Visca is a protocol used to control many pan and tilt cameras. it is commonly found in cameras used for computer vision or robotics research, as well as video conferencing.

libvisca is a library for controlling a visca(tm) compliant camera through the rs232 port of your pc. visca, on its side, is a protocol developed by sony so that a lot of machine vision cameras from sony are compliant with visca.

typical cameras include the fcb-ix47 family of camera block for oems. note that other devices, such as vcrs, can be controlled.

this package contains development headers and examples.