Image processing apparatus

An imaging processing apparatus comprising:

• unidimensional color scanning means comprising a plurality of pixels each having a plurality of kinds of photoelectric transducer elements with each kind converting a different color of light, said elements being arranged regularly in a unidimensional direction with a first color transducer element at the center of each pixel and second and third color transducer elements being at a point other than the center of each pixel;
• said color scanning means outputting for a subject pixel a first color signal equal to the output from said first color transducer element and second and third color signals which are equal to the sums of the outputs from two of the second and third transducer elements, respectively, which are closest to the center of the subject pixel, divided by the relative distances from the center of the subject pixel;
• smoothing filter for correcting said first color signals such that the MTF characteristics of color signals from said unidimensional color scanner means coincide;
• deciding means for determining the characteristic of an image signal area by area on the basis of said first color signal corrected by said smoothing filter and said second and third color signals;
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• image processing means for processing color signals from said unidimensional color scanning means on the basis of the characteristics determined area by area by said deciding means.