Patent ID: 7295228

Claim:
A security camera system comprising: a plurality of video cameras; an image display monitor; a user control; and camera selector means; wherein the cameras' images in combination can provide a predetermined overall area of coverage; a target of interest can be observed by a first camera and an image of said target be displayed on the monitor; an image acquired by said first camera overlaps with an adjacent image acquired by at least one other camera, forming a transition region, said transition region being defined by a portion that is common to the images of both said first camera and said at least one other camera; each such transition region is displayed as a ‘button’ region by the image display; there are a plurality of such ‘button’ regions which substantially surround a central portion of an image in a field of view; and upon movement of the target to a transition region, the user control is operable to select the ‘button’ region in which the target appears in a displayed image, so as to select a second camera and to employ video signals from the second video camera to maintain target image continuity.