| 摘要 |
An automatic tracking apparatus includes: an image pickup apparatus having zoom function; camera platform driving the image pickup apparatus in at least one of pan and tilt directions, and automaically tracking an object by operating the image pickup apparatus and camera platform; unit for detecting a position of the object in picked-up image information; prohibition area setting unit for setting tracking prohibition area, according to information on the automatic tracking apparatus that includes information on the object including information on at least one of type, orientation and traveling speed of the object, or information on at least one of pan and tilt positions of the camera platform and zoom position; and controller that does not perform tracking operation in the prohibition area, and performs zooming, panning and tilting to perform the tracking operation when out of the prohibition area. |
| 主权项 |
1. An automatic tracking apparatus comprising an image pickup apparatus having a zoom function and a camera platform driving the image pickup apparatus in at least one of a pan direction or a tilt direction, and automatically tracking an object to be tracked by operating at least one of the image pickup apparatus or the camera platform, the automatic tracking apparatus further comprising:
a unit for detecting a position of the object to be tracked in image information taken by the image pickup apparatus; a prohibition area setting unit for setting a tracking prohibition area in a picked up image based on information on the automatic tracking apparatus that includes information on the object to be tracked, including information on at least one of a type, an orientation, or a traveling speed of the object to be tracked, or information on at least one of a pan position of the camera platform, a tilt position of the camera platform, or a zoom position of the image pickup apparatus; and a controller that, when the position of the object to be tracked is in the tracking prohibition area, does not perform a tracking operation, and, when the position is out of the tracking prohibition area, performs at least one of zoom, pan, or tilt operations to perform the tracking operation to reposition the object within the tracking prohibition area. |
