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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1984
Kiyotsugu Ishikawa, Takatsuki, JP;
Tohru Takamura, Takatsuki, JP;
Yoshiaki Sone, Toyonaka, JP;
Susumu Hashimoto, Moriyama, JP;
Masao Hiramoto, Katano, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A color filter is constituted by unit arrays of two columns and four rows of filter elements. The first column has cyan, magenta, cyan, and green (or green, yellow, green and cyan) filter elements which are arranged in that order and the second column has yellow, green, yellow, and magenta (or magenta, cyan, magenta and yellow filter elements which are arranged in that order. A solid state image apparatus having an expanded dynamic range is realized by using this color filter in that the dynamic range of the photoelectric elements corresponding to the green filter elements can be utilized more efficiently.