Patent ID: 6864998
Filing Date: 2005-03-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus for reading an image recorded on a color photosensitive material, which has at least three types of photosensitive layers containing blue photosensitive, green photosensitive and red photosensitive silver halide emulsions on a transmissive support, and which has been processed, after image exposure, so as to generate silver images in each of the photosensitive layers, said apparatus comprising: light sources, which irradiate light at an emulsion surface side and a support surface side of the color photosensitive material, respectively; sensors, which read reflected images corresponding to lights reflected by each of the emulsion surface side and the support surface side of the color photosensitive material, and which read a transmitted image corresponding to a light transmitted through the color photosensitive material; and a reading conditions changing portion, which changes reading conditions of said sensors on the basis of information applied to the color photosensitive material; wherein said sensors are area sensors, and said reading conditions changing portion changes the reading timing of the area sensors in a state in which the color photosensitive material is not being conveyed.