Camera control system and camera control apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKOICHIRO TANAKA, HIROKI YONEZAWA, YASUO NAKAMURA, AKITOMO SASAKI
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Abstract
A camera control system has one or more cameras, power supply to which can be externally controlled, one or more camera management devices for managing the cameras, one or more terminal stations which communicate with the camera management devices to display images from the cameras, and an instruction device for generating a power turn-on/off instruction of an arbitrary one of the cameras from the terminal station.
Claims21
A camera control system comprising:
- at least one camera, power supply to which can be externally controlled;
- at least one camera management means for managing said at least one camera;
- at least one terminal station which communicates with said camera management means to display an image from said at least one camera;
- and
- instruction means for generating a power turn-on/off instruction of an arbitrary one of said at least one camera from said terminal station.
A camera control system comprising:
- at least one camera, power supply to which can be externally controlled;
- at least one camera management means for managing said at least one camera;
- at least one terminal station which communicates with said camera management means and has a display unit for displaying an image input from said at least one camera;
- switch means for switching the camera which inputs the image to be displayed on said display unit;
- and
- instruction means for generating a power turn-off instruction of the camera that inputs an image which ceases to be displayed on said display unit upon switching by said switch means.
A camera control system comprising:
- at least one camera, power supply to which can be externally controlled;
- at least one camera management means for managing said at least one camera;
- and
- at least one terminal station which communicates with said camera management means and has a display unit for displaying an image input from said at least one camera,
- wherein said camera management means sends a predetermined camera's power turn-off request to all the terminal stations.
A camera control apparatus for externally instructing an operation of an arbitrary one of at least one camera, comprising:
- power ON/OFF informing means for informing predetermined camera management means of a power ON/OFF state of an arbitrarily designated camera, and
- wherein said power ON/OFF informing means comprises pseudo button display means for displaying a pseudo power control button on a screen of a terminal station, and pointer means for operating the pseudo button.
A camera control apparatus for externally instructing an operation of an arbitrary one of at least one camera, comprising:
- a display unit for displaying an image input from the at least one camera;
- switch means for switching the camera that inputs the image to be displayed on said display unit;
- and
- instruction means for generating a power turn-off instruction of the camera that inputs an image which ceases to be displayed on said display unit upon switching by said switch means.
A storage medium which stores a program for externally instructing an operation of an arbitrary one of at least one camera, comprising:
- a camera control program comprising steps of displaying a pseudo power control button on a screen and informing predetermined camera management means of a power ON/OFF state of an arbitrarily designated camera by operating the pseudo button.
A storage medium which stores a program for externally instructing an operation of an arbitrary one of at least one camera, comprising:
- a camera control program comprising steps of displaying an image input from the at least one camera, instructing switching of the camera that inputs the image to be displayed, and instructing to turn off a power source of the camera that inputs the image which ceases to be displayed in accordance with the switching instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.