Patent ID: 7450157

Claim:
A method for acquiring remote high resolution photographs by a user using a streaming video as a view-finder, comprising: connecting a remote device to one or more photo-video acquisition devices individually comprising a camera, wherein the remote device is controlled by the user; using a connected one of the cameras, generating a video of a scene viewed using the respective camera; acquiring a high resolution photograph from the remote device using the video streamed from the one or more photo-video acquisition devices as a view-finder; communicating a command from the user to the camera wherein the communicating the command comprises communicating using a communications channel different than a pipeline configured to communicate the video and high resolution photograph and wherein the communications channel and the pipeline comprise different physical media configured to communicate electrical signals in parallel; altering an operation the camera with respect to the generation of the video responsive to the command; and processing and transmitting the video and the high resolution photograph obtained from the one or more photo-video acquisition devices.