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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:
Sep. 26, 1989
Filed:
May. 20, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hammam Elabd, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250578 ; 357 24 ; 357 30 ; 377 60 ; 35821325 ;
Abstract
A plurality of CCD imagers have their respective image registers arranged in side-by-side alignment respectively to receive contiguous portions of an image. The CCD imagers have respective field storage registers disposed on both sides of the arrayed image registers. The CCD imagers are operated with the direction of TDI operation relative to the positioning of the imager chosen such that a combined TDI operation in one direction is obtained for the plurality of CCD imagers.