Patent ID: 7649551

Claim:
An electronic camera system comprising a master electronic camera and a slave electronic camera, wherein said master electronic camera includes a first photographing mechanism which photographs a subject; an operation member which executes a release of said photographing mechanism; a first photographing range information generation unit which generates main photographing range information which represents a position of a person to be photographed of said first photographing mechanism based on position information, a photographing distance, a photographing angle of view, and a photographing direction of said master electronic camera; a recording unit which stores person identifying data used to recognize a face of said person to be photographed; and a first communication unit which transmits said main photographing range information, said person identifying data, and release information to said slave electronic camera, and wherein said slave electronic camera includes a second photographing mechanism which photographs the subject; a second photographing range information generation unit which generates sub photographing range information based on the position information, the photographing distance, the photographing angle of view, and the photographing direction of said slave electronic camera; a drive mechanism which rotates said second photographing mechanism and varies the photographing direction thereof; a second communication unit which receives information from said first communication unit; a subject judging unit which judges whether or not said person to be photographed is at any position on a photographing screen of said second photographing mechanism based on said person identifying data; an arithmetic operation unit which performs an arithmetic operation for control information with which said person to be photographed is photographed based on said main photographing range information and said sub photographing range information; a compensation arithmetic operation unit which compensates said control information and frames said person to be photographed in a designation range when said person to be photographed is on said photographing screen and said person to be photographed does not match said designation range on said photographing range; and a control unit which controls said second photographing mechanism and said drive mechanism based on said control information and causes said second photographing mechanism to perform photography based on said release information.