A system and method for providing critical end user feedback as to the
color correction status of imagery shown on a client display, thus
notifying the user that the color image being viewed is color accurate. In
particular, the invention includes server and or client based applets
which automatically informs viewers and/or other receivers of digital
images as to the state of color correction for a particular digital image,
thus notifying a viewer of the visual integrity of the digital image being
displayed. The notification may be an icon that provides users with a
visible indication about the integrity of color imagery currently being
viewed by the client at a specific web site. It does this by briefly
flashing the cursor for a fraction of a second to indicate if whether or
not the page is being viewed utilizing calibrated color. This icon can be
implemented in addition, or instead, in the OS, in a web-enabled
application, or in a browser (when implemented on as a client-side
application); or it can be implemented as an image, tag, program, or
watermark embedded within a web page by the web server or by any of the
links between server and client within the network infrastructure.
