Film image reading system

摘要

A film image reading system includes: an image pickup device which picks up a light image of an image recorded on a film to produce raw image signals corresponding to three colors of the light image and indicative of magnitudes corresponding to light amounts of their respective three colors; a signal processor which processes raw image signals of three colors in accordance with a reference to produce output image signals corresponding to three colors of the light image, the output image signals being operable to ensure a proper color balance; a first calculator which calculates differences between a high magnitude image signal of a particular color and respective high magnitude image signals of the remaining colors; and a second calculator which calculates differences between an average magnitude image signal of the particular color and average magnitude image signals of the remaining colors; and a reference changer which changes the reference of the signal processor based on differences calculated by the first and second calculators.