Solid-state color image pickup camera which has registration adjusting circuits so as to adjust the red and blue images so that they register with the green image
OwnerFumio Nagumoinventor
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Abstract
A solid-state image pickup apparatus which produces output color image signals having the required number of scanning lines from the respective color signals which are obtained by photographing an image formed by an image pickup tube. In the apparatus, the image pickup section consists of solid-state image sensors which produce one color signal with the required number of scanning lines and other color signals with the number of scanning lines which are more than the required number. A registration adjustment means executes registration adjustment processing on the color signals obtained at the image pickup device by using the other color signals.
Claims4
A solid-state color image pickup apparatus which has a plurality of solid-state image pickup elements, the apparatus comprising:
- a color decomposing prism which receives an incident light image and decomposes it into red, blue, and green light images;
- a plurality of solid-state image pickup elements which are responsive to the red, blue, and green light images and which produce analog signals representing the three primary colors red, blue, and green, wherein at least the red and blue analog signals have more horizontal scanning lines than are normally used in one conventional television field;
- a plurality of analog-to-digital (A/D) converters which receive and digitize the red, blue, and green analog signals;
- a pair of registration adjustment means which receive and interpolate the red and blue digital signals;
- a control means which controls said pair of registration adjustment means on the basis of control data;
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- a control data storage which supplies the control data to said control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.