Image-capturing device for controlling a timing for generating of image-capture data and timing control circuit for controlling a timing for generating of image-capture

A timing control circuit comprising:

• a progress-information-acquiring circuit configured and arranged to acquire, from an image-data-generation section, progress information indicating progress of processing for generating image data, the image data indicating an image of a subject on the basis of image-capture data acquired from an image capture section, the image capture section being configured and arranged to capture an image of the subject and to generate image-capture data of frames representing single video frames, and the image-data-generation section being configured to carry out the processing for generating the image data;
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• an image capture control circuit configured and arranged to control, on the basis of the progress information, a timing for starting the generating of the image-capture data for the next frame in the image-capturing section,
• at a timing used as a reference for starting a process for generating image data on the basis of image-capture data of the next frame following a frame for which a process for generating the image data has started, the image capture control circuit determining, on the basis of the progress information, whether or not preparations are in order for starting processing for generating the image data corresponding to the next frame in the image-data-generation section, and, in the case that the preparations are not in order, waiting until the preparations are in order before outputting a vertical synchronization signal.