Patent ID: 6909457

Claim:
A camera control system for controlling a linked operation of a plurality of cameras via a network, said system comprising: camera setting means for setting a plurality of cameras connected to the network as cameras to be linked with one another; movement setting means for setting conditions and contents of a linked movement for each of the cameras set by said camera setting means; camera-state-information acquisition means for acquiring information relating to a state of at least one photographing parameter of the plurality of cameras set by said camera setting means; starting means for starting, when a camera satisfying the conditions of the linked movement set by said movement setting means is present based on the state information acquired by said camera-state-information acquisition means, the contents of the linked movement corresponding to the conditions of the linked movement set by said movement setting means; and output means for outputting a control command corresponding to the contents of the linked movement to at least one camera to be linked with the camera satisfying the set conditions.