1- Mfps 300-kpixel Ultrahigh-speed Single-chip Color Camera

Abstract

We have developed an ultrahigh-speed, high-sensitivity broadcast camera that is capable of capturing clear, smooth slow-motion videos even where lighting is limited, such as at professional baseball games played at night. First, we developed an ultrahigh-speed broadcast color camera using three 80,000-pixel ultrahigh-speed, high-sensitivity CCDs. This camera had about ten times the sensitivity of standard high-speed cameras, and enabled an entirely new style of presentation for sports broadcasts and science programs.

  In this paper, we discuss our experimental development aimed at improving the resolution of ultrahigh-speed camera even further: a new ultrahigh-speed high-sensitivity CCD that increases the number of pixels four-fold to 300,000 pixels, and a single-chip color camera mounting this CCD.