Patent ID: 8643664

Claim:
A gamut converting device that applies gamut conversion to image data, the gamut converting device comprising: a memory unit for storing data; a signal converting unit that performs, when a negative value is included in an image signal value forming the image data, processing for converting the image signal value forming the image data to eliminate the negative value from the image signal value and outputs the image data without the processing for converting the image signal when a negative value is not included in the image signal; and a gamut converting unit that applies the gamut conversion to the image data, the image signal value of which is converted by the signal converting unit, wherein the gamut converting unit converts a RGB image signal of a DCI standard into a RGB image signal of ITU-R709 standard in order to display an image associated with the image data on a display device having the gamut of the ITU-R709 standard, wherein the signal converting unit determines a converting coefficient for converting the image signal value based on a representation of the image data in a device-independent calorimetric system, and wherein the signal converting unit determines a space in the device-independent calorimetric system, places a first point in the device-independent calorimetric system corresponding to an image signal having negative values, selects a second point in the space that is closest to a first point, and determines the converting coefficient using the first point and the second point, and wherein the signal converting unit receives an input RGB image signal and outputs a converted RGB signal to the gamut converting unit, and the RGB image signal converted by the signal converting unit assumes the same gamut as that of the RGB image signal before conversion, and wherein the signal converting unit determines the space based on image signals that have non-negative values, and a point outside the space represents an image signal that has a negative value, the non-negative values being divided by an interval ten times smaller than the negative values.