Patent ID: 7436557

Claim:
An image reading system comprising: an image reading section that reads an image from a transparent original and outputs an image signal indicative of the image; a negative/positive-setting section via which an operator sets a type of the transparent original to be read by said image reading section to a negative original or a positive original; a display section that displays the image read from the transparent original read by said image reading section; an image processing section that subjects the image signal outputted from said image reading section to predetermined image processing; and a control section that always causes said image reading section to read the transparent original according to settings suitable for reading a positive original, irrespective of the type of the transparent original set by said negative/positive-setting section, causes said image processing section to subject the image signal outputted from said image reading section to image processing according to the type of the transparent original set by said negative/positive-setting section, and causes said display section to display an image obtained by the image processing.