Patent ID: 8384825

Claim:
A video image transfer device for acquiring, from at least one image pickup device, a plurality of video signals of different imaging areas, and outputting the plurality of video signals to a display device, so that the display device will simultaneously display the video signals as a plurality of video images, the video image transfer device comprising: a transfer section arranged to selectively transfer to the display device the plurality of video signals acquired from at least the one image pickup device; an assigning section arranged to divide a refresh rate of the display device into different portions and assign the different portions to respective ones of the plurality of video images; a transfer controller arranged to control the transfer section in such a manner that each of the video signals is transferred to the display device at a timing according to the portion of the refresh rate assigned to the video image corresponding to each of the video signals; and the assigning section is arranged to alter how much of the refresh rate is assigned to each of the video images; wherein the assigning section is arranged to obtain condition information indicating a state of motion of the at least one image pickup device and to, according to the obtained condition information, alter how much of the refresh rate is assigned to each of the plurality of video signals.