Patent ID: 6204879
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An imaging display system for transmitting picture information acquired by an imaging apparatus to a display apparatus and displaying a picture corresponding to the transmitted picture information on said display apparatus, wherein said imaging apparatus includes:an X-Y addressing type solid-state imaging device;an imaging device driving means for driving said solid-state imaging device so that pixels in a whole image area of said solid-state imaging device are thinned at a thinning ratio of 1/n(where n is a positive integer) in order to scan specific pixels alone, the specific pixels that are an object of a scan are orderly and regularly shifted frame by frame, and information of all pixels in the whole image area is output during one cycle composed of n frames; anda transmitting means for transmitting picture information output from said solid-state imaging device and thinned at a thinning ratio of 1/n to said display apparatus.