IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE AND SYNCHRONIZATION-SIGNAL-GENERATING DEVICE
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Abstract
An image signal generation portion 11 generates an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. A signal generation control portion 24 drives the image signal generation portion 11 and generates image pick-up setting information IF to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with a generated image signal DVd. The generated image signal DVd is output in condition where the image pick-up setting information IF is inserted in it. When supplied with image pick-up setting information IFex, the signal generation control portion 24 controls the driving operations of the image signal generation portion 11 based on the image pick-up setting information IFex, to frame-synchronize the generated image signal with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image of a source that has supplied the image pick-up setting information IFex. If a plurality of image pick-up devices capable of varying a frame rate is used, the image signals can be frame-synchronized with each other.
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23 Claims
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18. Image pick-up apparatus for generating an output image signal of variable frame rate to which a variable frame rate output image signal of another image pick-up device can be synchronized, said image pick-up apparatus comprising:
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an image pick-up signal generator for generating an image signal of a settable frame-rate; drive-and-control means for driving and controlling the image pick-up signal generator and to set the frame rate of the generated image signal; frame rate information generation means for generating frame rate information associated with said set frame rate of the image signal generated by the image pick-up signal generator to vary the frame rate of said image signal as a function of said frame rate information; and output means for outputting the image signal whose frame rate has been varied as a function of said frame rate information and for outputting said frame rate information. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. Image pick-up apparatus for generating an output image signal of variable frame rate that is synchronized with another image signal having a variable reference frame rate, said image pick-up apparatus comprising:
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an image pick-up signal generator for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate; and drive-and-control means for receiving frame rate information indicating said reference frame rate, and driving the image pick-up signal generator based on said received frame rate information to generate said output image signal whose frame rate is controlled by said received frame rate information to frame-synchronize the image signal generated by the image pick-up signal generator with the image signal having the reference frame-rate. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. Image pick-up apparatus for generating an output image signal of variable frame rate to which a variable frame rate output image signal of another image pick-up device can be synchronized, said image pick-up apparatus comprising:
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an image pick-up signal generator that generates an image signal of a settable frame-rate; a controller driving and controlling the image pick-up signal generator and to set the frame rate of the generated image signal; a frame rate information generation unit that generates frame rate information associated with said set frame rate of the image signal generated by the image pick-up signal generator to vary the frame rate of said image signal as a function of said frame rate information; and an output unit that outputs the image signal whose frame rate has been varied as a function of said frame rate information and for outputting said frame rate information.
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