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'''Windows Color System''' ('''WCS''') is a platform for [[color management]], first included with [[Windows Vista]], that aims to achieve color consistency across various software and hardware, including cameras, monitors, printers and scanners.<ref name="WCS">{{cite web |title=Windows Color System |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//dd372446(v=vs.85) |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |date=June 6, 2017 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121415/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//dd372446(v=vs.85) |url-status=live }}</ref>
==System== Different devices interpret the same colors differently, according to their software and hardware configurations. As a result, they must be properly calibrated to reproduce colors consistently across different devices. WCS aims to make this process of [[color calibration]] automatic and transparent, as an evolution of [[ICC profile]]s. Windows Color System features a ''Color Infrastructure and Translation Engine'' (CITE) at its core. It is backed up by a color processing pipeline that supports bit-depths more than 32 bits per pixel, multiple color channels (more than three), alternative [[color space]]s and [[high dynamic range imaging|high dynamic range]] coloring, using a technology named ''Kyuanos''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reuveni|first1=Noam|title=Windows Vista to use Canon Color Management|url=http://cameras.reviewed.com/content/Windows-Vista-to-use-Canon-Color-Management|website=Reviewed.com Cameras|date=13 September 2005|access-date=26 November 2014|archive-date=26 November 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141126111947/http://cameras.reviewed.com/content/Windows-Vista-to-use-Canon-Color-Management|url-status=live}}</ref> developed by [[Canon Inc.|Canon]]. The color processing pipeline allows device developers to add their own [[Color management#Gamut mapping|gamut mapping]] algorithm into the pipeline to customize the color response of the device. The new pipeline also supports floating point calculations to minimize [[round-off error]]s, which are inherent in integer processing. Once the color pipeline finishes processing the colors, the CITE engine applies a [[color translation]] according to a color profile, specific to a device to ensure the output color matches to what is expected.
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