Flexible gray component replacement (GCR) based on CIE L*a*b*

Hitoshi Ogatsu; Kazumasa Murai; Shinji Kita

doi:10.1117/12.206540

10 April 1995 Flexible gray component replacement (GCR) based on CIE L*a*b*

Hitoshi Ogatsu; Kazumasa Murai; Shinji Kita;

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Proceedings Volume 2414, Device-Independent Color Imaging II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206540
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

To improve the color fidelity of 4 color reproduction and to increase the flexibility of Gray Component Replacement (GCR) for the text and continuous images, a novel GCR algorithm based on CIE L^*a^*b^* signals is proposed. The algorithm consist of (1) maximum (achromatic) black determination part, (2) black adjustment part based on chroma, and (3) 3 color determination part. On this configuration, black signal is determined ahead of MCY signals, and the freedom of 3 input i.e L^*a^*b^* 4 output i.e. CMYBk conversion is concentrated in (2). By using xerographic color printer, by neural network technique for resolving this, the algorithm is examined. As a result, it is shown that the algorithm can conserve the color fidelity in any GCR rate, and which is applicable on both of text and continuous images.

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Hitoshi Ogatsu, Kazumasa Murai, Shinji Kita, "Flexible gray component replacement (GCR) based on CIE L*a*b*", Proc. SPIE 2414, Device-Independent Color Imaging II, (10 April 1995); doi: 10.1117/12.206540; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206540

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