US 9,100,604 B2
Electric cameraGeneral
US 9,100,604 B2
Electric camera
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Luong T Nguyen
Art Unit:
2663 Digital Cameras; Image Analysis; Applications; pattern Recognition; Color and Compression; Enhancement and Transformation
Agent:
Inventors:
Takahiro Nakano; Ryuji Nishimura; Toshiro Kinugasa
Assignee:
Priority:
01/11/00
Filed:
04/29/14
Granted:
08/04/15
Expiration:
09/11/23
Abstract
An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04N2209/045H04N