Patent ID: 7034875
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera comprising: an input unit for receiving photographing commands; a CCD imaging unit, including a plurality of CCDs, for outputting electric signals according to incident light; a memory for storing the electric signals output from the CCD imaging unit; and a controller for reading the electric signals, which are accumulated in each CCD element of the CCD imaging unit by the incident light when a photographing command is input from the input unit, in raw data state, for recording the read electric signals in the memory according to fields, and for composing a still image by adding offset values to the raw data of both an odd field and an even field recorded in the memory, and wherein the controller records each horizontal line of the odd field and the even field so that they have alternating addresses in the memory and reads each CCD signal value of the odd field and each CCD signal value of the even field respectively in sequence from the memory, and adds offset values to the read odd field CCD signal values and the read even field CCD signal values so as to form at least one of a second odd field and a second even field by utilizing average values of the even field CCD signal values and the odd field CCD signal values.