Patent ID: 9712737
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A camera control method used in a photographing system including an identification (ID) issuer installed in a photographing spot, a photographing camera installed toward the photographing spot, and a communicator for performing data communication with an external terminal, the camera control method comprising: generating a first photographing ID by receiving a request to issue a photographing ID; issuing the first photographing ID from the ID issuer; receiving a second photographing ID at the communicator; authenticating that a transmission source of the second photographing ID is present in the photographing spot when the first photographing ID is collated with the second photographing ID and the collated IDs are identical; controlling the photographing camera in accordance with an instruction from the transmission source of the second photographing ID authenticated by the authenticating; and controlling a photographing range of the photographing camera, wherein in the photographing system, the ID issuer is installed at each of a plurality of photographing spots, the generating receives the request to issue a photographing ID with respect to the ID issuers and generates a plurality of first photographing IDs, the issuing issues each of the first photographing IDs from the ID issuer corresponding thereto, the receiving receives a plurality of second IDs from one transmission source, the authenticating collates the first photographing IDs with the second photographing IDs and, when any of the second photographing IDs identical with any of the first photographing IDs is present, authenticates that a transmission source of the second photographing ID is present in a photographing spot corresponding to the identical first photographing ID, and the controlling the photographing range to change the photographing range of the photographing camera in a manner including all of the photographing spots authenticated by the authenticating as having therein the transmission source of the second photographing ID.