# US 10,375,324 B2 · Use of wireless connection loss to facilitate identifying and recording video capture location > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,375,324 B2 - Document ID: US10375324B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/255,387 - Filed: 2019-01-23 - Published: 2019-05-23 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-05-27 - Assignees: Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC - Applicants: Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC - Inventors: Hank Hundemer; Dana Lasher - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10375324B2 ## CPC - H04N 5/28: Mobile studios - G01S 5/0295: {Proximity-based methods, e.g. position inferred from reception of particular signals} - G06F 16/7867: {using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings} - G06F 16/787: using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location - G08C 17/02: using a radio link - G11B 27/11: by using information not detectable on the record carrier - G11B 27/3027: {used signal is digitally coded} - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - H04N 9/8205: {involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal} - H04N 21/41422: {located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle (arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62)} - H04N 21/4223: Cameras (H04N23/00 takes precedence) - H04N 21/43637: {involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth®, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] (arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114)} - H04N 21/44227: {Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network (configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811)} - H04N 21/4524: {involving the geographical location of the client (retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00)} - H04N 23/64: {Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image} - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services - G01S 2205/01: specially adapted for specific applications - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G08C: TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS (fluid pressure transmitting systems F15B; mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member into a different variable G01D5/00; mechanical control systems G05G) - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract A method and system to facilitate identifying and recording capture location of recorded video. A computing system determines multiple locations where a first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module have lost wireless connectivity with each other, as possible locations where a video camera may be used to capture video. The computing system then outputs, for presentation to the videographer or another user, a location-selection prompt that specifies the multiple determined locations as candidate capture-locations for a video that was captured by the video camera. Further, the computing system receives, in response to the location-selection prompt, data that represents a user selection of one of the specified locations. The computing system then records the selected location as capture-location metadata for the video, such as capture-location data integrated with the video or in a database relationship with the video. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: using loss of wireless connectivity that occurred between a first wireless communication module and a second wireless communication module as a basis to determine by a computing system a capture-location for a video captured by a video camera, wherein the computing system comprises at least one processor, wherein the first wireless communication module is disposed in a supplemental device associated with an operator of the video camera, and wherein using loss of wireless connectivity that occurred between the first wireless communication module and the second wireless communication module as a basis to determine the capture-location for the video captured by the video camera comprises (i) identifying the supplemental device based on an identity of the operator of the video camera, (ii) based on the identifying of the supplemental device, obtaining from the supplemental device location data indicating one or more locations where the first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module lost wireless connectivity with each other, and (iii) based on the indicating of the one or more locations, deeming a location of the one or more locations to be the capture-location; and recording by the computing system the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata for the captured video. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location data indicates multiple locations where the first wireless communication module and the second wireless communication module lost wireless connectivity with each other, the method further comprising: prompting for user selection of the capture-location from the indicated multiple locations, wherein deeming the location to be the capture location is based on the user selection, in response to the prompting, of the capture-location from the indicated multiple locations. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the second wireless communication module is disposed in a motor vehicle that transports the video camera. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the motor vehicle is a news vehicle, and wherein the captured video comprises news video. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the supplemental device is a cell phone. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining from the supplemental device the location data comprises: transmitting from the computing system to the supplemental device a request for the location data; and receiving by the computing system, in response to the request, the location data. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more locations where the first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module lost wireless connectivity with each other is a location where the first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module lost direct, peer-to-peer wireless connectivity with each other. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein recording by the computing system the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata for the captured video comprises a function selected from the group consisting of (i) recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata in video data representing the video captured by the video camera and (ii) recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata separate from the video data but in a database relationship with the video data. ### Claim 9 A method comprising: receiving, into a computing system, video captured by a video camera operated by a videographer, wherein the computing system comprises at least one processor, and wherein receiving the video comprises receiving the video through a communication session with the videographer; identifying by the computing system a first device associated with the videographer, wherein the identifying is based on the communication session being with the videographer; based on the identifying, obtaining by the computing system, from the identified first device, location data indicating one or more locations where the first device and a second device lost wireless connectivity with each other; based on the indicating of the one or more locations, determining a location of the one or more locations to be a capture-location for the captured video; and recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata for the captured video. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the location data indicates multiple locations where the first device and the second device lost wireless connectivity with each other, the method further comprising: prompting for user selection of the capture-location from the indicated multiple locations, wherein determining the location to be the capture location is based on the user selection, in response to the prompting, of the capture-location from the indicated multiple locations. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the second device is disposed in a news vehicle that transports the video camera, and wherein the captured video comprises news video. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein each of the one or more locations where the first device second device lost wireless connectivity with each other is a location where the first device and second device lost direct, peer-to-peer wireless connectivity with each other. ### Claim 13 A computing system comprising: at least one processor; at least one data storage; program instructions stored in the at least one data storage and executable by the at least one processor to carry out functions including: using loss of wireless connectivity that occurred between a first wireless communication module and a second wireless communication module as a basis to determine a capture-location for a video captured by a video camera, wherein the first wireless communication module is disposed in a supplemental device associated with an operator of the video camera, and wherein using loss of wireless connectivity that occurred between the first wireless communication module and the second wireless communication module as a basis to determine the capture-location for the video captured by the video camera comprises (i) identifying the supplemental device based on an identity of the operator of the video camera, (ii) based on the identifying of the supplemental device, obtaining from the supplemental device location data indicating one or more locations where the first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module lost wireless connectivity with each other, and (iii) based on the indicating of the one or more locations, deeming a location of the one or more locations to be the capture-location; and recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata for the captured video. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The computing system of claim 13, wherein the location data indicates multiple locations where the first wireless communication module and the second wireless communication module lost wireless connectivity with each other, the functions further including: prompting for user selection of the capture-location from the indicated multiple locations, wherein deeming the location to be the capture location is based on the user selection, in response to the prompting, of the capture-location from the indicated multiple locations. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The computing system of claim 13, wherein the second wireless communication module is disposed in a motor vehicle that transports the video camera. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The computing system of claim 15, wherein the motor vehicle is a news vehicle, and wherein the captured video comprises news video. ### Claim 17 (depends on 13) The computing system of claim 13, wherein the supplemental device is a cell phone. ### Claim 18 (depends on 13) The computing system of claim 13, wherein obtaining from the supplemental device the location data comprises: transmitting to the supplemental device a request for the location data; and receiving, in response to the request, the location data. ### Claim 19 (depends on 13) The computing system of claim 13, wherein each of the one or more locations where the first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module lost wireless connectivity with each other is a location where the first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module lost direct, peer-to-peer wireless connectivity with each other. ### Claim 20 (depends on 13) The computing system of claim 13, wherein recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata for the captured video comprises a function selected from the group consisting of (i) recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata in video data representing the video captured by the video camera and (ii) recording the determined capture-location as capture-location metadata separate from the video data but in a database relationship with the video data.