Patent ID: 7889238

Claim:
A multicamera system, comprising: a controller having a reset phase transmitting unit to transmit information showing a reset phase corresponding to a pixel count value in a frame synchronized with a sync reference signal to one or each of a plurality of image pickup apparatuses within a frame period of a one-precedent frame of said frame, said reset phase being based on a frame ratio of a frame frequency of an image pickup frame to a frame frequency of a video frame synchronized with the sync reference signal, and a frame sequence number showing a number allocated to the video frame; and said one or said plurality of image pickup apparatuses each having an image pickup unit to photograph light from an object, a system controller configured to determine a number of pixels per line based on the frame ratio and the frame sequence number; an image pickup driving unit to drive said image pickup unit to start a photographing of one image pickup frame based on said reset phase, said pixel count value, and said number of pixels per line, and an output unit to output image pickup data of the one image pickup frame photographed by said image pickup unit based on said sync reference signal, which has been transmitted from said controller.