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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsGaku Watanabe, Kenichi Kondo, Nobuo Fukushima, Masayoshi Sekine, Koichi Sono, Motohiro Ishikawa, Yuji Koide
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In an image pickup system, an image pickup unit is connected to a computer which has a display device. In order to make a display by matching the characteristic of the image pickup unit with that of the display device, the image pickup unit is provided with a control part which is arranged to measure a signal processing speed of the computer, to compare the signal processing speed with an image pickup speed or a picked-up image data output speed of the image pickup unit and to vary an image pickup action or a picked-up image data output action of the image pickup unit according to a result of the comparison or according to an operation performed by an operator of the image pickup system.
An image pickup system composed of an image pickup unit for picking up an optical image to form an image signal and at least one external apparatus which is connected to said image pickup unit,
An image pickup unit, which is connected to an external signal processing apparatus, comprising:
A picked-up image signal processing apparatus, to which an image pickup unit including image pickup device for picking up an optical image to form an image signal is removably connected, comprising:
A method for controlling an image pickup unit for picking up an optical image to form a picked-up image signal, which is connected to an external signal processing apparatus, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.