Patent ID: 8675073

Claim:
A method associated with a moving target within a dynamic scene, comprising: reading parameters of a first variable pointing camera system; determining parameters for a plurality of other variable pointing camera systems based on the parameters of the first variable pointing camera system and mapping data for the camera systems, wherein the first variable pointing camera system and the plurality of other variable pointing camera systems are positioned around the scene, such that, at a point in time, each of the variable pointing camera systems is aimed at the target and a size of the target in an image from each of the variable pointing camera systems is substantially the same; and controlling the plurality of other variable pointing camera systems based on the parameters for the plurality of other variable pointing camera systems wherein the mapping data includes initial calibration data established when the plurality of slave variable pointing camera systems are installed at the dynamic scene, comprising initial calibration data regarding the geometric relationship of the camera systems to the scene; initial calibration data regarding the relationship between the zoom and the angular field of view for each camera system; and initial calibration data regarding the relationship between the focus and the range to target for each camera system, and further wherein a first slave variable pointing camera system is taken off line during filming of the dynamic scene, re-calibrated to adjust the initial calibration data, and returned on line during filming.