Digital camera system for recording, editing and visualizing images

摘要

A digital camera system (20), as illustrated in FIG. 1, includes an optical assembly (22) to gather light (24) from a desired scene (26), a modular imaging subsystem (28) aligned with the optical assembly (22), and an image processing, recording and display subsystem (34).

主权项

1. A high definition digital camera system comprising:
an optical assembly for gathering light from a desired scene; a modular imaging sub-system comprising an imager including at least one array of pixels aligned with the optical assembly, wherein the array produces a minimum of 10-bits per pixel of color data, and a frame grabber capturing raw image data output from the imager on a selective continuous or intermittent basis and outputting a serial data rate of at least 48 megabytes per second of non-interpolated color filtered pixel data; and a modular processing sub-system receiving output from the frame grabber, wherein the modular processing sub-system further provides image processing and communication of the output from the frame grabber, and executes reprogrammable software to perform an image processing function for visualization, analysis, or storage; wherein light gathered by the optical assembly is received by the imager for generating and outputting raw image data at film or video rates.