REPRESENTING COLORS IN STORED IMAGES USING COLOR TINTING

摘要

In an image processor, images are created, stored, manipulated and regenerated using color tinting, where color tinting applies component-to-color mapping from a color card (202) to a plurality of component images (200), which are then combined (210) to form a final image (220), tinted according to the content of the color card. In some instances, the color card might code one color for each of N components, in which case the final image might be the merging of each of N monochromatic component images colored by the color coded by the color card. In other instances, the color card codes for intensity levels or a texture.