Patent ID: 8243172

Claim:
An image pickup system comprising: an image pickup section including an image pickup device for picking up an image of a subject; a signal processing section for signal-processing an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup device; a transmission path for transmitting the image pickup signal from the image pickup device to the signal processing section; a storage section for storing a correction value corresponding to a characteristic of the image pickup device or a characteristic of the transmission path, the correction value including amplification factor information for an amplifier circuit which amplifies the image pickup signal and phase information for correction of phases of sampling pulses of a correlated double sampling circuit which performs correlated double sampling processing on the image pickup signal; and a correction section for amplifying the image pickup signal which is signal-processed in the signal processing section, based on the amplification factor information included in the correction value stored in the storage section, and correcting the phases of the sampling pulses of the correlated double sampling circuit, based on the phase information included in the correction value.