Patent ID: 6972796

Claim:
An image pickup system for concurrently picking up a plurality of images and merging the images into an image for display, said image pickup system comprising: a plurality of image pickup devices each for performing image pickup according to an image quality parameter set therein to define image quality of a merged image; a display device for receiving image data from each of said image pickup devices, and merging the image data for display; and a control device for controlling each of said image pickup devices, wherein said control device comprises: determination means for determining whether the image quality of the merged image is consistent on said display device; and image quality control means for controlling, when said determination means determines the image quality is not consistent, the image quality parameter set in each of said image pickup devices so that the image quality of the merged image becomes consistent on said display device, wherein said image display quality control means selects the image quality parameter as at least one of sensibility and a number of pixels for said image pickup devices, and image cutout size, compression ratio, amplification ratio and color tint for merging in said display device.