Video recording apparatus for vehicle and video recording method for vehicle

Abstract

Disclosed is a video recording apparatus for a vehicle, which includes a camera unit formed so as to change a capturing direction; a driver's viewing direction detecting unit configured to detect a driver's viewing direction; a control unit configured to control the camera unit so that the detected viewing direction corresponds to the capturing direction; and a storing unit configured to store a video obtained by the camera unit. Therefore, a video in a direction at which the driver views is obtained and stored without mounting a plurality of cameras so that it is possible to obtain a video for a situation of an accident of a vehicle of the driver or a vehicle of another driver occurring not only in the front of the driver's vehicle but also in the side of the driver's vehicle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.