Multi-Environment Advanced System for Colour Treatment

MASCOT - 2103

Keywords colour acquisition systems, colour image compression algorithms, peripherals

Start Date: 01-JUL-89 / Duration: 24 months

Objectives and Approach

The project dealt with the development of sophisticated and advanced technology equipment, methods and software techniques, which make it possible to pick up, process and produce colour images well suited to cover most of the present and future needs in multiple application environments.

MASCOT's aims were to develop:

a multipurpose, multi-environment colour acquisition system; this will require the development of advanced colour area sensors and high-performance, flexible lens systems
a colour ink-jet printer, with new design concepts which will make it possible to obtain the desired performance level in terms of print quality and printing speed
high-performance black and coloured inks, as well as special low-cost coated paper, for optimum colour rendition
high efficiency, low-loss compression/decompression algorithms for colour images, implemented both in software and in hardware and integrated into the system.

The 2-D graphics library of the MS-Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) was to be extended to 3-D geometrical objects, with a metalanguage mapped on GDI defined and implemented to describe the structure of a document; and desktop publishing and technical office software applications were to be written that made use of the extended GDI graphics library and the features of the metalanguage. An integrated feasibility model was to be developed to demonstrate the results of the research.

CONTACT POINT

Ing Giuseppe Fogaroli
ING. C. OLIVETTI & C. SPA
Via Jervis 77
I - 10015 IVREA
tel: + 39/ 125-528913
fax: + 39/ 125-422077
telex: 210030

Participants

ING. C. OLIVETTI & C. SPA - I - C
COMPUTER LOGIC R&D - GR - P
ICI PLC - UK - P
THOMSON-CSF - DCI - F - P
KERN & CO AS - CH - S
HITEC LTD - GR - A
PSI CO LABORATORIES RCA LTD - CH - A
OPTEC SRI - I - A
OLIVETTI INFORMATION SERVICES
RICERCA SCPA - I - A
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN - B - A

MASCOT - 2103, December 1993

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