Image pickup system, including measuring unit

摘要

An image pickup system includes: an optical system including a focus lens unit; a camera platform apparatus driving the optical system to pan and tilt; a measuring unit measuring a distance to an object, the measuring unit operable to be driven independently from the pan/tilt-driving of the optical system; and a controller storing panning/tilting positions of the optical system as pre-set positions, and controls driving of the optical system to the pre-set positions, wherein upon input of a drive command for driving the optical system to the stored pre-set positions, the controller drives the measuring unit so that a panning position of the measuring unit and the stored panning position correspond to each other and starts measurement by the measuring unit before completion of the driving of the optical system to the stored panning/tilting positions.

主权项

1. An image pickup system comprising:
an image pickup apparatus including an image pickup optical system including a focus lens unit and a measuring unit for measuring a distance to an object or a focus state of the image pickup optical system with respect to the object;
a camera platform apparatus which drives the image pickup optical system to pan and tilt; anda controller that stores a panning position and a tilting position of the image pickup optical system as preset positions, and controls the camera platform apparatus to drive the image pickup optical system to the preset positions,wherein upon input of a drive command for the camera platform apparatus to drive the image pickup optical system to the preset positions, the controller starts measurement by the measuring unit with respect to an object in an optical direction of the image pickup optical system at the preset positions after the input of the drive command for the camera platform apparatus to drive the image pickup optical system to the preset positions and before completion of the driving of the image pickup optical system to the preset position.