Patent ID: 8610787

Claim:
A camera device comprising: a plurality of imaging units for imaging an area in a shooting field so as to obtain an image data; a communications unit for communicating with a specific subject and receiving object information including a size, shape, direction and position of the specific subject as subject information; a distance estimation unit for estimating distance information of the specific subject with respect to the camera device by estimating a sideway deviation of the specific subject using at least two of the plurality of imaging units; an identified area detection unit for dynamically detecting an identified area corresponding to the subject included in the image data obtained by the imaging unit according to at least the distance information; and an image data processing unit for specifying a protected area in the identified area detected by the identified area detection unit based on protection target information included in the subject information received by the communications unit, and applying protection only to the protected area when the subject includes a protection target to be protected, the subject information includes both of the object information and the protection target information including protection target size, protection target shape, protection target direction and protection target position related to the protection target.