Patent ID: 7626723

Claim:
A color-conversion-table creating method comprising: (a) defining, with a color-conversion-table creating device, a color gamut in a first color space defined for a first device, the color gamut having a surface, an internal space surrounded by the surface, surface grid points positioned on the surface, and internal grid points positioned in the internal space; and determining a correspondence relationship between the surface grid points in the first color space and parameters in a second color space defined for a second device; (b) determining, by using linear interpolation based on the correspondence relationship determined in step (a), a correspondence relationship between the internal grid points in the first color space and parameters in the second color space; and (c) creating a color conversion table indicative of a correspondence relationship between all grid points in the first color space and parameters in the second color space based on both the correspondence relationship determined in step (a) and the correspondence relationship determined in step (b), the all grid points including the surface grid points and the internal grid points, allowing the color conversion table to be used for converting image data represented in the first color space into image data represented in the second color space; wherein: a predetermined plurality of hues are defined in the color gamut; the surface grid points include hue surface grid points belonging to the predetermined plurality of hues; the internal grid points include hue internal grid points belonging to the predetermined plurality of hues and in-between internal grid points positioned between the hue internal grid points; and step (b) includes: (d) determining, for each of the predetermined plurality of hues, a correspondence relationship between the hue internal grid points and parameters in the second color space, by using linear interpolation based on the relationship between the hue surface grid points and the parameters in the second color space.