| 摘要 |
A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide a monitoring camera that does not produce an alarm even when a subject has made a movement within a set area and that can hold down system cost, as well as to provide a monitoring camera control method. An image signal processing DSP (16) subjects an image captured by an imaging element (11) having a zoom lens (24) to image processing for identifying a tracking target. In accordance with zoom information generated by the image signal processing DSP (16), the main CPU (19) controls the zoom lens (24); and controls a turn table (12) that moves the imaging element (11) in panning and tilting directions in accordance with pan and tilt information, to track the tracking target. During tracking of the tracking target, a determination is made, from information about movements of the tracking target generated by the image signal processing DSP (16), as to whether or not the target to be tacked has intruded the inside of the area from the outside. In a case where the target has intruded the inside of a preset area from the outside, an alarm command is produced when the target continually remains in the area for; e.g., one second. |
