Patent ID: 8363105

Claim:
A camera apparatus comprising: an image pickup section configured to obtain a video image; a tracking section configured to track a target in the video image by analyzing the video image, when the target moves in the video image; a receiving section configured to receive a camera control request; a cut-out area-determining section configured to determine a first cut-out area corresponding to the target and a second cut-out area corresponding to the camera control request, to move the first cut-out area according to movement of the target in the video image, and to move the second cut-out area from a position determined based on the camera control request to keep a relative positional relationship between the first and second cut-out areas so that a distance between the first and second cutout areas after the target tracked by the tracking section moves is maintained the same as before the target moves in the video image; and an image cutting section configured to cut out a first partial image of the first cut-out area and a second partial image of the second cut-out area, respectively, from the video image, and to output the first and second partial images.