Patent ID: 6496280
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: G03C,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for development processing an exposed silver halide color light-sensitive material and outputting image information obtained from the developed image to a printer, which comprises1) a mechanism for detecting the kind of the exposed color light-sensitive material, 2) a mechanism for choosing either basic development processing conditions or non-basic development processing conditions and carrying out development processing under the chosen conditions, 3) a mechanism for reading image information from the developed color light-sensitive material and converting the image information into optical or electrical digital information, 4) a mechanism for image processing the optical or electrical digital information into target image characteristics which should have been obtained if said exposed color light-sensitive material had been development processed under basic development processing conditions, and 5) an output mechanism for outputting the converted image characteristics to the printer to obtain a positive image having the same image quality as could be obtained by basic development processing.