Patent ID: 8605158

Claim:
An image pickup control apparatus, comprising: a trigger acceptance section configured to accept a predetermined trigger input as an input to change from an automatic image pickup mode to a request responding image pickup mode; and a request responding image pickup control section configured to operate, upon determination that the trigger input is accepted by said trigger acceptance section while an image pickup apparatus performs a still picture image pickup operation with an image pickup visual field of the image pickup apparatus changed in the automatic image pickup mode, the image pickup control apparatus in the request responding image pickup mode in which the image pickup apparatus is controlled to execute a process for determining an image pickup visual field in accordance with an image pickup request from a user and subsequently execute a still picture image pickup operation in the request responding image pickup mode after the determination of the image pickup visual field, wherein in the automatic image pickup mode, the image pickup apparatus automatically performs the still picture image pickup operation regardless of the image pickup request from the user.