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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2013
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Hidenori Hashimoto, Sagamihara, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device for picking up an image of an object; a reception portion that is provided in a processor including a signal processing portion processes an image signal obtained by picking up the object with the image pickup device, and that receives a first synchronization signal generated in a first synchronization signal generation portion and is transmitted through a cable; a calculation portion that sequentially detects a plurality of periods of the first synchronization signal that the reception portion receives, and carries out processing to perform a calculation that determines an average value of the detected plurality of periods of the first synchronization signal; and a second synchronization signal generation portion that generates a second synchronization signal taking a value based on a calculation result of the calculation portion as a period, and supplies the second synchronization signal to the image pickup device.