REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM USING VISUAL IMAGES AS LOOP-CLOSING MECHANISM

摘要

The present invention includes a suitable local user input device (10) used in association with a data transmission system to couple the user input into a telecom system (14) for communication to a remote receiver/decoder apparatus (16/17) and a multi-axis actuator device (18) responsive thereto, for driving a multi-axis controllable mechanism (19), such as a telescopic lens system (26) and associated video camera (22), to generate a selectable view of a remote scene or object. Remote video signal capture and return transmission means (24) completely decoupled from the input signal communication system receive the digitized camera output and communicate image data via a telecom network (26) or other communications media (28) back to a local video data receiver (30) having a display screen (32) viewable by the user and operative to display the remote image selected by the user in response to his input to the local input device.