Patent ID: 6977678

Claim:
A monitor camera system comprising: a monitor camera having a rotating mechanism with at least one revolution axis; and control means for controlling said monitor camera, said control means sending control data for designation of one of a photographing position and photographing direction of said monitor camera to said monitor camera, said monitor camera receiving said control data and calculating one of a pan rotation quantity and a tilt rotation quantity, by which said monitor camera is to be rotated from the present camera position, on the basis of the received control data so that one of pan rotation and tilt rotation of said monitor camera is made according to the calculated quantity, wherein said control means includes a screen for displaying a monitoring area of said monitor camera, and data indicative of one of a position and a direction in said monitoring area, pointed out on said screen is fed as said control data to said monitor camera, a preset point is additionally displayed in said monitoring area on said screen, and when a distance between said position pointed out on said screen and a position of said preset point is below a predetermined value, data on designation of said preset point is fed as said control data to said monitor camera.