Image pickup device of the frame transfer type and image pickup arrangement using the same

摘要

An image pickup device of the frame transfer type having an image pickup array and a storage array each of which consists of a number of cells forming row and column, in which the number of cells in the horizontal direction of the storage array is twice or more times the number of cells in the horizontal direction of the image pickup array. This device has a switching apparatus for selectively transferring the information of each column of the image pickup array to one of a predetermined plurality of columns of the storage array.