Abstract: This invention is directed to an electronic gimbal system (10) which stabilizes a digital video image of a particular scene taken by a sensor which is under disturbance forces. The video image is stored as a two-dimensional array of pixel locations (12) and is applied to an address look-up calculator (14) along with a signal from an inertial sensor (16). The inertial sensor (16) determines the offset of the array of pixel locations from an inertial reference frame and adjusts the input array accordingly. In one particular implementation, the address look-up calculator (14) applies a bilinear interpolation to the pixel location in order to provide a weighted sum of pixel intensities for each offset pixel location.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit of a solid-state imaging device has an image pickup section formed by plural solid-state image sensors including a discrete pixel array. The solid state image sensor for green-color image pickup is arrayed in the image pickup section with a spatial shift equal to one half the pixel pitch from the solid-state image sensors for red-color image pickup and the solid-state image sensors for blue-color image pickup in accordance with the spatial pixel shifting method. An optical low-pass filter having a cut-off frequency equal to fs is provided on the front surfaces of these solid-state image sensors.