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Image pickup system with separable/attachable image pickup device and display device

US6148141A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 30, 1997
Grant dateNov 14, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 30, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/61
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image pickup system comprising an image pickup device including an image pickup element for pickup the image of an object and outputting image data, a compression encoding circuit for effecting compression encoding of the image data, a wireless transmission circuit for modulating the compression encoded image data and transmitting the data to a wireless transmission channel, and a first connector adapted to be electrically and mechanically connected, in detachable manner, to a display device for displaying the image picked-up by the image pickup element and to transmit the image data from the image pickup element; and a display device including a wireless reception circuit for receiving the transmitted image data from the wireless transmission channel and demodulating the image data, an expansion circuit for expanding the demodulated image data to obtain first image data, a second connector adapted to be electrically and mechanically connected, in a detachable manner, to the first connector and to receive second image data from the image pickup device, a signal processing circuit for selectively receiving the first or second image data and processing the received image data to o…

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