1920 × 1080 Pixel Color Camera with a Progressive Scan Output at 60 FPS

A high definition camera has been developed that produces color images with 1920 times 1080 pixels progressively scanned at 60 frames per second (FPS). The camera uses two recently developed CCD sensors made by Eastman Kodak. One sensor detects luminance detail and is progressively scanned at 30 FPS. The other has color stripe filters and is progressively scanned two lines at a time at 60 frames per second. The second sensor is used to derive color and low resolutions luminance. Because of the progressive scan, the vertical and horizontal resolution is 1000 TV lines per picture height. Motion rendition is excellent. The sensor and processor are programmable so that all of the scan formats that are likely to be used in the near future can be produced by the camera.

Published

1997-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00232

ISBN

978-1-61482-928-7