Patent ID: 8405733

Claim:
A camera control apparatus comprising: an input section to which a plurality of cameras the action of each of which is controlled by the apparatus are connected, each of the cameras including a first preset information storage section capable of storing up to n pieces of preset information on the state of the camera setting; a second preset information storage section capable of storing (n+1)-th preset information to m-th preset information (n<m) in each of the plurality of cameras; an operation input unit to which an operation of selecting a specific one of the plurality of cameras is inputted and an operation of instructing registration of the preset information on the selected camera or an operation of instructing readout of the preset information on the selected camera is inputted; and a control section registering the preset information in the first or second preset information storage section when the operation of instructing registration of the preset information is inputted through the operation input unit, whereas reading the preset information from the first or second preset information storage section and incorporating the read preset information into the state of the selected camera when the operation of instructing readout of the registered preset information is inputted through the operation input unit, wherein, the control section stores camera information related with the preset information, wherein the control section stores information on the model of the cameras as the preset information, the control section checks if information on the model of the cameras which is stored as preset in formation coincides with the information on the model of the cameras connected to the input section before the preset information is read from the second preset information storage section, and when the two pieces of information on the model of the cameras do not coincide with each other, the preset information is not read.