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Color Science
The commercialization of digital imaging products and the
popularity of those products impacts manufacturers of digital
cameras, film and print scanners, inkjet printers and
electrophotographic printers, and a multitude of other digital input
devices and digital output devices. Color science is an important
discipline in industries such as digital printing and printer
manufacturing, photo finishing, pharmaceutical, biomedical, medical
imaging, remote sensing, surveying, astronomy, oceanography, and in
many other areas of science.
TPR's color scientists have worked on many applications for
customers in the above mentioned industries. Color science allows
one to measure color and manipulate color with reference to the
human visual system, which begins with a device (input or output)
characterization step. Device characterization allows us to
understand how a given device responds to colors (input) or creates
colors from a known signal (output). Once the device has been
characterized using as much of its signal range as possible, a model
can be constructed to manipulate input signals and transform them
into new signals that give the desired result. The organization or
management of color reproduction among input, output, and
intermediate display devices is known as "color management".
Worldwide standards are being defined by the International Color
Consortium (ICC) and utilized by imaging product manufacturers
around the world. TPR has experience in creating standard and custom
ICC Profiles for input devices, output devices, and monitors.
The measurement of color, which is termed colorimetry, creates
the foundation from which color can be manipulated. Mathematical
models pertaining to the human visual system allow us to compute
approximations to perceived colors from raw spectral measurements
and to define the colors numerically.
As industries respond to consumer demand for increasing color
quality in most products, the importance of color science to the
development of these products correspondingly increases. TPR has
built deep in-house expertise to lead, or serve on, product
development teams as required.
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