Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Recording apparatus
Patent
1990-06-29
1992-06-09
Groody, James J.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Recording apparatus
35821326, 357 24, H04N 314, H04N 5335
Patent
active
051212145
ABSTRACT:
An electronic method for eliminating artifacts in a video camera (10) employing a charge coupled device (CCD) (12) as an image sensor. The method comprises the step of initializing the camera (10) prior to normal read out and includes a first dump cycle period (76) for transferring radiation generated charge into the horizontal register (28) while the decaying image on the phosphor (39) being imaged is being integrated in the photosites, and a second dump cycle period (78), occurring after the phosphor (39) image has decayed, for rapidly dumping unwanted smear charge which has been generated in the vertical registers (32). Image charge is then transferred from the photosites (36) and (38) to the vertical registers (32) and read out in conventional fashion. The inventive method allows the video camera (10) to be used in environments having high ionizing radiation content, and to capture images of events of very short duration and occurring either within or outside the normal visual wavelength spectrum. Resultant images are free from ghost, smear and smear phenomena caused by insufficient opacity of the registers (28) and (32), and are also free from random damage caused by ionization charges which exceed the charge limit capacity of the photosites (36) and (37).
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Turko Bojan T.
Yates George J.
Burgess Glenton B.
Gaither Roger S.
Groody James J.
Moser William R.
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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