Patent ID: 7161624

Claim:
A remote control pan head system of a TV camera, comprising: an operation part which outputs a control signal to a remote control pan head in which a camera is mounted, at least one of the remote control pan head and the camera being controlled with the control signal and said control signal being data for directly controlling at least one of the remote control pan head and the camera; a data converter which detects a data format of a communication data outputted from the operation part, determines whether or not the data format of the communication data differs from a data format for the remote control pan head, converts the communication data outputted from the operation part including the control signal into a data format used in serial communication which conforms with the data format for the remote control pan head if it is determined that the data format of the communication data differs from the data format for the remote control pan head and transmits the converted communication data to the remote control pan head, and transmits the communication data to the remote control pan head without conversion if it is determined that the data format of the communication data does not differ from the data format for the remote control pan head; and first and second modems connected with each other via a general communication line, wherein the control signal outputted by the operation part is transmitted to the first modem, then to the second modem, and then to the data converter.