Patent ID: 8643665

Claim:
A method for transformation of colour values of an initial colour space reproducible by a first technical device to colour values of a target colour space reproducible by a second technical device, both the initial colour space and the target color space being related to a defined basic colour space, wherein at least one plane in the colour spaces defines a profile of the brightness from bright to dark, and planes running transversely thereto define colour variations, characterized by the following steps (a) movement from the initial colour space reproducible by the first technical device and/or the target colour space reproducible by the second technical device by conversion of all the colour values of one of the two colour spaces to different colour values in the basic colour space, so that the initial and the target colour space coincide with respect to at least one colour value located at the edge of a colour space, (b) scaling of the initial colour space and/or target colour space by conversion of all of the colour values of one of the two colour spaces to different colour values in the basic colour space, such that the initial and the target colour space coincide with respect to at least one plane which is defined by the edge colour value, which has been made to coincide, and an essentially opposite edge colour value, (c) conversion of each colour value of the initial colour space which is outside of the target colour space to a colour value which is closest to this colour value in the edge area of the target colour space, (d) movement of the colour values which are located in a defined edge area of the target colour space to the interior of the target colour space by conversion as a function of the number of identical edge colour values in each case to colour values essentially on the same colour variation plane, until a predetermined number of identical edge colour values are achieved on the respective colour variation plane.