Patent ID: 9270893
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of controlling camera settings for a camera arranged to capture images of a scene, the method comprising: detecting a current field of view of the camera within the scene; accessing data that indicates a first image control area and a second image control area of the camera within the scene; determining, by circuitry of the camera, whether the current field of view overlaps with both the first image control area and the second image control area; and adjusting, when the current field of view overlaps with both the first image control area and the second image control area, image capture settings of the camera by selecting one of a first overlapping region and a second overlapping region based on region properties for the first and second overlapping regions, and adjusting the image capture settings based on the selected overlapping region, wherein the first overlapping region is a portion of the current field of view that overlaps with the first image control area, the second overlapping region is a portion of the current field of view that overlaps with the second image control area, and the region properties include at least one of: size of region, amount of detected motion in region, a priority setting for the image control area corresponding to the respective region.