Retrospective capture trigger
AssigneeHowl Holdings LLC
InventorsGEOFFREY D. OSLER, TIMOTHY M. LONDERGAN, CHRISTOPHER A. WIKLOF
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Abstract
An event marking device marks the real time at which notable events occur. When a notable event occurs, a user causes the event marking device to generate a trigger signal. The event marking device includes a real-time clock. When the user causes a trigger signal to be generated, a microcontroller of the event marking device reads the real-time clock and writes trigger event data to a memory indicating a real time at which the trigger signal was generated. The event marking device outputs the trigger event data to an external device.
Claims25
An event marking device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a microcontroller disposed in the housing;
- a memory disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the microcontroller;
- a real-time clock disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the microcontroller;
- a communication interface disposed in the housing and operatively to the microcontroller;
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- a trigger circuit disposed in the housing, operatively coupled to the microcontroller, and arranged to be enabled by a user;
- wherein the microcontroller is configured to read the real-time clock and write a corresponding real-time datum in the memory upon receiving each instance of the user enabling the trigger circuit;
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- wherein the microcontroller is configured to read the real-time data from the memory and output the real-time data via the communication interface when the communication interface is operatively coupled to an external device.
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A method, comprising:
- generating real-time clock data with a real-time clock of an event marking device;
- generating, with a trigger circuit of the event marking device, a trigger signal;
- identifying, from the real-time clock data with a microcontroller of the event marking device, a real time corresponding to a receipt of the trigger signal;
- writing, with the microcontroller, trigger signal data to a memory of the event marking device indicating the real time associated with receipt of the trigger signal;
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- outputting, with a communication interface of the event marking device, the trigger event data to an external device.
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A device, comprising:
- a trigger circuit disposed in a housing and configured to generate a trigger signal;
- a real-time clock disposed in the housing and configured to generate real-time clock data corresponding to a real time;
- a memory disposed in the housing and configured to store data in a computer readable media;
- a microcontroller coupled to the trigger circuit, the real-time clock, and the memory and configured to receive the trigger signal, to reference the real-time clock data upon receiving the trigger signal, and to write trigger event data to the memory indicating a real time at which the trigger signal was generated;
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- a communication interface configured to output the trigger event data to an external device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.