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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Raymond T Bell, Middlesex, GB;
Christopher J Morcom, Surrey, GB;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358213 ;
Abstract
A CCD frame transfer image sensor wherein the effective integration period can be shortened by electrical means. The sensor comprises an image section having a first photo-sensitive portion of an array of CCD channels and a store section having a second light shielded portion of the array. Means are provided for controlling the potentials applied to the control electrodes of the array so as to transfer along the channels charge generated in the image section into a charge sink structure during one of the active line periods at a frequency outside the bandwidth of the output signal of the sensor.