US 7,532,241 B2
Image capture device with shift adjustment
Hideyuki Rengakuji, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 03, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/49,826.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-030828 (JP), filed on Feb. 06, 2004; and application No. 2005-023510 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2005/0190266 A1, Sep. 01, 2005
Int. Cl. H04N 5/225 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 348—262  [348/205; 348/312; 348/351; 348/231.3] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capture device comprising:
an image capture unit that captures optical images and outputs a video signal corresponding to the optical images;
a microphone unit that outputs an audio signal;
a first clock generating unit that generates a first clock using a first crystal oscillator;
a second clock generating unit that generates a second clock using a second crystal oscillator;
a first sampling unit that samples the video signal using the first clock;
a second sampling unit that samples the audio signal using the second clock;
a calculating unit that calculates a correction value for adjusting a shift between the first crystal oscillator and the second crystal oscillator; and
an adjusting unit that adjust a driving timing of the image capture unit using the correction value,
wherein the calculating unit calculates the correction value using a VSYNC pulse and a third clock, and
wherein the VSYNC pulse is synchronized with a vertical synchronization signal, and the third clock is used to count one period of the vertical synchronization signal.