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Video system

  • US 8,031,231 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2006
  • Issued: 10/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/11/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for controlling a camera, said apparatus comprising:

  • a communication device configured to communicate with a plurality of control apparatuses through a network;

    a control device configured to, in a case that a first control apparatus included in the plurality of control apparatuses controls, through the network, a parameter of the camera including at least one of vertical pan, horizontal pan, and zoom, inhibit a second control apparatus included in the plurality of control apparatuses from controlling the parameter of the same camera through the network for a time period previously determined; and

    an output device configured to output display control information to control a display to display a residual time for the inhibition of controlling the parameter in response to said control device inhibiting the second control apparatus from controlling the parameter.

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