摘要 |
An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes image pickup means; holding means for holding a coordinate system used to represent an image capturing direction of the image pickup means or a region in an image capturing range of the image pickup means; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means or a captured image cut out from the region in the image capturing range by a certain angle, a second command for rotating the coordinate system held in the holding means about the origin by the certain angle, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system; change control means for executing control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information; and control means for executing, when the reception means receives one of the first command and the second command, control to execute the first command and the second command prior to reception of the other one of the first command and the second command. |