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High-resolution CCD imagers using area-array CCD's for sensing spectral components of an optical line image

  • US 4,663,656 A
  • Filed: 03/16/1984
  • Issued: 05/05/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A television camera comprising:

  • a semiconductor imager having an image area register in which photosensing sites are arranged by row and by column, having a charge coupled device storage area register for periodically receiving successive rows of charge samples from said photosensing sites one row after another having an output register for receiving the charge samples of each successive row in parallel from said storage register and providing them in serial order, and having charge sensing circuitry coupled to said output register for converting each said successive row of charge samples provided in said serial order into a respective line of an output signal;

    means for acquiring radiation defining a line image;

    an optical filter system having spectrum-discriminating stripe filters; and

    means for projecting said line image through each stripe filter of said optical filter system at the same time, such that at least a segment of said line image which passes through each stripe filter is projected into said image register so as to impinge on a respective row of said image register, each respective row photosensing paid projected segment of said line image simultaneously.

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