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Compatible wide-screen television system camera

US4683498A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 21, 1986
Grant dateJul 28, 1987
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Expiry dateApr 21, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/11
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A solid-state imager for a television camera which generates a compatible wide-screen signal, i.e., a wide-screen signal with compressed left and right edge portions for each television line. The solid-state imager includes photosensitive picture elements (pixels) which are nonuniformly distributed in each row of the imager in accordance with the amount of compression desired in the left and right edge portions of the signal.

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