Visualization Software for Spectral Database SOCS

Abstract

The Standard Object Color Spectra database for color reproduction evaluation (SOCS) was developed and is introduced in this paper. It has been published in a Japanese Industrial Standard Technical Report (JIS-TR) and will be published in a International Standard Organization Technical Report (ISO-TR). The total number of colors in SOCS is up to 49672, and divided into eight categories. SOCS Viewer, as a visualization software developed for SOCS has also been developed and described in this paper. SOCS Viewer provides six fundamental functions, as a results, makes color analysis intuitively.