Patent ID: 6765616
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An electric camera comprising:a color filter to pass first, second and third colors respectively arranged to cyclically appear horizontally at three-pixel interval and to pass the same colors arranged vertically; an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system; a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of every K pixels to produce a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to the number of effective scanning lines M, K being at least one of integers equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M; a signal processing unit to generate image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device; and a display unit with the display screen of the television system to display an image corresponding to the output signals; wherein said driver vertically mixes or culls signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of every K1 pixels, when first images are displayed on said display unit, wherein said driver vertically mixes or culls signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of every K2 pixels, when second images are displayed on said display unit, and wherein a value of K1 is different from a value of K2.