Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Syouichi Ieoka

Shinji Yamashita

Katsuyuki Saito

Masahiko Sasaki

Akinobu Uchikubo

Takehiro Nakagawa

Masao Uehara

Akirhiro Miyashita

An object of the present invention is to provide an image freezing signal-processing apparatus capable of eliminating a necessity of using a large number of memories, reducing a time lag and preventing an image deviation. Sequence signals for R, G and B are stored in a first memory via an A/D converter and as well as the same are supplied to a movement detection/control circuit so that an image which displays the minimum about of movement in a predetermined time passed from the freeze signal is read from the first memory so as to be written to a still picture memory. The movement detection/control circuit stops the movement detection operation in a case where the image which displays a small amount of movement is stored in the still picture memory so as to transmit the image stored in the still picture memory as a still picture in a state in which updating is inhibited. In a case where an image which displays a small amount of movement is not stored, an image which displays the minimum amount of movement in a predetermined time is transmitted as a still picture.

Image freezing signal-processing apparatus

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Takahama, Japan

Syouichi Ieoka