Abstract: An image server and an image communication system capable of displaying images of plural image servers differing in IP address on a browser window by using a versatile browser, and a methods for controlling them. Plural image servers communicate with a client computer displaying image information presented from image servers through a network. Of the plural image servers, the controller of a certain image server receives a request from the client computer, and displays the image data of the image server and image data of other plural image servers simultaneously on the browser window of the client computer. Accordingly, the controller of the designated image server creates display information, and supplies the information to the client computer.

Abstract: An image server and an image communication system capable of displaying images of plural image servers differing in IP address on a browser window by using a versatile browser, and a methods for controlling them. Plural image servers communicate with a client computer displaying image information presented from image servers through a network. Of the plural image servers, the controller of a certain image server receives a request from the client computer, and displays the image data of the image server and image data of other plural image servers simultaneously on the browser window of the client computer. Accordingly, the controller of the designated image server creates display information, and supplies the information to the client computer.

Abstract: An image server and an image communication system capable of displaying images of plural image servers differing in IP address on a browser window by using a versatile browser, and a methods for controlling them. Plural image servers communicate with a client computer displaying image information presented from image servers through a network. Of the plural image servers, the controller of a certain image server receives a request from the client computer, and displays the image data of the image server and image data of other plural image servers simultaneously on the browser window of the client computer. Accordingly, the controller of the designated image server creates display information, and supplies the information to the client computer.

Abstract: A method of remotely controlling the direction of a camera which is rotatively supported by a remote control device. Several remote control devices are coupled by a communication line. The communication line is used both for transmitting image information and for transmitting instruction information. An input instruction can be input to a first remote control device directly at the first side or transmitted through the communication line from a second remote side. The camera is rotated at a one speed if the instruction is received directly from the first side, or at a second, slower speed if the instruction is transmitted through the communication line from the second remote side.

Abstract: A camera unit for an electronic conference is adapted to be set on a monitor, and comprises a stationary support base set on the monitor, a camera unit body provided on said stationary support base so as to be horizontally rotatable, a lens block supported to the camera unit body so as to be vertically rotatable, and a control device incorporated in the camera unit body, for controlling the rotation of the camera unit body and the lens block and the focal distance and zooming ratio of the lens block, the lens block is adapted to be turned between a horizontal position at which the lens block is stored in a recess formed in the camera unit body, and picks up a person in front thereof, and a vertical position at which the lens block is projected forward from the camera unit body so as to pick up a document set therebelow, and the control device controls the focal distance and zooming ratio of the lens block in accordance with a horizontally rotating position of the camera unit body and a vertical rotating posit

Abstract: An image taking apparatus includes a wireless operation unit. The wireless operation unit includes a key input section, and a section for transmitting a wireless signal carrying operation information in response to operation of the key input section. A camera portion includes a camera body, a section for receiving the wireless signal from the wireless operation unit, a section for extracting the operation information from the wireless signal received by the receiving section, and a section for controlling the camera body. A main control unit includes a section connected to the extracting section in the camera portion for generating a camera control instruction in response to the operation information extracted by the extracting section, and a section connected to the controlling section in the camera portion for outputting the camera control instruction to the controlling section.

Abstract: An optical remote controller includes a movable infrared ray transmitter, a plurality of light receiving modules, and a received light signal selector for selecting the earliest sensed one from the light signals received by the light receiving modules. The signal selector includes a clock signal generator, first to third mask signal generators to generate invalidation signals, received light signal mask circuits to invalidate received signals, a mask release signal generator to measure an invalidation time period, and an encoder to sense termination of each unit of transmission information. A camera is attached rotatably in vertical and horizontal directions on a fixed support plate. The support plate includes a plurality of infrared ray receiving elements. According to a moving command of an optical remote control signal received by the elements, an optical remote controller vertically and horizontally drives the camera and directs the camera to the arrival direction of the remote control signal.