摘要:
The resolution, frame rate, or both can be improved when imaging moving subjects in an imaging apparatus using a CMOS image sensor. The imaging apparatus has an image sensor having a two-dimensional array of pixels. Each of the pixels includes an element operable to produce an electric charge by photoelectrically converting light from an imaged subject and a part operable to accumulate the produced charge and output an accumulated charge or a signal representing the accumulated charge. The imaging apparatus also has an area control unit operable to define a specified area of the image sensor containing a plurality of pixels and an area density control unit operable to specify a density of pixels read from the specified area defined by the area control unit.
摘要:
A MOS image sensor and an imaging apparatus using this image sensor enable controlling sensor driving with a high degree of freedom using a simple control circuit design and minimal wiring lines. The light reception unit of the image sensor in this imaging apparatus is segmented into a plurality of areas and conventional shift registers are constructed in multiple layers, thus enabling controlling the multiple sensor areas by means of a relatively simple circuit design. The imaging apparatus can thus locally change exposure and imaging conditions in parts of a single frame. Problems due to underexposure and overexposure are thus suppressed, and images with a wide dynamic range can be captured.
摘要:
A video signal recording apparatus including a switching device for receiving a digital progressive scan TV signal having a frame cycle which is ½ of the frame cycle of an interlaced scan TV signal and switching the progressive scan TV signal frame by frame alternately; a coding device for performing high-rate coding of data corresponding to one frame of the progressive scan TV signal to the same code amount as obtained by high-rate coding of data corresponding to one frame including two successive fields of an interlaced scan standard-definition TV signal; and a recording device for recording the data processed with the high-rate coding in the same number of tracks as the data corresponding to one frame of the interlaced scan standard-definition TV signal.
摘要:
A video signal recording apparatus including a switching device for receiving a digital progressive scan TV signal having a frame cycle which is 1/2 of the frame cycle of an interlaced scan TV signal and switching the progressive scan TV signal frame by frame alternately; a coding device for performing high-rate coding of data corresponding to one frame of the progressive scan TV signal to the same code amount as obtained by high-rate coding of data corresponding to one frame including two successive fields of an interlaced scan standard-definition TV signal; and a recording device for recording the data processed with the high-rate coding in the same number of tracks as the data corresponding to one frame of the interlaced scan standard-definition TV signal.
摘要:
Data rates of a first video signal and a second video signal which are significantly different are converted to respective predetermined data rates, and both the video signals of one frame are divided into respective numbers of macro block. A ratio of the number of macro block of the first video signal to the number of macro block of the second signal is made to 1:n, where n is a natural number, and a ratio of the number of pixel in one macro block of a color difference signal of the first video signal to the number of pixel in one macro block of the color difference signal of the second video signal is made to 1:m, where m is a natural number. A ratio of the data rate of the color difference signal of the first video signal to the data rate of the color difference signal of the second video signal is made to 1:n.times.m and a ratio of a moving speed of a magnetic tape in the first video signal to a moving speed of the magnetic tape in the second video image is made to 1:n.
摘要:
In order to thin an input signal a second multiplexer is switched to output an output of a first adder and a third multiplexer is switched to output an output of a second adder, and a first multiplexer is alternatively switched at every line. A delay circuit memorizes the sum of the two preceding input signals, and the second adder outputs at every other line the sum of image data of a present line and the two preceding lines. To interpolate an input signal, the second multiplexer is switched to output the output of the delay circuit, the first multiplexer is alternatively switched to output either the input signal or the output of the second multiplexer, and the second multiplexer is alternatively switched to output either the output of the first adder or the output of the delay circuit. Thus, the delay circuit outputs at every other line the sum of the two preceding input signals. Because only one delay circuit is needed the size of the perpendicular thinning/interpolation circuit for an image signal is reduced.
摘要:
In a video signal digital magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus, an input image data array is rearranged into a different data array appropriate for data compression and then subjected to a data compression by variable length coding. The resulting data are rearranged after the data compression and then recorded sequentially onto a video track of a magnetic tape in the same order as that in the frame. In a high-speed playback mode, only the lower frequency component data is decoded every sync block, so that the data reproduced from one video track adjoin each other in the playback picture on the screen.
摘要:
A method for transmission of variable length code words is provided in which the variable length code words are allocated into a data storage field not only from the front end of the same but also from the rear end, whereby unwanted affection by transmission error will be minimized. A coding apparatus produces coded data of such a format that after different type video signals are divided into a common signal area and a not-common signal area, the coded data of the common signal area is allocated into one data storage field in a sequence from the front end of the same and the coded data of the not-common signal area is allocated in a reverse sequence from the rear end. Accordingly, such different video signals can successfully be decoded with a decoder designed for processing one particular video signal.
摘要:
An orthogonal transform coding device assembles sample values of the input signals and forms a large block. The large block is divided into a plurality of small blocks and the sample values are subjected to the orthogonal transform coding for every small block. A plurality of quantizers are provided for the orthogonal transformed components and the data amount after coding when the quantization performed by the respective quantizers is estimated, whereby the optimum quantizers are selected for the respective small blocks according to the estimated value.
摘要:
Provided is a moving picture coding device which makes it possible to suppress deterioration in coding efficiency caused by flickers occurring at a time of high-speed capturing under fluorescent lamp lighting or the like. A moving picture coding device which codes a plurality of pictures obtained by capturing an object, the moving picture coding device including: a luminance information acquisition unit which acquires luminance information which indicates a luminance level of light in an environment where the object is captured; and a coding unit which codes the pictures, using a prediction coding method in which a picture type is applied in the coding of the pictures according to a flicker state of the light obtained from the luminance information.