Patent Document ID: 8179402
Application ID: 11979074
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a colorimetric color appearance profile and a colorimetric color device profile from spectral data and user input, comprising the steps of: accessing a spectral profile containing spectral data together with normalized colorimetric values; accessing a user input provided by a user on a viewing condition, light source and a medium; determining whether the user input corresponds to a predesignated standard input; if the user input corresponds to the predesignated standard input, populating the colorimetric color appearance profile based on the normalized colorimetric values, and populating the colorimetric color device profile based on the normalized colorimetric values; and if the user input does not correspond to the predesignated standard input, accessing a media module to obtain a spectral reflectance on another medium, predicting a spectral reflectance of color patches on the medium based on the obtained spectral reflectance on the other medium, and based on an interaction between the medium and material of the color patches, generating the colorimetric color appearance profile based on the user input, and generating the colorimetric color device profile based on the user input, the predicted spectral reflectance, and the spectral data.