Color CCD solid-state image pickup device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTetsuya Iizuka
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Abstract
A color CCD solid-state image pickup device having a color filter array such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction. Even rows and odd rows of pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same filter arrays and it is thereby made possible for signal charges of light-receiving parts in pixels of a Kth row (K being a positive integer) and signal charges of light-receiving parts in pixels of either of the K.+-.th rows to be mixed and vertically transferred in the vertical shift registers.
Claims9
A color CCD solid-state image pickup device comprising pixels arrayed in a matrix, vertical shift registers provided in correspondence with vertical columns of pixels for transferring signal charges from said pixels in the vertical direction and a color filter array of a kind such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction, wherein:
- even rows and odd rows of said pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same color filter arrays;
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- signal charges of light-receiving parts in pixels of a Kth row, K being a positive integer, and signal charges of light-receiving parts in pixels of either of the K.+-.2th rows are mixed and vertically transferred in said vertical shift registers.
A color CCD solid-state image pickup device comprising pixels arrayed in a matrix, vertical shift registers provided in correspondence with vertical columns of pixels for transferring signal charges from said pixels in the vertical direction and a color filter array of a kind such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction, wherein:
- even rows and odd rows of said pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same color filter arrays;
- signal charges of an even row and signal charges of an even row two rows thereabove or therebelow are mixed in the vertical registers and these two rows are thereby compressed into one;
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- signal charges of an odd row and signal charges of an odd row two rows thereabove or therebelow are mixed in the vertical registers and these two rows are thereby compressed into one.
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