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AssigneeL-3 Communications Mobile-Vision, Inc.
InventorsLouis W. Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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An in-car video system and method are provided where a vehicle speed derived from a vehicle speed sensor (“VSS”) signal is compared against a user-settable threshold value. If the vehicle speed exceeds the threshold value, an alarm is generated. The alarm is used by the in-car video system to automatically activate the record function of a video recorder. The alarm may be optionally sent to a remote location, such as a police agency's headquarters as an alert that the vehicle speed has exceeded a set threshold and that a possible high speed pursuit has commenced. Vehicle speed information derived from the VSS signal is generated into a form that is continuously displayable on an in-car video monitor or continuously recordable by the video recorder along with the video and audio information captured by the in-car video system camera and microphones.
An activation controller for automatically activating an in-car video system that includes a car-mounted camera and video recorder, comprising:
A method of operating an in-car video system including a car-mounted camera and video recorder that is installed and operated in a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:
An in-car video system, comprising:
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