Patent ID: 7289563

Claim:
A security camera system comprising: an image pickup module which picks up an image, generates a video signal, and outputs the video signal; a record module which records the video signal on a record medium; an image recognition module which detects a specific image from the video signal outputted by the image pickup module or the video signal read out from the record module; a user recognition module which recognizes a plurality of different users and identifies a user who is watching an image generated from the video signal and outputs user information concerning said user who is watching said image, wherein said user can change depending on a situation; a processing module which receives the video signal outputted by the image pickup module or the video signal read out from the record module, and processes a part of the received video signal corresponding to the image detected by the image recognition module according to the user information, and outputs the processed video signal; a display module which displays an image generated by the processed video signal outputted by the processing module; and a level control module which receives the user information, generates processing level information indicating level of the processing corresponding to the user information, and outputs the processing level information wherein the processing module carries out the processing so that a level of the image processing is changed between several different levels, for privacy protection, depending on the processing level information.