Image pickup apparatus and method, image processing apparatus and method, image display system, recording medium and program

An image processing apparatus for processing image signals to be displayed by n image display apparatus or one image display apparatus having n display processing sections, comprising:

• a storage section for storing the image signals having a first frame rate of m Hz;
• an output control section for controlling outputting of the image signals stored in said storage section;
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• a display control section for controlling display of images corresponding to the image signals whose outputting is controlled by said output control section;
• said output control section controlling outputting of the image signals of the first frame rate so that the image signals are successively outputted for each one frame from said storage section to said n image display apparatus or said n display processing sections;
• said display control section controlling the display of the images corresponding to the image signals so that the image signals successively outputted to said n image display apparatus or said n display processing sections by said output control section are successively drawn dot-sequentially or line-sequentially in phases successively displaced by 1/m×n of a scanning time period of one frame so that the images are displayed on said image display apparatus at a second frame rate equal to n times the first frame rate.

An image processing method for an image processing apparatus for processing image signals to be displayed by n image display apparatus or one image display apparatus having n display processing sections, comprising:

• an output control step of controlling outputting of the image signals having a first frame rate of m Hz;
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• a display control step of controlling display of images corresponding to the image signals whose outputting is controlled by the process at the output control step;
• the output control step controlling outputting of the image signals of the first frame rate so that the image signals are successively outputted for each one frame to said n image display apparatus or said n display processing sections;
• the display control step controlling the display of the images corresponding to the image signals so that the image signals successively outputted to said n image display apparatus or said n display processing sections by the process at the output control step are successively drawn dot-sequentially or line-sequentially in phases successively displaced by 1/m×n of a scanning time period of one frame so that the images are displayed on said image display apparatus at a second frame rate equal to n times the first frame rate.

A program for causing a computer to execute processing of image signals to be displayed by n image display apparatus or one image display apparatus having n display processing sections, comprising:

• an output control step of controlling outputting of the image signals having a first frame rate of m Hz;
• and
• a display control step of controlling display of images corresponding to the image signals whose outputting is controlled by the process at the output control step;
• the output control step controlling outputting of the image signals of the first frame rate so that the image signals are successively outputted for each one frame to said n image display apparatus or said n display processing sections;
• the display control step controlling the display of the images corresponding to the image signals so that the image signals successively outputted to said n image display apparatus or said n display processing sections by the process at the output control step are successively drawn dot-sequentially or line-sequentially in phases successively displaced by 1/m×n of a scanning time period of one frame so that the images are displayed on said image display apparatus at a second frame rate equal to n times the first frame rate.

An image display system, comprising:

• an image processing apparatus for processing image signals;
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• an image display apparatus for displaying images corresponding to the image signals processed by said image processing apparatus;
• said image processing apparatus including a storage section for storing the image signals having a first frame rate of m Hz, an output control section for controlling outputting of the image signals stored in said storage section, and a display control section for controlling display of images corresponding to the image signals whose outputting is controlled by said output control section;
• said image display apparatus including at least n image display processing sections for drawing the images dot-sequentially or line-sequentially and a display section for displaying the images drawn by said image display processing sections;
• said output control section controlling outputting of the image signals of the first frame rate so that the image signals are successively outputted for each one frame from said storage section to said n image display processing sections;
• said display control section controlling the display of the images corresponding to the image signals so that the image signals successively outputted to said n image display processing sections by said output control section are successively drawn dot-sequentially or line-sequentially in phases successively displaced by 1/m×n of a scanning time period of one frame so that the images are displayed on said image display apparatus at a second frame rate equal to n times the first frame rate.

An image display system, comprising:

• an image processing apparatus for processing image signals;
• and
• an image display apparatus for displaying images corresponding to the image signals processed by said image processing apparatus;
• said image processing apparatus including a storage section for storing the image signals having a first frame rate of m Hz, an output control section for controlling outputting of the image signals stored in said storage section, and a display control section for controlling display of images corresponding to the image signals whose outputting is controlled by said output control section;
• said image display apparatus including at least n image display processing sections for drawing the images dot-sequentially or line-sequentially;
• said output control section controlling outputting of the image signals of the first frame rate so that the image signals are successively outputted for each one frame from said storage section to said n image display processing sections;
• said display control section controlling the display of the images corresponding to the image signals so that the image signals successively outputted to said n image display processing sections by said output control section are successively drawn dot-sequentially or line-sequentially in phases successively displaced by 1/m×n of a scanning time period of one frame so that the images are displayed on said image display apparatus at a second frame rate equal to n times the first frame rate.

An image pickup apparatus for picking up moving pictures, comprising:

• a distribution section for distributing light incoming through an optical lens to n directions;
• a first image pickup section for converting the light distributed by said distribution section into a signal having information of a plurality of colors to pick up images;
• a second image pickup section for converting the light distributed by said distribution section into a signal having luminance information to pick up an image;
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• an image information production section for combining the signals converted by said first image pickup section and having the color information and the signal converted by said second image pickup section and having the luminance information to produce image information.

An image pickup method for an image pickup apparatus for picking up moving pictures, comprising:

• a distribution step of distributing light incoming through an optical lens to n directions;
• an image pickup step of converting the light distributed by the process at the distribution step into a signal having information of a plurality of colors to pick up images and converting the light distributed by the process at the distribution step into a signal having luminance information to pick up an image;
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• an image processing step of combining the signals and having the color information and the signal having the luminance information to produce image information and both converted by the process at the image pickup step.

A program for causing a computer to execute a process of picking up moving pictures, comprising:

• a distribution step of distributing light incoming through an optical lens to n directions;
• an image pickup step of converting the light distributed by the process at the distribution step into a signal having information of a plurality of colors to pick up images and converting the light distributed by the process at the distribution step into a signal having luminance information to pick up an image;
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• an image processing step of combining the signals and having the color information and the signal having the luminance information to produce image information and both converted by the process at the image pickup step.