Patent ID: 8169519

Claim:
A method of reducing motion blur in a moving charge-coupled device (CCD), comprising: integrating and shifting signal charges from successive exposures on the CCD, wherein the CCD physically moves in the direction of a leading edge of the CCD between successive exposures and wherein a duration of each exposure is a fraction of a total exposure time based on a rate at which the CCD physically moves; accumulating the signal charges from the successive exposures in storage lines of the CCD, wherein the signal charges from the successive exposures are accumulated with corresponding previous signal charges from the same scene and wherein the integrating and shifting cause signal charges from corresponding successive exposures of the same scene to be accumulated in the same storage units in the storage lines of the CCD; shifting the accumulated signal charges from the storage lines to a serial shift register; and outputting the signal charges from the serial shift register to form a digital image.