1920 X 1080 PIXEL COLOR CAMERA WITH A PROGRESSIVE SCAN OUTPUT AT 60 FRAMES SEC/

A high-definition camera has been developed that produces color images with 1920 x 1080 pixels progressively scanned at 60 frames/sec. The c amera uses two recently developed charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors made by Eastman Kodak Co. One sensor detects luminance detail and is p rogressively scanned at 30 frames/sec. The other has color stripe filt ers and is progressively scanned two lines at a time at 60 frames/sec. The second sensor is used to derive color and low resolution luminanc e. Because of the progressive scan, the vertical and horizontal resolu tion is 1000 TV lines per picture height. Motion rendition is excellen t. The sensor and processor are programmable so that all scan formats likely to be used in the near future can be produced by the camera.