SUPERVISORY SYSTEM AND SUPERVISORY CAMERA

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a supervisory system capable of tracing and supervising a mobile body by interlocking a plurality of cameras. SOLUTION: The supervisory system capable of tracing and supervising a video image of a mobile body being a tracing object by interlocking a plurality of cameras 10 is configured such that each of the supervisory cameras 10 is provided with image recognition functions 12, 13, the supervisory camera for recognizing feature information of the mobile body in the photographed video image transmits the video image to a monitor 50 via a network 80, transmits the feature information of the mobile body to the other supervisory cameras 10 via the network 80, the supervisory camera 10 for recognizing the feature information received from the other supervisory cameras 10 in the photographed video image transmits the video image to the monitor via the network 80 and transmits the feature information of the mobile body to the other supervisory camera 10 via the network 80. Thus, the supervisory system can keep tracing the tracing object even in a space where many dead angles exist. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO