APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL MOTION PICTURE CAMERA AND RECORDER

摘要

An apparatus and method to produce a series of color images including an optical assembly (12) for receiving a visual image (19). The optical assembly (12) directs the visual image (19) to a first sensor (22) and a second sensor (24). The first sensor (22) is a high resolution monochrome digital sensor and the second sensor is a lower resolution color digital sensor. These two sensors produce a succession of frames at the same rate. The succession of frames are encrypted with a frame number and a time code. The two succession of frames are stored in a frame buffer (38). The color frame can be edited by a human operator using an editor (14) for resulting a list of monochrome frames, which are automatically edited in accordance with edited color frames by using the frame number and time code. The contents of the frame buffer (38) can be transferred to a mass storage device (50). The frame buffer (38) can also be transferred to a color rendering processor (44) for producing a composite image from the monochrome frames and the color frames.