The Development of a 1920×1080 Pixel Color CCD Camera Progressively Scanned at 60 Frames Per Second

A progressively-scanned video camera is under development using two 1920×1080 CCD sensors (made by Eastman Kodak) with square pixels in a 16:9 aspect ratio. One sensor does not have color filters and the other has color stripe filters. Detail luminance is derived from one sensor; color and low-resolution luminance is derived from the other. The camera output is progressively scanned at 60 frames per second. — If digitized, the output bit rate would be 2.4 gigabits per second. Consequently, subband coding will be used to compress the output to a bit stream that can be recorded on a D-1 or D-5 digital video recorder and still have enough “head room” for post-production processing. This paper will report on the status of the camera development and describe the options for providing good motion rendition without interlace artifacts by using progressive scan.

Published

1996-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00095

ISBN

978-1-61482-925-6