Solid state color imaging apparatus
CA 1082353 A · Owner: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Nakabe, Ryuhei; Ohta, Yoshio; Matsuura, Toshiro
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Solid state color imaging apparatus for producing a color video signal representing an optical image of an object. In this apparatus plural sets of lines of photosensitive elements are arranged repeatedly in a vertical scanning direction, each of which photosensitive element lines consists of a plurality of photosnesitive elements distributed in a line in a horizontal scanning direction. Charge signals are read out from the sets of photosensitive element linen at a time in each horizontal scanning period and a set of output signals is processed to produce the color video signal.
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- Granted July 22, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 22, 1997.
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