Patent ID: 7382936

Claim:
A surveillance camera apparatus comprises an image signal transmission apparatus transmitting an image signal and an image signal reception apparatus, coupled with said image signal transmission apparatus through a transmission path, for receiving said image signal from said image signal transmission apparatus, wherein said image signal transmission apparatus comprises: an image pick-up unit for picking-up an object and outputting an image signal of said object; a position input unit for generating position information relating to a predetermined privacy-related image part; a position data adding unit, coupled with said image pick-up unit, for superimposing said position information into a vertical blanking period of said image signal from said image pick-up unit; and a first image signal output unit, coupled with said position data adding unit, for outputting said image signal with said position information obtained from said position input unit, said image signal being all image signals including an image signal of said predetermined privacy-related image part and said image signal of said object, wherein said all image signals are transmitted to said image signal reception apparatus through a transmission path, and wherein said image signal reception apparatus comprises: an image signal input unit for applying said all image signals with said position information from said image signal transmission apparatus; a position information detector for detecting said position information from said all image signals; a recorder for recording said all image signals without masking or with masking based on said position information; a second signal output unit, coupled with said recorder, for outputting said all image signals without masking or with masking from said recorder; and a controller for selectively outputting from said image signal output unit, one of said all image signals without masking and said all image signals with masking said predetermined privacy-related image part based on said position information from said position information detector.