Patent ID: 8810654
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus for controlling a pickup direction of a camera unit, comprising: a determining unit that determines a driving state of a motor, the motor being for changing the pickup direction of the camera unit; a detector unit that detects a change of the pickup direction; and a processing unit that instructs, in response to contemporaneous satisfaction of conditions of (1) detection of the change of the pickup direction by the detector unit and (2) a determination by the determining unit that the motor for changing the pickup direction of the camera unit is not driven, execution of at least: (a) a storing control processing for storing in a memory at least an image picked up before, after, or both before and after the contemporaneous satisfaction of the conditions of (1) and (2), (b) an outputting processing for outputting an alert, or both (a) and (b).