Charge coupled imager
CA 1068395 A · Owner: Rca Corporation · Inventors: Kosonocky, Walter F.
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The columns in known frame transfer type charge coupled device (CCD) image sensing arrays generally are spaced, center-to-center, a distance equal to the length of a stage in the C register. In the present array the center-to-center spacing of the columns is considerably reduced to obtain improved resolution in the row direction. The spacing is only 1/n'th of the length of each such C register stage, where n is the number of phases employed to operate the C register. The array is read out to the C register via a special electrode structure 1/n'th of a, row at a time, and the C register is read out in such a way that the row is reconstructed while being read from the C register. The special …
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- Granted December 18, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 18, 1996.
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