Patent ID: 8830533

Claim:
A method of creating a barcode embedded logo, comprising: dividing a printer gamut into a bright reflectance region, a dark reflectance region, and a middle reflectance region using a reflectance threshold and a predetermined minimum symbol contrast; generating a virtual gamut with colors from the bright and dark reflectance regions based on an original logo image by: selecting a color pair that comprises a first color from the bright reflectance region of the printer gamut and a second color from the dark reflectance region of the printer gamut; and calculating an average color by averaging the first and second colors of the color pair; generating a target logo image by: identifying a reference color in the original logo image; selecting an average color from the virtual gamut that most closely matches the reference color; and replacing each reference color in the original image with a corresponding average color; and producing an embedded logo with an embedded barcode using colors specified in the target logo image.