Patent ID: 7292265
Filing Date: 2007-11-06
Classification: G01S,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. Camera apparatus comprising: a camera for photographing a subject; a rotating body for rotating said camera in order to track said subject; and a controller for controlling the motion of said rotating body and a photographing operation of the camera; wherein said controller comprises: operation determination means for analyzing and determining input operation instruction information on said rotating body and said camera; data holding means for holding status information on the photographing operation of the camera, wherein the status information includes a distance from the camera to at least one of the subject and a floor, and further wherein said distance is obtained based on a focusing control operation; main control means for calculating an optimum speed to track said subject based on the information output from said operation determination means and said data holding means and outputting the speed to said rotating body, wherein said information output from said data holding means includes the distance from the camera to said at least one of the subject and the floor; and drive means for driving said rotating body.