Patent ID: 7675539

Claim:
A camera control apparatus for changing a photographing range of a camera including a driving apparatus for changing a photographing direction, the camera control apparatus comprising: a storage section storing, for each person of a plurality of persons to be photographed, face direction information when each face of the plurality of persons to be photographed by the camera is positioned in a central portion of a photographing range by the camera; a face position detection section configured to detect a position of a face of a person from a photographed image signal of the camera; a registration section configured to compute face direction information on the basis of a detection result by the face position detection section and information indicating a current photographing direction of the camera and registering the face direction information in the storage section; a driving control section configured to read face direction information corresponding to a person specified by an operation input from a user and controlling the driving apparatus in accordance with the face direction information in order to change the photographing direction of the camera; and an initial driving control section configured to control the driving apparatus so that an entire photographable range of the camera is divided and divided ranges are photographed in sequence by the camera.