| US 7,576,782 B2 | ||
| Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor | ||
| Motohiro Nakasuji, Kanagawa (Japan); Fumihiko Sudo, Kanagawa (Japan); Takashi Kameyama, Kanagawa (Japan); Katsumi Kaneko, Kanagawa (Japan); and Kazuyuki Marukawa, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 16, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/892,635. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2003-276806 (JP), filed on Jul. 18, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0036055 A1, Feb. 17, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—222.1 [348/333.01] | 12 Claims |
| 1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
imaging signal generating means for generating an imaging signal having a frame rate that is controlled to be variable;
monitor image signal generating means for generating a monitor image signal representing the same image as the image represented
by the imaging signal;
a user interface used for specifying a frame rate of the monitor image signal; and
control means for controlling operations of the imaging signal generating means and the monitor image signal generating means
on the basis of communication information from an external source and an instruction from the user interface,
wherein the control means (a) controls the frame rate of the monitor image signal by giving the instruction from the user
interface priority over the communication information, and (b) controls the frame rate of an output of the imaging signal
to the external source according to the communication information.
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