Patent ID: 9560321
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G08B,H04N

Claim:
1. An image capturing system including a camera control device and a plurality of cameras connected to the camera control device, wherein each of the plurality of cameras comprises: an image generator that generates an all-around image by capturing the all-around image; a moving object detector that detects a moving object from the all-around image generated by the image generator and transmits information indicating a position of the moving object in the all-around image to the camera control device; and a transmitter that transmits a clipped image including the moving object, based on the all-around image, when the camera is selected by the camera control device, and the camera control device comprises: an information receiver that receives the information indicating the position of the moving object in the all-around image from a camera of the plurality of cameras, the information indicating the position of the moving object at least relating to a tilt of the moving object relative to the camera; a generator that transforms the information indicating the position of the moving object, relating to the tilt, into an evaluation value of the tilt of the moving object relative to the camera, based on a relationship between the position of the moving object and a center of the all-around image; a selector that selects at least one camera from the plurality of cameras based on the evaluation value of the tilt; a notifier that notifies a selection result by the selector, to the plurality of cameras; and an image receiver that receives the clipped image from each of the selected at least one camera.