Image-pickup apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorKaoru Kotoda
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Abstract
Image-pickup sections and an image-communicating/processing section 138 are connected by a single bus. Following the output of the image data, an output-controlling section in one of the image-pickup sections outputs an image-data-ending pattern, which indicates the end of outputting the image data, to a bus. An ending-pattern-detecting section in another image-pickup section detects the image-data-ending pattern, and outputs an image-pickup-operation-starting signal. The another image-pickup section starts an image-pickup operation and output of the image data based on the image-pickup-operation-starting signal.
Claims7
An image-pickup apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image-pickup units including at least first and second image-pickup units each for picking up an image, producing and outputting image data;
- an image-processing unit for performing a predetermined data process on the image data;
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- a bus for connecting the first and second image-pickup units to the image-processing unit, wherein
- the first image-pickup unit has an image-data-ending-pattern-outputting unit for outputting an image-data-ending pattern, which indicates the end of outputting the image data, to the bus, and
- the second image-pickup unit has an image-data-processing-ending-pattern-detecting unit for detecting the image-data-ending pattern output from the first image-pickup unit so that pick up of the image and output the image data start when the image-data-ending pattern is detected by the image-data-processing-ending-pattern-detecting unit.
An image-pickup apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image-pickup units including at least first and second image-pickup units each for picking up an image, and producing and outputting image data;
- an image-processing unit for performing a predetermined data process on the image data;
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- a bus for connecting the first and second image-pickup units to the image-processing unit, wherein
- the first image-pickup unit further has an image-data-starting-pattern-outputting unit for outputting an image-data-starting pattern, which indicates the start of outputting the image data, to the bus,
- the image-processing unit further has:
- an image-data-starting-pattern-detecting unit for detecting the image-data-starting pattern output from the first image-pickup unit;
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- an image-processing-ending-pattern outputting unit for outputting the image-processing-ending pattern, which indicates the end of the data process, to the bus in synchronization with the timing of ending the data process,
- the second image-pickup unit further has the image-data-processing-ending-pattern-detecting unit for detecting an image-processing-ending pattern from the bus,
- the second image-pickup unit starts the pickup of an image and outputting of the image data when the image-processing-ending pattern is detected by the image-data-processing-ending-pattern-detecting unit, and
- the image-processing unit starts processing the image data when the image-data-starting pattern is detected by the image-data-starting-pattern-detecting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.