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US 4,059,839 AGranted
Solid state camera
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsSeisuke Yamanaka, Fumio Nagumo
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Abstract
A solid state color camera such as one-chip type CCD (charge coupled device) color camera having a color filter employed in association with the CCD chip and arranged so that an output signal derived from every other sequential line of scan includes only color component signals of the object being sensed.
Claims7
A solid state color camera employing a solid state image receiving device having a plurality of picture elements aligned in both horizontal and vertical directions, comprising:
- a. means for projecting an image of an object on said solid state image receiving device;
- b. means for developing and storing electrical information corresponding to the image displayed on said picture elements;
- c. means for reading said information line-by-line in sequence;
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- d. color filter means disposed between said solid state image receiving device and said image projecting means for producing a color signal component only at every other line of picture elements.
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