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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
Kazuo Ishimoto, Gifu, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Image information can be supplied from an image pickup apparatus to computer equipment at high speed. A solid state image pickup device is vertically driven by a vertical drive circuit and horizontally driven by a horizontal drive circuit . The vertical drive circuit operates at a given cycle in response to a vertical timing signal VT from a vertical timing control circuit which operates according to a frequency dividing clock DCK with a given cycle. The horizontal drive circuit operates in response to a horizontal timing signal HT from a horizontal timing control circuit to be driven in response to a transfer trigger TR which is supplied from the computer equipment. An exposure control circuit responds to a horizontal transfer flag HF which is supplied from the horizontal timing control circuit and determines timing for discharge driving excluding a period of the horizontal transfer drive.