Color connecting apparatus for a video camera

Abstract

A color correcting apparatus is arranged to enable color matching between a plurality of video cameras by operating each camera without requiring a reference camera. A color matching processing section provided in a camera control unit for each camera generates a reference signal representing colors of a standard color chart. When color matching is performed between a plurality of video cameras, the color matching processing section detects information corresponding to the difference between the reference signal and a color signal obtained by forming an image of the standard color chart with one camera, and sends the detected information as color error data to a CPU. The CPU calculates setting data necessary for color correction performed by the color matching processing section, and sends the setting data to the color matching processing section. In normal use of the apparatus, the color matching processing section performs color correction based on the setting data.

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