Color television camera
AssigneeGeneral Company Limited
InventorYasumasa Sugihara
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Abstract
A color television camera including an image sensor comprising a photosensitive array of photoelements arranged in a matrix, an image focussed onto the surface of the array causing a photon produced charge to be stored in selected photoelements, a signal from respective elements being read out to output means in the form of a packet of charge. Each of the photoelements is made to be sensitive to light of only one color component even though the assembly of the photoelements are sensitive to light having more than one color components, the charge stored in a selected number of rows of the array being read out sequentially within each row and simultaneously for the selected number of rows during a sequential horizontal scanning line period.
Claims13
A color television camera, comprising:
- an image sensor comprising an array of photosensitive photoelements arranged in a matrix and each responsive to only one particular color component and said array including photoelements responsive to different color components, wherein ones of said photoelements responsive to the same particular color component are arranged in groups within the matrix, and wherein an optical image focused in use on said array of photoelements induces in respective ones of said photoelements a respective stored quantity of charge representative of an intensity of the particular color components of the optical image at that position of each of the respective photoelements;
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- means for sequentially reading out the stored quantities of charge stored in the respective photoelements comprising each group of photoelements responsive to a same particular color component and for reading out the stored charges from the different groups simultaneously to simultaneously develop signal sequences each representative of a different color component of the optical image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.