MONITORING SYSTEM AND CAMERA TERMINAL

摘要

There is provided a monitoring system capable of flexibly coping with a change of system configuration and having a high monitoring capability. The monitoring system includes a plurality of camera terminals (01, 01b) connected by a communication medium (02). The plurality of camera terminals include: an imaging element (04) for imaging an imaging region included in a monitoring range and having means for modifying the imaging region; a communication unit (03) for transmitting imaging characteristic information as information specifying an imaging region, via a communication medium (02) to another camera terminal and receiving imaging characteristic information from the another terminal; and an imaging characteristic modification unit (05) for modifying the imaging region by controlling the imaging element (04) of the camera terminal so that the imaging region of the camera terminal and the imaging region of the another camera terminal are in a predetermined relationship according to the imaging characteristic information from the camera terminal and the imaging characteristic information from the another camera terminal received by the communication unit (03).