Patent ID: 9525826
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: G08B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit capable of changing an image pickup direction to pick up an image; a receiving unit configured to receive a command including a normalized position for setting a mask image to be displayed on the picked up image; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the received command further includes a designation of the image pickup direction of the image pickup unit for setting a position of the mask image to be displayed on the picked-up image; and a setting unit configured to set the position of the mask image to be displayed on the picked up image on the basis of the normalized position, the position of the mask image being set relative to the designated image pickup direction of the image pickup unit in the received command if it is determined by the determination unit that the received command includes the designation of the image pickup direction and to set the position of the mask image to be displayed on the picked up image on the basis of the normalized position in the received command, the position of the mask image being set relative to a current image pickup direction of the image pickup unit if it is determined by the determination unit that the received command does not include the designation of the image pickup direction.