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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1996
Gaku Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Kondo, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Nobuo Fukushima, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Masayoshi Sekine, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Sono, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Motohiro Ishikawa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yuji Koide, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.