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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1981
Fumio Nagumo, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Asaida, Atsugi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solidstate digital television camera which has a solid state image sensing device, an A-D converter for converting the output of the image sensing device to a digital color signal, a filter for providing a predetermined filter characteristic to the digital color signal, and a digital color modulator for modulating the output of the above filter to produce a digital modulated signal. In the digital television camera, the processing rate between the solid state image sensing device and the filter is selected to have a sampling rate equal to that of the solid state image sensing device, or (n/m)pF.sub.sc where f.sub.sc is a color subcarrier frequency, p is 3 or 4, and m and n are relatively small integers. The processing rate for the remaining elements is selected to be pf.sub.sc. In addition, a D-D converter for converting the processing rate from (n/m)pF.sub.sc to pf.sub.sc is provided between the filter and the digital modulator. Thus, the digital television camera can be operated at a relatively slow sampling drive rate and can be constructed from integrated circuits.