Patent ID: 7573620

Claim:
A method comprising: supplying at least one pair of gamuts, wherein: the at least one pair of gamuts comprises a first gamut and a second gamut, at least one of the first gamut and the second gamut being a fictitious gamut that does not represent an actual device color profile; and the first gamut comprises one or more gamut attributes useful in evaluating gamut mapping performance; causing mapping between the at least one pair of gamuts, wherein the one or more attributes from the first gamut are mapped to the second gamut; and, automatically evaluating said mapping based upon two or more quantifiable parameters wherein an individual quantifiable parameter is not a color difference parameter and the two or more quantifiable parameters comprise: a number representing ability of the mapping of the one or more attributes from the first gamut to the second gamut; and one or more of: a percentage representing how much the second gamut's volume is mapped from the first gamut; and a number representing how closely the mapping is from a neutral axis of the first gamut to the neutral axis of the second gamut, the neutral axis extending from a black region to a white region of the gamut and through shades of grey extending therebetween.