US6011583A
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Image sensing apparatus using a non-interlace or progressive scanning type sensing device
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1996-09-06
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Granted: 2000-01-04
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Expires: 2016-09-06
Abstract
Abstract A CCD converts an optical image of an object formed on its image sensing surface into electrical charges, and sequentially outputs the electrical charges of all of the light receiving pixels in one scanning operation in non-interlaced form. The outputs from the CCD are converted to the digital image signals by an analog-digital converter. A camera signal processing unit processes the digital image signals, thereby generating two streams of signals; one is digital video signals SV1 which are standard digital video signals in interlaced form, and the other is signals SV2 which are not outputted as the digital video signals SV1 out of the digital image signals of all of the light receiving pixels. These two streams of signals, SV1 and SV2, are processed differently depending upon a mode selected by a switch.
Inventors
- 👤 Teruo Hieda
- 👤 Kousuke Nobuoka
- 👤 Izumi Matsui
- 👤 Yukinori Yamamoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 13:46
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N9/00; H04N9/79; H04N9/80; H04N9/804; H04N9/8042; H04N25/00; H04N25/10; H04N25/11; H04N25/13; H04N25/135; H04N25/136; H04N25/40; H04N25/44; H04N25/447; H04N5/00; H04N5/76; H04N5/765; H04N5/77; H04N5/772; H04N9/7921
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
136 words
An image sensing apparatus comprising: image sensing means for forming data of all of light receiving pixels in a field period; first output means for alternatively outputting data of pixels in two different fields out of the data of all of the light receiving pixels formed by said image sensing means; second output means for outputting the data of all of the light receiving pixels formed by said image sensing means in every other field period, first processing means for processing the data outputted from said first output means and outputting moving image data; second processing means for processing the data outputted from said second output means and outputting still image data; and selection means for selecting one of the data outputted from said first output means and the data outputted from said second output means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
136 words
An image sensing apparatus comprising: image sensing means for forming data of all of light receiving pixels in a field period; first output means for alternatively outputting data of pixels in two different fields out of the data of all of the light receiving pixels formed by said image sensing means; second output means for outputting the data of all of the light receiving pixels formed by said image sensing means in every other field period, first processing means for processing the data outputted from said first output means and outputting moving image data; second processing means for processing the data outputted from said second output means and outputting still image data; and selection means for selecting one of the data outputted from said first output means and the data outputted from said second output means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
The image sensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image sensing means sequentially outputs the data of all of the light receiving pixels as a multiple number of single horizontal scan lines.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
33 words
The image sensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image sensing means outputs the data of all of the light receiving pixels as a multiple number of pairs of horizontal scan lines.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
158 words
An image sensing apparatus comprising: image sensing means for outputting non-interlaced data of all of light receiving pixels in a field period; a color filter provided in front of said image sensing means; first output means for adding data of pixels, outputted from said image sensing means, on two horizontal adjacent lines whose combination in a field period is different from that in a previous field period and outputting the added data; second output means for outputting the non-interlaced data of all of the light receiving pixels outputted from said image sensing means in every other field period, first processing means for processing the data outputted from said first output means and outputting moving image data; second processing means for processing the data outputted from said second output means and outputting still image data; and selection means for selecting one of the data outputted from said first output means and the data outputted from said second output means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
158 words
An image sensing apparatus comprising: image sensing means for outputting non-interlaced data of all of light receiving pixels in a field period; a color filter provided in front of said image sensing means; first output means for adding data of pixels, outputted from said image sensing means, on two horizontal adjacent lines whose combination in a field period is different from that in a previous field period and outputting the added data; second output means for outputting the non-interlaced data of all of the light receiving pixels outputted from said image sensing means in every other field period, first processing means for processing the data outputted from said first output means and outputting moving image data; second processing means for processing the data outputted from said second output means and outputting still image data; and selection means for selecting one of the data outputted from said first output means and the data outputted from said second output means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
33 words
The image sensing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said image sensing means sequentially outputs the data of all of the light receiving pixels as a multiple number of single horizontal scan lines.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
33 words
The image sensing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said image sensing means outputs the data of all of the light receiving pixels as a multiple number of pairs of horizontal scan lines.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
29 words
The image sensing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said second processing means performs negative-positive inversion in which luminance levels and color levels of data of pixels are inverted.
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