Patent ID: 6683981
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image processing method, comprising the steps of:digitally reading frame images exposed and developed in frames of a light-sensitive material and calibration patterns exposed outside image exposure areas of the light-sensitive material at least one of before and after exposure of said frame images, and developed to obtain digital image data for said frame images and digital calibration pattern data at an image reading mode, wherein said image reading mode comprises a first image reading mode and a second reading mode; adjusting an image processing condition concerning at least one of color and density for processing said frame images based on a relative value to the obtained digital calibration pattern data; and processing the digital image data thereafter on said frame images under the thus adjusted image processing condition, wherein the step of adjusting said image processing condition based on the relative value to said digital calibration pattern data is performed by: during the first reading mode, determining a difference between a set image processing condition for the digital image data and an image processing condition based on the digital calibration pattern data and as said relative value, and storing said relative value, and during the second reading mode, modifying the image processing condition using said relative value stored during the first image reading mode and digital calibration pattern data that is read during the second image reading mode, in such a way that an image processing result concerning at least one of the color and the density in said second image reading mode agrees with an image processing result concerning at least one of the color and the density in said first image reading mode.