Patent ID: 6977676

Claim:
A camera control system comprising: first image pickup device which picks up an image of an object through a wide-angle lens having distortion, to output frame images which are generated within a predetermined fixed area consecutively in a first interval; image processing device which performs projective transformation processing to correct distortion of the frame images outputted from said first image pickup device; second image pickup device having no distortion, which outputs frame images which are generated consecutively in a second interval which is shorter than the first interval; display device which displays the frame images processed by said image processing device, and which superimposes and displays, on the displayed frame images, a rectangular frame indicative of an image-pickup area of said second image pickup device, and displays the frame images from said second image pickup device together with the processed frame images and the rectangular frame; designating device which designates a desired rectangular area within the frame images displayed by said display device; control device which controls at least one of panning, tilting and zooming of said second image pickup device in such a way as to pick up an image corresponding to the rectangular area designated by said designating device, and; wherein, a frame image of the first image pickup device to be displayed by said display device is generated independently of the first interval, in response that said control device completes the control of said second image pickup device in accordance with the designation by said designating device.