Image pickup apparatus capable of high resolution imaging

Details Image pickup apparatus capable of high resolution imaging Image pickup apparatus capable of high resolution imaging

1997-01-21

1999-03-30

Ho, Tuan

Television

Camera, system and detail

Unitary image formed by compiling sub-areas of same scene

348208, H04N 5225

Patent

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058895531

ABSTRACT:
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element for photoelectrically converting an optical image formed on an image pickup plane via an image pickup optical system and outputting a picked-up image signal, a variable optical system for shifting the optical image on the image pickup plane of the image pickup element, a control part for controlling the variable optical system and the image pickup element to pickup a predetermined field of view larger than the image pickup plane of the image pickup element by causing the image pickup element to pickup a plurality of optical images at a plurality of shifting positions of the variable optical system, respectively, an A/D converter for converting picked-up image signals outputted from the image pickup element into digital image signals, a memory for storing the digital image signals outputted from the A/D converter, and a signal processor for combining the digital image signals corresponding to the plurality of the optical images stored in the memory and producing an image signal corresponding to the predetermined field of view.

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