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Solid state television camera

CA 1106488 A · Owner: Sony Corporation · Inventors: Nishimura, Toshimichi; Nagumo, Fumio; Yamanaka, Seisuke

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A solid state television camera having a solid state image sensing device and an optical color filter. The color separating characteristics of the color filter are so selected that when a predetermined horizontal scanning line is scanned the solid state image sensing device produces a standard red color signal and a luminance signal sequentially and alternately and when an adjacent horizontal line is scanned a blue color, signal and luminance signal are produced in the same manner. In this way different color difference output signals are simultaneously obtained at every horizontal scanning line and, based upon the color difference output signals and luminance signal, there is produced …

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  • Granted August 4, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 4, 1998.
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FiledSeptember 12, 1977
GrantedAugust 4, 1981
Term endedAugust 4, 1998
Patent numberCA 1106488 A
Classification (IPC)H04N9/04

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1978198119841987199019931996Application filedSep 12, 1977Patent grantedAug 4, 1981Term endedAug 4, 1998

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