block 610 the matrix operation circuit 504 will operate on the psw signals or other signals according to the particular application to generate the adjusted color component signals in accordance with the selected matrix coefficients the concepts taught herein can be extended to the use of other points in the color space without departing from the intended teachings hereof for instance the color correction can be implemented before or after a gamma correction operation or implemented as part of the degamma scaling operation likewise other embodiments use logic thresholds to sample yc r c b values to determine the proper primary and secondary colors and implement the color correction techniques in a y u2032 c r u2032 c b u2032 to r u2032 g u2032 b u2032 conversion matrix the color correction described herein is applicable to both additive and subtractive color systems the term u201c combined primary u201d will be used to describe the mixture of all of the primary colors whether describing white in an additive system or black in a subtractive system fig7 is a block diagram of a film to video transfer system 700 utilizing the improved color correction 702 of the present invention to translate digitized image data prior to storing the digitized data the color correction described may be performed by an image transfer machine or scanner 703 when capturing or.