Method for forming a digital image

A method for generating a digital image using multiple Charge Coupled Device (CCD) arrays,

• wherein the CCD arrays are caused to operate in a conventional scanning standard and in parallel, an optical image is projected simultaneously onto the CCD arrays, the CCD arrays are shifted relative to each other, all video signals from the CCD arrays are simultaneously digitized, pre-processed, recorded in a memory, thereby creating an information field that is read at an increased clock rate and post-processed;
• wherein the optical image is generated on an area equal to a sum of photosensitive areas of n CCD arrays, the optical image is projected simultaneously via four channels onto the CCD arrays which are shifted relative to each other such that each of the CCD arrays generates a video signal from only one of n sectors of the image, n=m2, where m is a number of the CCD arrays both vertically and horizontally, starting from two;
• wherein the CCD arrays of one channel generates video signals from those sectors of the image that do not border on each other, and the information field is read at a rate n times higher than the clock rate by sequentially and electronically combining the video signals from lines of the CCD arrays that convert adjacent sectors of the image horizontally but arranged in different channels, and by sequentially and electronically combining the video signals from frames of the CCD arrays that convert adjacent sectors of the image vertically but arranged in different channels.