LOW RESOLUTION VERIFIER FOR A STILL VIDEO IMAGE

Video imaging apparatus provides a relatively lower resolution verification image from a high resolution image sensor. By orienting a color filter array so that the luminance (green) elements are arranged in same-color stripes parallel to the horizontal scanning direction, the luminance elements may be subsampled for greater flexibility in generating the lower resolution image. A memory stores the discrete image signals from the image sensor and accesses the signals in two modes: a high resolution recording mode for addressing substantially all the image signals and a low resolution display mode for addressing only those signals from lines of same-color (green) filter elements. The low resolution addressing can be based on a variety of line sampling patterns corresponding to the line capability and horizontal resolution of a display device.