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US 10,257,396 B2Granted
Portable video and imaging system
AssigneeDigital Ally, Inc.
InventorsSteve Phillips, Jason R. Troxel
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Abstract
A portable video and imaging system includes a camera for capturing video of an event, and a video recording device for recording the captured video of the event. The camera is housed in a first housing, the recording device is housed in a second housing, and the first and second housings are physically separate. Various embodiments provide for the system to be mounted to a user's body, an article of clothing, such as a shirt or a hat, to a vehicle, or to an ancillary component carried by the user, such as a firearm.
Claims20
A portable video and imaging system for law enforcement comprising:
- a camera configured to capture video of an event and to store the captured video of the event to a memory, wherein said stored video comprises a plurality of video frames of a video file;
- an input actuatable by a law enforcement officer in the field and in response to being actuated, generate an activation signal;
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- a processor programmed to:
- receive said activation signal generated in response to the law enforcement officer actuating the input, and
- in response to the activation signal, store a mark in the video file to identify a point in time or location in the video file,
- wherein said mark in the video file enables the processor to perform the following:
- in response to a user request upon or during playback of the stored video file, automatically advance the playback of the video file to the marked point in time or location in the video file at which the law enforcement officer actuated the input;
- wirelessly transmit the video file to a mobile communications device configured for viewing the video on the mobile communications device;
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- wirelessly transmit the video file to a computer configured for viewing the video at a website.
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A portable video and imaging system for law enforcement comprising:
- a camera configured to capture video of an event and to store the captured video of the event to a memory, wherein said stored video comprises a plurality of video frames of a video file,
- wherein the camera is configured to be interchangeably mounted on a law enforcement officer's body and a law enforcement vehicle and includes a plurality of inputs actuatable by the law enforcement officer in the field;
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- a processor associated with the memory and the plurality of inputs and programmed to:
- upon receiving a first actuation signal indicative of a first actuation of a first input of the plurality of inputs while storing the video file, store a mark in the video file to thereby identify a marked location in the video file,
- upon receiving a second actuation signal indicative of a second actuation of a second input of the plurality of inputs while playing back the video file, automatically advance the playback of the video file to the marked location in the video file at which the first actuation signal was received,
- wirelessly transmit the video file to a mobile communications device configured for viewing the video on the mobile communications device, and
- automatically instruct the camera to initiate storing the event in the video file in response to receiving information indicative of a triggering event.
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One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing a video file of a law enforcement event, said video file comprising:
- a plurality of frames, each frame including video data of an event,
- wherein said video data is captured by a portable video and imaging system comprising a plurality of cameras, said system encoding a respective plurality of video streams into the video file;
- information indicative of a plurality of marks identifying a corresponding plurality of marked frames of the plurality of frames in the video file,
- wherein each of said plurality marks is initiated by a law enforcement officer actuating an input of the portable video and imaging system,
- wherein said plurality of marks in the video file enables, during playback of the video file, successively advancing the video file to each of the plurality of marked frames at which the law enforcement officer actuated the input;
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- metadata associated with each marked frame of the plurality of marked frames,
- wherein the metadata for each of the marked frames includes a geographical location of at least one component of the portable video and imaging system when the marked frame was captured and a time or date when the marked frame was captured;
- wherein the video file is transmitted to a mobile communications device configured for viewing the video on the mobile communications device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.