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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2013
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Ono, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes first and second imaging units, a reading unit that reads pixel information from pixels set as a reading target in each of the first and second imaging units, a control unit that sets the pixels as the reading target in each of the first and second imaging units in a manner such that the pixel information is alternately read from the first and second imaging units by the reading unit, and controls timing of exposure processes in the first and second imaging units and timing of reading processes of the pixel information for the first and second imaging units by the reading unit, to be correlated with one another, a transmission unit that transmits the pixel information read from each of the first and second imaging units in a same transmission path, and an image processing unit that generates an image based on the pixel information.