Image analysis system

An image analysis system comprising:

• an input terminal for accepting an image signal in analog form;
• an image input unit connected to said input terminal for analog-to-digital conversion for said image signal;
• a frame identification designator connected to said image input unit for supplying frame identification to each image frame at an output of said image input unit;
• a plurality of image processing units connected to said frame identification designator, each image processing unit having a capability to process an image frame which has a specific frame identification determined in each image processing unit, and said plurality of image processing units operating in one of three modes of operation consisting of a) each of the image processing units concurrently inputting the same image frame and each image processing unit processing the image frame differently from one another, b) each of the image processing units sequentially inputting a different one of input image frames and each image processing unit processing the input image frame in a same manner and c) the plurality of image processing units are grouped into a plurality of groups and image frames processed in each group are a mixture of concurrently and sequentially processed as described in a) and b);
• and
• a control means connected to said image processing units for controlling each image processing unit,
• each of said image processing units includes
• a frame identification selector for selecting said image frame selectively so that a specific image frame, having a frame identification equal to an identification determined in each image processing unit, is selected, and
• an image processing module for carrying out image analysis for said image frame selected by said frame identification selector.