Patent Document ID: 20150350484
Application ID: 14725757
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for creating a scanner profile using a scanner that reads an image to acquire a first color value of a device-dependent color space and a colorimeter that color-measures the image to acquire a second color value of a device-independent color space, the method comprising the steps of: by reading, by the scanner, a printed material of chart image data including a plurality of patches which are composed of C, M, Y, K values and differentiated in color and density from each other, acquiring a first color value for the patches; acquiring a K value for the patches of the chart image data; acquiring a second color value for the patches by color-measuring the printed material by the colorimeter; and creating a scanner profile describing a relationship of the second color value to the first color value and the K value based on the acquired first color value, K value and second color value for each of the plurality of patches.