Automatic in-car video recording apparatus for recording driving conditions inside and outside a car

An automatic in-car video recording apparatus for installing in a car to record and save images of driving conditions inside and outside the car when the car is started, the automatic in-car video recording apparatus comprising:

• a first image acquiring unit for acquiring images of road conditions in front of the car;
• a second image acquiring unit synchronized with the first image acquiring unit for acquiring images of conditions inside the car;
• an image processing unit integrating the images synchronously acquired by the first and the second image acquiring unit, so that images showing conditions inside and outside the car are simultaneously presented on a split screen;
• an image access unit for saving the synchronized images inside and outside the car that have been processed by the image processing unit, and further including an externally connected memory unit;
• a control unit for automatically periodically storing part of the image data saved in the image access unit on the memory unit;
• a detecting unit for detecting abnormal conditions, and driving the control unit to copy the image data saved in the image access unit to the memory unit when any abnormal condition is detected by the detecting unit;
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• a power supply unit for supplying power needed by all other units to operate normally.