Image pickup system
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshimitsu Noguchi, Tomomichi Nakai, Yoshihito Higashitsutsumi
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Abstract
An image pickup section includes the number of pixels in the vertical direction which is decreased one-half less than the number of scan lines. A signal containing image components is outputted every one horizontal line. The horizontal line containing the image components in an odd field is offset from that in an even field by one line. In both the odd and even fields, leach of these image signals are multiplexed on a signal delayed by one horizontal scan period to form an image signal which contains the same image components for each two horizontal lines. This image signal is then displayed in the non-interlace manner.
Claims5
An apparatus for producing a video display signal for a display having a first predetermined number of pixels in a vertical direction and a second predetermined number of pixels in a horizontal direction, including a solid state image pickup element having a number of pixels in the vertical direction which is less than said first predetermined number of pixels, said apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup section having one-half of said first predetermined number of pixels in the vertical direction;
- transfer means for outputting information charges obtained by said image pickup section in the vertical direction every other horizontal scan period, and for outputting said information charges obtained by said image pickup section in the horizontal direction for one horizontal period each time when said information charges are received, said transfer being adapted to provide a image signal having image components on every other horizontal line;
- timing control means connected to said image pickup section for setting the vertical transfer timing in said transfer means such that the timing in an odd field will be offset from that in an even field by one horizontal scan period;
- means connected to the output of said transfer means, for delaying the image signal outputted from said solid state image pickup element by one horizontal scan period and for synthesizing the delayed image signal with the image signal from said solid state image pickup element to multiplex delayed image components from delayed image signals on a horizontal line which contains no image component, wherein the same image information is repeatedly displayed on two lines to obtain an image signal having image components in all the horizontal scan periods;
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- reproduction means for reproducing an image on a monitor display by scan lines which are at the same positions in the odd- and even-numbered fields.
An apparatus for producing a video display signal for a display having a first predetermined number of pixels in a vertical direction and a second predetermined number of pixels in a horizontal direction, a number of pixels in the vertical direction which is less than said first predetermined number of pixels, said apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup section having one-half of said first predetermined number of pixels in the vertical direction;
- transfer means for outputting information charges obtained by said image pickup section in the vertical direction every other horizontal scan period, and for outputting said information charges obtained by said image pickup section in the horizontal direction for one horizontal period each time when said information charges are received, said transfer being adapted to provide a image signal having image components on every other horizontal line;
- timing control means connected to said image pickup section, for setting the vertical transfer timing in said transfer means such that the timing in an odd field will be offset from that in an even field by one horizontal scan period;
- means connected to the output of said transfer means, for delaying the image signal outputted from said solid state image pickup element by one horizontal scan period and for synthesizing the delayed image signal with the image signal from said solid state image pickup element to multiplex delayed image components from delayed image signals on a horizontal line which contains no image component;
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- reproduction means including a double-matrix liquid crystal display panel for displaying image information of interpolated signals in all horizontal scan periods;
- said double-matrix liquid crystal display panel including display pixel rows arranged in a zigzagged manner, and displaying pixels in a row for two lines at a time, and each pixel indicating independent pieces of information.
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