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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:
Oct. 05, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/262 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/262 ;
Abstract
In a case that a zooming magnification is less than 2 times, the switch (SW) is connected to the terminal “a” and a zooming process in the horizontal direction is performed when reading out from the line memory ( ) in conjunction with performing the zooming process in the vertical direction in the CCD ( ). Further, in a case that the zooming magnification is more than 2 times, the switch (SW) is connected to the terminal “b” and the zooming process in the horizontal direction is performed with combining occasions when reading out from the memory ( ) and reading out from the line memory ( ) in conjunction with performing the zooming process in the horizontal direction when reading out from the memory ( ).