Re: Can CCD camera output more than just intensity information of image?

walala wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am curious about how CCD works to pick up images... more specifically, I
> wonder CCD camera can output more than just pixel intensity information of
> an image? For example, I want to know the "variation" property of a block
> of an image, for example, a 8x8 block... roughly classified into "smooth"
> block and "non-smooth" block, two classes...
>
> I want to know if CCD can judge this very roughly and output some currents
> to indicate this? Anagolous to human eyes, human eyes can tell which part
> of the image is "highly non-smooth" at one glance... can CCD do that?


You'd be better off just doing some image processing in software than
expecting it to come as part of the hardware for a camera.

Ben
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