Patent ID: 7750936

Claim:
A method for displaying video images, the method comprising: receiving a first digital video signal corresponding to a captured wide-angle video image of an environment, said wide-angle video image having a field of view distorted relative to human perception and being navigable for selecting regions of the wide-angle video image to display; collecting data points within the environment by collecting information relating to positions of a plurality of objects located within the environment; storing the collected data points as correlation data in a storage device; selecting an object of interest within the wide-angle field of view by performing a navigation of the wide-angle video image and selecting, based on a user input, the object of interest; processing the first digital video signal to create a perspectively corrected video image corresponding to the selected object of interest; receiving a second digital video signal corresponding to a second video image captured by a pan-tilt-zoom video camera, the second video image providing a view corresponding to the selected object of interest, the second video image further having been interpolated with the correlation data to correct parallax effects and correctly orient the pan-tilt-zoom video camera to the selected object of interest; and contemporaneously displaying the perspectively corrected video image, and the second video image.