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From: mark@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim)
Subject: Re: full-frame-shutter-ccd-cameras for vision guided vehicles
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 22:24:05 GMT
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In article <1992Mar11.084554.1932@iitb.fhg.de>, str@iitb.fhg.de (Guenter Struck) writes:
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|> Are ccd-cameras available with a full-frame-shutter?
|> Is any company developping such a device?
...
|> Guenter Struck
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There is a company in NY (315 area code) called CIDTech, who have developed CID
technology (Charge Injected Device) instead of CCD.  One of the major
benefits is no blooming.  I believe they also do what you want, where
the entire image is stored in the CID cells and then read. (I'm not sure though).
They are marketing specifically toward the machine vision people so they
have some other nice things like being able to view smaller sections
of the screen quickly ie 1/2 the screen about twice as fast.

I've lost the documentation they sent me so all this is from memory (which
isn't that great...so...)

mark
mark@killdeer.stanford.edu
