Abstract:
An optical comb filter has a plurality of optical comb filter elements disposed successively in the advancing direction of light. The optical comb filter characteristics attenuate and remove specific space frequencies which do not have mutual relationships of odd-number multiples and frequencies of the specific space frequencies. At least one phase plate is interposed between neighboring optical comb filter elements in front and rear positions with respect to the light advancing direction. The phase plate converts a light exiting from the front filter element into a light which is divided in the rear filter element into normal light and abnormal light, exiting with mutually equal light quantity. The normal and abnormal light enters, as incident light, the rear filter element.
Abstract:
A color television camera has red filter stripes overlying wider blue filter stripes which in turn overlie a green filter layer. Frequency selective decoding circuitry is provided for separating the red, blue and green representative components of the camera signal.
Abstract:
In a color television camera, a light ray from an object to be taken is split into a plurality of rays to be respectively incident on two or more solid-state imaging devices each equipped with a color separation stripe filter where the imaging devices are positioned so that pixels thereof are horizontally shifted by a predetermined distance from pixels of remaining imaging devices with respect to an image applied thereto. The imaging devices are driven in a sequence, and output signals therefrom are sampled in a sequence so as to produce a single multi-color video signal by combining the plurality of sampled signal components. With this arrangement, the frequency of color signal components within the multi-color video signal is increased from the frequency of each of the output signals from the imaging device. The sampled signal components may be further sampled so that a plurality of color signals corresponding to the colors of the color stripe filters are obtained and their levels are respectively adjusted for obtaining level-adjusted color signal which are then combined to produce a single multi-color video signal.
Abstract:
An image pickup device comprises an image pickup tube provided with a striped filter which is a repetition of a plurality of stripes, and a pair of collimation forming electrodes which form a collimation, a voltage applying circuit for respectively applying predetermined voltages for forming the above collimation to the pair of collimation forming electrodes of the image pickup tube, and a correction voltage applying circuit for varying the collimation forming voltage ratio by applying a correction voltage to the pair of collimation forming electrodes, where correction voltage has a waveform such that the signal level ratios between the signals of the stripe parts of the striped filter in the color multiplexed signal obtained from the image pickup tube, are substantially constant.
Abstract:
A color-resolving striped filter used for a camera tube comprises a plurality of groups of filter stripes. The groups are disposed in parallel and consecutively in a sequentially repeated arrangement. Each of the groups comprises six filter strips from among, a first filter stripe having a light transmission characteristic for transmitting the light of one of the three primary colors of an addition mixture color, a second filter stripe having a light transmission characteristic for transmitting the light of a mixed color which includes the primary color transmitted through said first filter stripe and one of the other two primary colors, a transparent third filter stripe for transmitting white light, and three fourth filter stripes each of which is disposed between and adjacent to the first, second, and third filter stripes. The six filter stripes of each group are arranged in parallel and consecutively in a specific sequence.
Abstract:
A first set of different color signals represented in a colorimetric system is converted into a second set of different color signals represented in another colorimetric system. Predetermined main parts of the second set of the color signals are determined in response to predetermined first portions of the first set of the color signals. Calculation coefficients are determined in response to the first portions of the first set of the color signals. Predetermined subordinate parts of the second set of the color signals are calculated from predetermined second portions of the first set of the color signals and the calculation coefficients according to an interpolation. The determined main parts of the second set of the color signals and the calculated subordinate parts of the second set of the color signals are combined into a whole of the second set of the color signals. The calculation coefficients are designed so that, if the color signals in the first set vary by equal values, achromatic color data which results from the calculation lies on an achromatic color axis in a color space defined with respect to the readout data of the main parts of the second set of the color signals, and that the sum of squared errors of color conversion is minimized.
Abstract:
A frame of photographic film is optoelectronically scanned after development to produce an electronic image which is analayzed to determine the exposure and development conditions of the film. Tone conversion signals are generated in accordance with the analyzed conditions to convert the tone characteristics of the electronic image to optimal values and thereby compensate for non-standard exposure and development. The electronic image of the entire frame, or alternatively only a part of the electronic image corresponding to an unexposed area of the frame, may be used to determine the development conditions.
Abstract:
An image pickup device comprises an image pickup tube having a target scanned by an electron beam and a pair of electrodes which form a collimation, a voltage applying circuit for respectively applying predetermined voltages for forming the collimation to the collimation forming electrodes of the image pickup tube, and a correction voltage applying circuit for applying a correction voltage which varies the voltage ratio of the collimation forming electrodes to one of the collimation forming electrodes, upon scanning of the peripheral parts of an effective scanning surface of the target by the electron beam. The collimation is formed responsive to a voltage ratio of the voltages applied to each of the collimation forming electrodes and changed in response to the correction voltage.
Abstract:
A view-finder is used for a television camera which has an image pick-up device for picking up an image of an object responsive to incident light from the object. The television camera comprises an optical system for diverging a part of a light advancing from the object to the image pick-up device. The view-finder comprises a monochrome television picture receiving device which is supplied with an output signal of the image pick-up device and displays a monochrome picture image, and an optical system for composing the picture image of the monochrome television picture receiving device and an optical color image formed by the light diverged by the diverging optical system to form an optical image to be observed.
Abstract:
A color television signal generating apparatus comprises a color-resolving striped filter, in a camera tube, for separating the output signal of the camera tube into required signals. Detecting means detects the envelopes of specific positive wave and negative wave signals thus separated. The output of the camera tube is a superimposed signal of a direct wave signal containing signals of three primary colors, of additional mixed colors, and a high-band component signal comprising a group of modulated color signals. This camera output signal results from the amplitude modulation of a carrier wave responsive to filter stripes in the color-resolving striped filter. The carrier wave components have a high harmonic relation relative to two primary color signals. The separating means comprises first separating means for separating the direct signal from the above mentioned superimposed signal and second separating means for separating the high-band component signal. The envelope detecting means comprises a first detector for producing a demodulated output signal in accordance with an envelope resulting from a successive connection of peak values of the positive wave of the thus separated high-band component signal. A second envelope detection means produces a demodulated output signal in accordance with an envelope resulting from a successive connection of peak values of the negative wave of the thus separated high-band component signal.