
A sensor element is a
photosite.
In a "one-chip" camera, hardware
or firmware performs spatial inter-
polation to reconstruct/?, G, and
B ^~- ^ ^ _I_ -~---
~L ~ phuLu~ite. In a "three-
chip" camera, the dichroic filters
are mounted on one or two glass
blocks. In optical engineering, a
glass block is called a prism, but it
is not the prism that separates the
colors, it is the dichroic filters.
drive the display. Consider these display primaries:
monochromatic red at 600 nm, monochromatic green
at 550 nm, and monochromatic blue at 470 nm. The
3• matrix of Equation 22.2 can