CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

A control apparatus having an image capturing unit and configured to operate as a master device that controls a slave device, comprises: at least one processor causing the control apparatus to act as: a registration unit configured to register slave device information of a slave device to be controlled by the control apparatus; and an identification unit configured to, based on the slave device information registered by the registration unit, identify a slave device that exists in a range of image capturing by the image capturing unit. The registration unit registers, as the slave device information, information on a relative direction of existence of a slave device with respect to a position of the image capturing unit.