Patent ID: 8427539

Claim:
A camera control apparatus which is connected to a plurality of cameras via a network, comprising; an acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of the plurality of cameras; a control unit configured to control one of the plurality of cameras as a control-target camera; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a control request for a first one of the plurality of cameras to be controlled by the control unit is a control request for camera control which exceeds a viewable angle of the first one of the plurality of cameras to be controlled by the control unit; a display control unit configured to control a display device to display an operation image for operating to change the control-target camera from the first one to a second one of the plurality of cameras in a case where the determination unit determines that the control request to the first one of the plurality of cameras is the control request for camera control which exceeds the viewable angle of the first one of the plurality of cameras; and a changing unit configured to change the control-target camera from the first one to the second one of the plurality of the cameras to be controlled by the control unit in response to the operation to the operation image displayed in accordance with the determination by the determination unit.