The Development of a 1920 × 1080 Pixel Color CCD Camera Progressively Scanned at 60 Frames per Second
William E. Glenn, John W. Marcinka · SMPTE Journal · 1997
A progressively scanned video camera using two 1920 times 1080 charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors (made by Eastman Kodak) with square pixels in a 16:9 aspect ratio is under development. One sensor does not have color filters and the other has color stripe filters. Detail luminance is derived from one sensor; color and low-resolution luminance is derived from the other. The camera output is progressively scanned at 60 frames/sec. If digitized, the output bit rate would be 2.4 Gbits/sec. Consequently, subband coding will be used to compress the output to a bit stream that can be recorded on a D-l or D-5 digital video recorder and still have enough “head room” for post-production processing. This paper will report on the status of the camera development and describe the options for providing good motion rendition without interlace artifacts by using progressive scan.