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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1999
Masayuki Takezawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoichi Mizutani, Saitama, JP;
Hideki Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Ken Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihisa Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an imaging apparatus, an image is to be displayed in real-time on a finder. In the finder mode, a CCD interface thins out horizontal components of image data supplied from an image generating unit to one-third and also effects gamma correction etc to send the resulting image data to a camera DSP . The camera DSP effects data conversion and resolution conversion on the image data resulting from the thinning to convert the data into Y, Cb and Cr image data which is routed to a memory controller . The memory controller writes the image data in the image memory and reads out the data from the memory controller to route the read-out data over an image data bus to an NTSC/PAL encoder . The NTSC/PAL encoder converts the image data in resolution and further converts the image data into data of the NTSC or PAL system to route the resulting data to a finder.