Patent ID: 8219702

Claim:
A video delivery apparatus for delivering a video stream to clients, comprising: an input unit configured to input video data from an image sensing device; a processing unit configured to process the video data to generate the video stream to be delivered to the clients; a control unit configured to control a direction of the image sensing device; a reception unit configured to receive from a first client a request including a control request of the image sensing device and a delivery request of the video stream; a determining unit configured to determine whether the video stream corresponding to the delivery request is to be delivered to the first client in accordance with a first processing load based on a sum total of the processing loads of the processing unit to generate the video stream to be delivered to other clients, a second processing load of the control unit to control the image sensing device, and a third processing load of the processing unit to generate the video stream to be delivered to the first client, wherein the first processing load is related to a resolution of the video stream to be delivered to other clients and the third processing load is related to a resolution of the video stream corresponding to the delivery request; and a delivery unit configured to deliver the video stream corresponding to the delivery request to the first client in accordance with the determination by the determining unit.