SURVEILLANCE CAMERA TERMINAL

A surveillance camera terminal includes a wireless communication means that performs wireless communication with another terminal located near the subject terminal either directly or via another terminal, an imaging means that images part of a surveillance area assigned to the subject terminal with an imaging visual field positioning the part of the surveillance area, an imaging visual field control means that adjusts the imaging visual field of the imaging means to a desired region in the surveillance area, an object extracting means that extracts an object being imaged by processing a frame image taken by the imaging means, a tracking means that tracks the object extracted by the object extracting means in the surveillance area, a handover means that hands over the object being tracked by the tracking means, and a wireless communication path forming means.