Television – Camera – system and detail – With single image scanning device supplying plural color...
Patent
1997-07-24
2000-04-04
Garber, Wendy
Television
Camera, system and detail
With single image scanning device supplying plural color...
348219, 348266, 358518, H04N 904, H04N 907, H04N 5225, G03F 308
Patent
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ABSTRACT:
A combination of digital camera design and digital photography technique that allows a single digital camera to be used for both single-shot and multiple-shot color operation. The invention includes a digital camera half of the light-sensing elements of which--the "majority pixels"--are sensitive to a first primary color and the other half of which--the "minority pixels"--are divided about equally between those sensitive to a second primary color and those sensitive to a third primary color. Further, these light-sensitive elements are arranged so that by a simple lateral shift of the array, typically by the width of a single pixel, every one of the majority pixels will be moved into a position previously held by one of the minority pixels. When used in conjunction with known pixel-interpolation methods this camera produces single-shot digital images equal or better in color quality to any existing single-shot digital camera. Shooting a scene twice, with the array shifted as indicated above between the two shots, and using known interpolation techniques to determine all three primary colors at each pixel location, a final photograph essentially as good as any provided by traditional three-shot digital photography can be achieved. For cameras having the requisite array of photosensitive elements, but not incorporating a mechanism for moving the array separately from the rest of the camera, the present invention can be practiced by rotating the described camera about an axis lying in the principal plane of and passing through the principal point of the camera's lens.
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patent: 4642678 (1987-02-01), Cok
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Bohan Thomas L.
Christensen Andrew B.
Garber Wendy
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