Patent ID: 6965394

Claim:
A device for remotely controlling a camera having a lens, said device comprising: a monitor operable to display a field of view of the lens, the field of view including images of a plurality of objects; a processor configured to determine a first image of the images of the plurality of objects that is being gazed upon by a viewer by generating an image of the viewer's face, use a pattern recognition technique on the image of the viewer's face to determine an orientation of the pupils of the viewer's eyes wherein a recognition of a outer corner of either eye is used as a reference to determine an orientation of the pupils of the viewer's eyes, use a non-parametric model for background subtraction to extract the first image; and a touch screen operable to provide one or more signals indicative of a viewer pointing on the touch screen in a direction of the first image for selectively adjusting a zoom and a focus of the lens in a direction of the first image.