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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1999
Fujio Okada, Omiya, JP;
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device for an endoscope which can restrain the flicker of a screen caused when converting the television system, and furthermore, which makes it possible to unify processor circuits performing the processing of different systems. Having an NTSC system oscillator and a PAL oscillator with an oscillating frequency of N·f , and a switching device for selecting them in a scope equipped with a CCD suitable for the number of scanning lines, for example, of the NTSC system, and it drives the CCD on the basis of a timing signal formed in each of the selected oscillators. That is, when the PAL system is selected, the picture data is taken out from the CCD by a horizontal synchronization signal with a frequency of 15.625 kHz (f ), and in a memory section on the processor side, write-in and read-out of the picture data are also performed by a horizontal synchronization signal with this frequency f , and therefore, difference between the write-in speed and the read-out speed becomes small, and the flicker of a screen is restrained.