THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 1920X1080 PIXEL COLOR CCD CAMERA PROGRESSIVELY SCANNED AT 60 FRAMES PER SECOND

A progressively scanned video camera using two 1920 x 1080 charge-coup le device (CCD) sensors (made by Eastman Kodak) with square pixels in a 16:9 aspect ratio is under development. One sensor does not have col or filters and the other has color stripe filters. Detail luminance is derived from one sensor; color and low-resolution luminance is derive d from the other. The camera output is progressively scanned at 60 fra mes/sec. If digitized, the output bit rate would be 2.4 Gbit/sec. Cons equently, subband coding will be used to compress the output to a bit stream that can be recorded on a D-1 or D-5 digital video recorder and still have enough ''head room'' for post-production processing. This paper will report on the status of the camera development and describe the options for providing good motion rendition without interlace art ifacts by using progressive scan.