To provide a monitoring camera driving method for using an optimum monitoring camera device to automatically monitor an important monitoring place in day and night with a monitoring camera aiming at crime prevention, automatically performing monitoring, automatically continuing to pursue a doubtful object at the time of detecting it, and highly precisely and correctly performing monitoring.

In the monitoring camera driving method, a function for obtaining video signals with two or more monitoring cameras having three-dimensional positioning pan head functions, organically processing video information, comparing it with data on an inputted plane photograph or data on front and side photographs, and judging whether it is similar to input information, is given.