SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA PROVIDED WITH SUCH AN IMAGING DEVICE

摘要

The invention relates to a charge-coupled imaging device whose width/height ratio is adjustable in that a number of columns situated in two strips on either side of the sensor are not used. The charge generated in these column s is placed in the horizontal output register simultaneously with the active information which is to be used, and is drained off in the flyback time between consecutive active line times through the or an output of the output register. Since the said non-active strips are situated on either side of the sensor, the location of the centre of the active portion of the matrix is fixed, independent of whether the information from the said strips is or is not used, so that in every state of the sensor this centre coincides with th e optical centre of the optical system used.