摘要 |
A color separating prism is disclosed for use in an electronic imaging systems such as a video or digital still-image camera. The prism separates an incoming light beam into red, green and blue light components and directs the separated light components onto adjacent imaging sensors. Beam-splitting interfaces of the prism are optically configured to admit approximately ten to twenty percent of a violet light contained in the incoming light beam into the red color channel. The prism may beneficially be optically coupled to a light-rejecting filter or mirror which rejects undesired far-red, far-violet and blue-green components of the light beam. In this manner, the resultant red, green and blue channels approximate a set of substantially non-negative color matching functions to facilitate highly colorimetrically accurate color imaging and thereby reduce or eliminate the need for post-imaging color correction.
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