Patent ID: 7106474

Claim:
A method for transforming source color image data from a source device into destination color image data for rendering by a destination device, wherein said method uses a color management module which has a source color transform generator for generating a source color transform, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining the source color image data, wherein the source color image data is in a source color space corresponding to the source device; obtaining a source color data file corresponding to the source device, wherein the source color data file contains source device color characteristic data, and wherein the source device color characteristic data contains calorimetric data and corresponding device signal data; constructing a source color transform based on the source device color characteristic data contained in the source color data file, wherein said source color transform is constructed by using the source color transform generator, and wherein the source color transform transforms the source color image data to interim color image data in an interim color space; and applying the constructed source color transform and a destination color transform to the source color image data to transform the source color image data from the source device color space into the destination color image data.