- Industry: Consumer electronics
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Signal used to synchronize the line scan rate of the camera to an external source. Mostly used in B/W applications together with VD.
Industry:Consumer electronics
Capability of a camera to output less than its maximum number of horizontal lines, but at a higher rate. Unlike partial scanning, the lines output in high rate scanning are symmetrical about the optical sensor center. This means that there is normally no need to re-aim the camera when changing from normal to high rate scanning.
Industry:Consumer electronics
Number of equally spaced vertical black-to-white or white-to-black transitions that the camera is able to reproduce, divided by the aspect ratio (usually 4:3) to make a comparison between horizontal and vertical resolution easier. Usually expressed as TV lines per picture height. Indicates the amount of horizontal details that can be perceived. Horizontal resolution is limited by the number of pixels in one line and by the type of color filter used, if any.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A derivative of the HAD sensor that incorporates microscopic lenses mounted over each sensing pixel. Hyper HAD sensors have no perceptible smear and are nearly twice as sensitive as HAD sensors.
Industry:Consumer electronics
This function is useful in low light environments. With the IR cut filter removed, the sensitivity of the camera to IR illumination is increased.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A digital networked serial interface for high-speed data transmission. Available speeds are 200 and 400 Mb/s, and 800 Mb/s speed is planned in the near future. IEEE 1394 is an ideal interface between a computer and audio/video products because of its ability to transfer a real-time data stream at low cost, with high reliability and ease of use.
Industry:Consumer electronics
Scanning method in which half of the lines are scanned in one field (odd-numbered lines), and the other half are scanned in the next field (even-numbered lines). Thus adjacent lines of a complete picture (one frame) belong to successive fields. Interlaced scanning doubles the screen refresh rate as seen by the viewer and reduces flicker. At screen refresh rates significantly higher than the 25/30 frames/second used in TV systems, interlaced scanning may not be necessary.
Industry:Consumer electronics
AF (Auto Focus) mode is periodically switched ON, then OFF (fixed focus). The duration of the on and off intervals is separately adjustable.
Industry:Consumer electronics
An adjustable sized aperture in a camera lens that controls the amount of light reaching the imager. Compensates for changing lighting conditions. Iris control may be either manual or automatic, depending on the application and the type of camera. When iris is fixed, a variable electronic shutter can be used instead (CCD Iris).
Industry:Consumer electronics
In IT CCD technology, the charges on exposed pixels are transferred to light-shielded vertical readout zones embedded in the sensitive area. IT devices are simpler to manufacture and are therefore less costly than FT or FIT devices. Mostly used in industrial and consumer cameras.
Industry:Consumer electronics
