IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

An image pickup apparatus includes: an image data production unit configured to produce data of a plurality of kinds of images from a picked up image and successively output the data; an image synthesis unit configured to cyclically connect the data of the plurality of kinds of images for each pixel string within a range set in advance for each of the kinds of the images and output the connected data as a stream to produce a virtual synthetic image; and an image sending unit configured to accept, from a host terminal, a data transmission request that designates a rectangular region in the virtual synthetic image, extract and connect data from the stream and transmit the connected data as a new stream to the host terminal

主权项

1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
an image data production unit configured to produce data of a plurality of kinds of images from a picked up image obtained by image pickup of an image pickup object and successively output the data for pixels of one horizontal line; an image synthesis unit configured to cyclically connect the data of the plurality of kinds of images outputted from the image data production unit for each pixel string within a range set in advance for each of the kinds of the images and output the connected data as a stream to produce a virtual synthetic image that includes the plurality of kinds of images and in which a pixel string when the connection makes one round is a pixel string for one horizontal line; and an image sending unit configured to accept, from a host terminal connected to the image pickup apparatus, a data transmission request that designates a rectangular region in the virtual synthetic image, extract and connect data from the stream in accordance with the data transmission request and transmit the connected data as a new stream to the host terminal; the image synthesis unit connecting pixel stings as a stream of the plurality of kinds of images such that those images that have a size equal to a reference image size determined in advance are connected for each horizontal line thereof; those images that have a size greater than the reference image size are connected for each range thereof greater than one horizontal line; and those images that have a size smaller than the reference image size are connected for each range thereof smaller than one horizontal line.