Event information collection system
AssigneeUnited States Automobile Association (USAA)
InventorsAngelica N. White, Matthew C. Dahlman, Brian Tougas, Gideon B. Luck
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Abstract
Methods and systems can identify and request video data and information associated with an event. An event location and time associated with the event can be determined. The event can comprise damage to property or injury to a person. A geographic range of interest associated with the event location and a time duration of interest associated with the event time can be determined. One or more users who are determined to have been at or near the event location at the event time can be automatically identified. A request for at least one of information or video data from the geographic range and time duration of interest can be transmitted to the one or more identified users.
Claims20
A method for requesting video data associated with an event, the method comprising:
- determining an event location and an event time associated with the event;
- identifying A) a geographic range associated with the event location and B) a time duration associated with the event time;
- generating query parameters for querying meta-data associated with video data stored in at least two video storage sources;
- and
- automatically querying the at least two video storage sources, using the query parameters, to obtain video files that correspond to the geographic range and the time duration,
- wherein the video files comprise video data associated with the event,
- wherein a first video storage source of the at least two video storage sources includes at least video data acquired by cameras associated with vehicles, and
- wherein a second video storage source of the at least two video storage sources is a publicly available video aggregator of videos posted by a plurality of entities.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process for requesting video data associated with an event, the process comprising:
- determining an event location and an event time associated with the event;
- identifying A) a geographic range associated with the event location and B) a time duration associated with the event time;
- and
- automatically querying the at least two video storage sources to obtain video files that correspond to the geographic range and the time duration,
- wherein the video files comprise video data associated with the event,
- wherein a first video storage source of the at least two video storage sources includes at least video data acquired by cameras associated with vehicles, and
- wherein a second video storage source of the at least two video storage sources is a publicly available video aggregator of videos posted by a plurality of entities.
A computing system for requesting video data associated with an event, the computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform a process comprising:
- determining an event location and an event time associated with the event;
- identifying A) a geographic range associated with the event location and B) a time duration associated with the event time;
- and
- automatically querying at least two video storage sources to obtain video files that correspond to the geographic range and the time duration,
- wherein a first video storage source of the at least two video storage sources includes at least video data acquired by cameras associated with vehicles, and
- wherein a second video storage source of the at least two video storage sources is a publicly available video aggregator of videos posted by one or more entities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.