Advanced Camera Technologies for Broadcasting

by Hiroshi Shimamoto, Takayuki Yamashita, Misao Kubota, and Hirotaka Maruyama

Television is a way of getting information to the public. For example, news stories tell us what's happening around the world, and travel stories fascinate us with world heritage. In such situations, the television camera has the important task of capturing scenes clearly. A broadcasting camera is a high-end video camera, and NHK (the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has developed various cameras and supporting technologies. This article focuses on three applications and describes their camera and image-sensor technologies. READ FULL ARTICLE (login required) »