing application via an image acquisition service module, the image acquisition service module operating between the image-processing application and a device driver of the image-capturing device to deliver requests by the image-processing application to the device driver and forwarding color image data from the device driver to the image-processing, application.