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

A progressively scanned video camera using two 1920 times 1080 charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors (made by Eastman Kodak) with square pixels in a 16:9 aspect ratio is under development. 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/sec. If digitized, the output bit rate would be 2.4 Gbits/sec. Consequently, subband coding will be used to compress the output to a bit stream that can be recorded on a D-l 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.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1997-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J04511