Patent ID: 7053934

Claim:
A video camera apparatus comprising: a solid-state image sensor for outputting an image sensing signal in an interlace scan mode or a progressive scan mode; image sensing signal processing means supplied with the image sensing signal from the solid-state image sensor; scan converter means supplied with the image sensing signal from the image sensing signal processing means, for converting the image sensing signal read out from the solid-state image sensor in the progressive scan mode, into an interlace scan signal; display means for displaying said interlace scan signal; control means for performing control of switching an input to recording means, in correspondence with an operation mode of the solid-state image sensor; recording means for recording the image sensing signal read out from the solid-state image sensor in the interlace scan mode, directly onto a recording medium, and for converting the image sensing signal read out from the solid-state image sensor in the progressive scan mode, into an interlace scan signal, by the scan converter means, and then recording the interlace scan signal onto the recording medium; setting means for setting the progressive scan mode by a control signal supplied from a camera control microprocessor where a timing signal generator generates a sensor gate signal of two fields equivalent to one frame cycle, a vertical transfer clock of one horizontal scan cycle and a horizontal transfer clock of a frequency corresponding to the number of pixels on a horizontal line; and setting means for setting the interlace scan mode by a control signal supplied from the camera control microcomputer where the timing signal generator generates a sensor gate signal at one field cycle, two continuous vertical transfer clocks for every one horizontal scanning period and a horizontal transfer clock at a frequency corresponding to the number of pixels in one scanning line.