Patent Document ID: 20020159098
Application ID: 10100609
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A scanner for creating a master for a graphical image, the scanner comprising: a light source to illuminate the graphical image; a collector to segment the graphical image into a plurality of pixels and to collect light emanating from the light source and from each of the plurality of pixels; a hyperspectral analyzer to divide the light from the source and the collected light from each of the plurality of pixels into a plurality of hyperspectral bandpasses, and to measure a light intensity for each of the plurality of hyperspectral bandpasses, wherein the plurality of hyperspectral bandpasses define a continuous spectrum characterized by wavelengths ranging between 360 and 830 nanometers, and wherein the divided light in each hyperspectral bandpass is characterized by a substantially unique and non-overlapping selection of continuous wavelengths from the spectrum; a calculator to transform the measured light intensities for the plurality of hyperspectral bandpasses of the source and the plurality of pixels into a device-independent representation of color; a processor with stored program control for formatting the device-independent representations for the plurality of pixels as a digital data file; and a memory for storing the formatted digital data file.