Patent ID: 8723921

Claim:
An image pickup system comprising: an image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup section that outputs an electric signal after photoelectric conversion, as image information, from a plurality of pixels; a signal processing section that performs signal processing on a signal including the image information outputted from the image pickup section; a first reception section that receives a signal transmitted from outside; a first transmission section that transmits the signal processed by the signal processing section to outside; and a first reference synchronization signal generation section that generates, at a predetermined cycle, a first reference synchronization signal for the signal processing, and a processing apparatus including: a second reference synchronization signal generation section that generates, at a predetermined cycle, a second reference synchronization signal for video calculation processing with respect to the signal processed by the signal processing section; a second transmission section that is connected to the reception section in the image pickup apparatus and transmits a predetermined signal to the image pickup apparatus; a second reception section that is connected to the transmission section in the image pickup apparatus and receives a video signal on which the first reference synchronization signal is superimposed, the video signal being transmitted from the image pickup apparatus, and a reference synchronization signal comparing section that compares the first reference synchronization signal with the second reference synchronization signal, wherein the second transmission section in the processing apparatus transmits a signal related to comparison result information based on a comparison result by the reference synchronization signal comparing section to the image pickup apparatus, the first reception section in the image pickup apparatus receives the signal related to the comparison result information based on the comparison result, and the first reference synchronization signal generation section in the image pickup apparatus changes a timing of the first reference synchronization signal on the basis of the comparison result information.