Patent ID: 6933963

Claim:
A television standard converter for an endoscope, comprising: an image pickup element drive circuit for driving an image pickup element based on an NTSC system; a video signal processing circuit for forming a video signal of an observed subject on the basis of an output signal of said image pickup element; a main memory for memorizing the video signal data acquired at a timing of the NTSC system in sequence; an auxiliary memory for memorizing the same video signal data stored in said main memory simultaneously; and a conversion circuit for converting a video signal of the NTSC system into a video signal of the other television standard, in which the video signal data is read from said main memory at a timing of the other television standard, and for the data in a period for which the writing of the next data overtakes the reading of the data from said main memory, the writing of the data into said auxiliary memory is inhibited, and the data is read from said auxiliary memory.