System and method for synchronizing the appearance of color images

A method for color characterization of a self-illuminating imaging device comprising the steps of:

• a) receiving a request for a color image from a web browser;
• b) forwarding the request for a color image to a web server;
• c) receiving a response to the request from the web server;
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• d) embedding a color characterization program in the response to facilitate color characterization of a self-illuminating imaging device.

A system for color characterization of a self-illuminating imaging device and synchronization of the appearance of color images on the self-illuminating imaging device comprising:

• a) a characterization stage including:
• i) means for embedding a color characterization program in a response to an initial browser based request for a color image to facilitate the color characterization of a self-illuminating imaging device associated with the browser;
• ii) means for forwarding the embedded response to a web browser;
• iii) means for generating a profile characterizing the self-illuminating imaging device using the color characterization program;
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• iv) means for storing the profile as a cookie on a workstation associated with the self-illuminating imaging device, wherein the cookie represents a set of twelve numerical profiling values;
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• b) a synchronization stage including:
• i) means for modifying a response to a subsequent browser based request for a color image by replacing the image tags associated with the color image with substitute image tags configured to effect a color transformation based upon the profile characterizing the self-illuminating imaging device;
• ii) means for forwarding the modified response to the web browser;
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• iii) means for transforming the color image based upon the substitute image tags for display on the self-illuminating imaging device.

A method for color characterization of a self-illuminating imaging device comprising the steps of:

• a) receiving a request for a color image from a web browser;
• b) forwarding the request for a color image to a web server;
• c) receiving a response to the request from the web server;
• and
• d) embedding a color characterization program in the response to facilitate color characterization of a self-illuminating imaging device using a set of color films each having a predetermined calorimetric reference value.

A system for synchronizing the appearance of color images on a self-illuminating imaging device comprising:

• a) a workstation including a self-illumination imaging device;
• b) a web browser operatively associated with the workstation;
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• c) a color management program operatively associated with the web browser for performing color transformations, based upon the color characteristics of the self-illuminating imaging device, upon color images received by the web browser and displayed on the self-illuminating imaging device.

A method of characterizing an image display device comprising the steps of:

• a) providing a set of color reference means each having a predetermined reference value associated therewith;
• b) positioning each of the color reference means on a display surface;
• c) visually matching each of the color reference means with a color image displayed on the display surface by the image display device by selectively adjusting the color settings of the image display device;
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• d) generating a color profile for the image display device based upon the final color settings selected for each of the color reference means.