Electronic camera employing a solid-state image sensor

A scanner comprising:

• focusing lens for focusing, at the image focal plane of said lens, the image of an object to be scanned;
• a linear array of the type in which rows of light-sensitive devices are scanned in a first direction to provide a train of output pulses proportional in magnitude to the light intensity falling upon each successively scanned light-sensitive device;
• first means for holding said array in the image plane of said lens;
• second means connected to said first means for allowing movement of said first means and hence said array, relative to said lens, in a second direction which is perpendicular to said first direction, between two limits of travel of said array;
• and
• third means, connected to said second means for causing said array to move between said two limits of travel;
• fourth means for maintaining said array in said image plane throughout said movement of said array between said two limits of travel of said array caused by said third means;
• fifth means for providing a position signal bearing a relationship to sequential position intervals of said array between said two limits of travel of said array;
• and,
• sixth means connected to said array and to said fifth means for synchronizing said output pulses from said array with said position signal.