IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

摘要

In a method of setting an OSD function according to a related technique, it is not allowed to select various superimposing techniques. In a case where a monitoring camera supports a plurality of superimposing techniques, a user is supposed to select one of the superimposing techniques via a troublesome operation. In view of the above, an image pickup apparatus is provided which includes a reception unit configured to receive an acquisition request for information associated with an image superimposing method of the image pickup apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to, in a case where the acquisition request for the information associated with the image superimposing method of the image pickup apparatus is received by the reception unit, transmit information associated with the image superimposing method of the image pickup apparatus.

主权项

1. An image pickup system including:
an image pickup apparatus, wherein the image pickup apparatus includes an image sensing unit, and a superimposing unit configured to superimpose superimposing information on a picked-up image output from the image sensing unit; and an external apparatus configured to communicate with the image pickup apparatus via a network, wherein the external apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive relation information from the image pickup apparatus via the network, wherein the relation information indicates whether the superimposing of information, superimposed by the superimposing unit, is related to information associated with an image source.