Patent ID: 8648916

Claim:
A method for displaying an image corresponding to a first field of view to an operator of an image capturing device having at least one of a pan, a tilt, and a zoom functionality, comprising: receiving input data relating to a first operation command, the first operation command relating to a change in at least one of a position, an orientation, or a scaling of the first field of view, determining based on the input data at least one of a position, an orientation, or a scaling of the first field of view with respect to a second field of view which is larger than the first field of view, receiving an image captured by the image capturing device, determining an overlapping portion of the first field of view and the image captured by the image capturing device, determining an image to be displayed by: using image data of the image captured by the image capturing device in the overlapping portion, and, accessing image data of the second field of view and using the image data of the second field of view in a portion of the first field of view falling outside of the overlapping portion, displaying the determined image to the operator, and wherein the image data of the second field of view comprises a pre-recorded image, the method further comprising updating the pre-recorded image using the image captured by the image capturing device.