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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2002
Ronald S. Cok, Rochester, NY (US);
David J. Williams, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A self-illuminating solid-state color image capture device, includes: an array of light emitting elements and light sensing elements formed on a common substrate; the light emitting elements including first color elements adapted to emit light of a first color and second color elements adapted to emit light of a second color, and the light sensing elements being responsive to all emitted colors; and electronics coupled to the light emitting and light sensing elements for sequentially causing the first and second color elements to emit light and sensing the light reflected from a scene being captured with the light sensing elements.