Patent ID: 7760955

Claim:
A method for producing formatted information related to defects of appliances of at least two appliance chains, addressed to an image-processor for modifying quality of images processed by the image-processor, each appliance chain including at least one image-capture appliance, at least one image-restitution appliance, or a combination thereof, the method comprising: producing data of the formatted information according to a standard format, characterizing the defects of the appliances of each appliance chain, and storing the formatted information in a database, wherein at least one image-capture appliance is provided with at least one variable characteristic depending on the image, fractions of the formatted information being related to the defects of the at least one image-capture appliance, each variable characteristic being configured to be associated with a value to form a combination including the set of the variable characteristics and of the values, the method further including producing a first fraction of the formatted information for a predetermined selection of the combinations, the first fraction of the formatted information being entered in a field of the formatted information as measured formatted information, and obtaining a second fraction of the formatted information related to an arbitrary combination from the measured formatted information, as extended formatted information, the formatted information including the extended formatted information in place of the measured formatted information.