Patent ID: 7532237

Claim:
A monitor camera device including a camera and a rotary base control unit connected to the camera and capable of transmitting a video signal between the camera and the rotary base control unit within the monitor camera device, wherein the camera comprises: an outside communication unit configured to send out the video signal to an outside of the monitor camera device and receive a camera remote control signal and a rotary base remote control signal from the outside of the monitor camera device; a camera control unit configured to control the camera according to the camera remote control signal; and a superimposition unit configured to superimpose the rotary base remote control signal on a video signal to be transmitted to the rotary base control unit within the monitor camera device, wherein the rotary base control unit includes an extraction unit configured to extract the rotary base remote control signal from the video signal on which the rotary base remote control signal is superimposed, and controls a rotary base according to the rotary base remote control signal.