Abstract:
A solid pickup apparatus comprises a photo sensitive portion comprising photosensitive means and photosensitive transfer means for receiving a light including image information and generating respectively first signal charges and second signal charges therein corresponding to the image informations, the photosensitive transfer means mutually transferring the first and second signal charges, gate means for controlling the flow of said first signal charges of said photosensitive means to said photosensitive transfer means under transfer device control, drive control means for controlling the transference of the first and second signal charges in said photosensitive transfer means, and color filters covering the photosensitive portion. An electronic still camera comprises a solid pickup element having color filters for picking up an image of an object to generate color image signals in facial sequence, recording means for recording the color image signals in recording areas corresponding to the respective color image signals in accordance with the facial sequence, and playback means for simultaneously playing back color image signals recorded in the respective recording areas of the recording means.
Abstract:
A solid pickup apparatus comprises a photo sensitive portion comprising photosensitive means and photosensitive transfer means for receiving a light including image information and generating respectively first signal charges and second signal charges therein corresponding to the image informations, the photosensitive transfer means mutually transferring the first and second signal charges, gate means for controlling the flow of said first signal charges of said photosensitive means to said photosensitive transfer means under transfer device control, drive control means for controlling the transference of the first and second signal charges in said photosensitive transfer means, and color filters covering the photosensitive portion. An electronic still camera comprises a solid pickup element having color filters for picking up an image of an object to generate color image signals in facial sequence, recording means for recording the color image signals in recording areas corresponding to the respective color image signals in accordance with the facial sequence, and playback means for simultaneously playing back color image signals recorded in the respective recording areas of the recording means.
Abstract:
A method for compensating changes which would otherwise be produced in a video output signal when the shutter speed exceeds a certain value, even though the same light level of the received image is maintained on the image pickup. In one embodiment, the shutter speed and/or aperture setting are adjusted to compensate. The amplification factor of the output video signal can also be adjusted. In other embodiments, gamma correction is effected separately for each primary color signal to compensate for the changes which affect the color signals in different amounts as the shutter speed is increased.
Abstract:
The invention provides an image forming medium and method, and a recording and playback apparatus in which signals can be recorded on the medium sequentially, similar to a magnetic tape or the like, or simultaneously two dimensionally, similar to a photographic film. The recording medium includes a laminate formed on the surface of a semiconductor substrate having a conductive layer on the undersurface thereof. The laminate is formed of an oxide film, a nitrided film, a photoconductive semiconductor layer and a transparent conductive layer. For recording, an optical image is directed onto the transparent conductive layer while applying a predetermined potential between the transparent conductive layer and the conductive layer.
Abstract:
A still picture recording and reproduction apparatus in which a still picture imaged on a frame transfer CCD is recorded on a rotary magnetic disk and then read for display on a TV using interlace scanning with A-fields and B-fields, corresponding to odd and even numbered lines are separately read and then time expanded. The time expansion may be performed on reproducing from the magnetic disk or performed on recording on separate tracks of the disk in which case one of the fields is time delayed to make the two types of fields to be in phase.
Abstract:
A heat-mode recording material is disclosed. The material comprises a base which is overlaid with a recording layer made of a metal, semimetal or semiconductor containing at least hydrogen.
Abstract:
A solid state pickup system having improved color reproducibility characteristics involves using additional photodetector elements to produce color signals including wavelength components in areas of negative stimulus values. These color signals are subtracted from conventionally produced color signals, such conventionally produced color signals being incapable of representing the negative stimulus values. The algebraic difference between the color signals resulting from the subtraction operation results in a color signal adequately represented in a wider range of wavelength characteristics, including the negative stimulus values, thus greatly improving color reproducibility.
Abstract:
An electronic still camera wherein midway through an exposure the charge signals impressed by incident light on an imaging section are transferred to a storage array while the exposure continues. Corresponding signals on the imaging array and the storage arrays are differenced to form error signals which are added to or subtracted from the two original signals before they are combined.
Abstract:
A solid-state color imager comprised of a solid-state base comprised of a plurality of electrical switching elements arranged in sets of three having superimposed thereon a plurality of photosensor layers which can detect and absorb different colors of light. Each photosensitive layer is comprised of an upper transparent continuous electrode sublayer, a photoconductive sublayer, and a back mosaic electrode sublayer which is electrically connected to said base. When light strikes the outermost photosensitive layer, light of a particular color is absorbed, and in connection with said base, its presence is electrically detected and recorded. The unabsorbed light continues to travel and strike the next succeeding photosensor layer whereat another color of light is absorbed and detected. The unabsorbed light passing through the second photosensor layer strikes the innermost photosensor layer which detects the remaining light. The photosensor layers are electrically insulated from each other and the base and make possible detection of three separate colors of light such as blue, green and red without the use of multi-color filter arrays.
Abstract:
A noncrystalline silicon powder having excellent photoconductivity is described, comprising silicon and hydrogen, exhibiting an infrared absorption spectrum characterized by absorption peaks centered at about 2000 cm.sup.-1 and 630 cm.sup.-1, wherein the height of the absorbance peak at 2000 cm.sup.-1 is at least one-tenth the height of the peak centered at 630 cm.sup.-1, and exhibiting a spin density of not more than 10.sup.18 cm.sup.-3 determined by electron spin resonance spectroscopy; the noncrystalline silicon powder is used as highly efficient photoconductor in photoconductive compositions utilized for the production of electrophotographic photoreceptors.