Image sensor and electronic still camera with an addressable image pickup section and an analog product sum calculation section
First Claim
1. An image sensor, comprising:
- a control circuit for controlling an operation of said image sensor;
an image pickup section for detecting an image and non-destructively reading out picture element signals representing the image according to address signals supplied by said control circuit; and
a product sum calculation section for receiving said picture element signals selectively and successively read out from said image pickup section according to said address signals supplied by said control circuit, for multiplying the picture element signals by predetermined coefficients and for adding signals obtained by the multiplication to obtain an output picture element signal.
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Abstract
An electronic still camera wherein an image compression circuit can be simplified includes a lens system, a shutter, an image sensor and a processing circuit. A video signal for one frame outputted from the processing circuit in response to a shutter operation is written into a memory. A video signal read out from the memory is compressed in accordance with the JPEG system by an image compression circuit and then written into a memory card. The image sensor is constituted from an image pickup section and a product sum calculation section. A CMD image sensor capable of non-destructively reading out a picture signal is used as the image pickup section. The product sum calculation section performs DCT processing required for compression processing of the JPEG system. Since a detected image signal processed by DCT processing is obtained from the image sensor, DCT processing of the image compression circuit is unnecessary.
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10 Claims
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1. An image sensor, comprising:
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a control circuit for controlling an operation of said image sensor; an image pickup section for detecting an image and non-destructively reading out picture element signals representing the image according to address signals supplied by said control circuit; and a product sum calculation section for receiving said picture element signals selectively and successively read out from said image pickup section according to said address signals supplied by said control circuit, for multiplying the picture element signals by predetermined coefficients and for adding signals obtained by the multiplication to obtain an output picture element signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 10)
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6. An electronic still camera, comprising:
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a control circuit for controlling an operation of said electronic still camera; an image pickup section for detecting an image and non-destructively reading out picture element signals representing the image according to address signals supplied by said control circuit; a product sum calculation section for receiving said picture element signals selectively and successively read out from said image pickup section according to said address signals supplied by said control circuit, for multiplying the picture element signals by predetermined coefficients and for adding signals obtained by the multiplication to obtain an output picture element signal; compression means for compressing the output picture signal; and means for recording the compressed signal onto a recording medium. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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