Patent ID: 6919921

Claim:
A camera control system for controlling an image pickup direction of a camera connected to said camera control system through a network, said camera control system comprising: a map display control device adapted to display a map; a first camera index indicative of a position of the camera in a state of being superimposed on the map and a second camera index on the map, indicative of a state of a current tilting direction of the camera in relation to the fist camera index by changing the shape of said second camera index without depending on a state of a current panning direction of the camera; a tilting direction display control device adapted to display information on the current tilting direction of a camera which corresponds to a designated second camera index and information on the controllable range in the tilting direction of the camera in response to designating the second camera index, by using a scroll bar; and a communicating device adapted to receive an image picked up by the camera; wherein said tilting direction display control device display the information of the current tilting direction of the camera and information on the controllable range in association with the change of shape of the second camera index.