Apparatus and method for digital camera and record

专利名称：Apparatus and method for digital camera

and recorder having a high resolution colorcomposite image output

发明人：John Patrick Beckett申请号：US08/657607申请日：19960531公开号：US05852502A公开日：19981222

摘要：The present invention provides an apparatus and method for producing seriesof high resolution color composite images. The digital camera has an optical assemblythat directs visual images to a high resolution monochrome sensor and a lower

resolution color sensor. These two sensors, which produce a succession of frames at thesame rate, are encrypted with a frame number and time code and are stored in a framebuffer. The contents of the frame buffer can be transferred to a mass storage device, ora color rendering processor that produces a composite image from the monochromeframes and color frames. During the processing of the composite image, the

monochrome grayscale value becomes the composite frame grayscale value, the colorframe hue value becomes the composite frame hue value, and the color frame saturationvalue becomes the composite frame saturation value. Alternatively, the monochromeframe grayscale value can be used to affect the composite frame hue and saturationvalues, or the composite frame hue and saturation values can be mapped from the colorframe hue and saturation pixel linearly or non- linearly.

申请人：AMERICAN DIGITAL IMAGING, INC.

代理机构：Presseisen & Reidelbach, PLC

代理人：Charles F. Reidelbach, Jr.

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