A portable, point of view digital video camera, comprising: a lens; an image sensor configured to capture light propagating through the lens and representing a scene, and produce real time video image data of the scene; a wireless connection protocol device configured to send real time image content by wireless transmission directly to and receive control signals or data signals by wireless transmission directly from a personal portable computing device executing an application; and a camera processor configured to: receive the video image data directly or indirectly from the image sensor, generate from the video image data a first image data stream and a second image data stream, wherein the second image data stream is a higher quality than the first image data stream, cause the wireless connection protocol device to send the first image data stream directly to the personal portable computing device for display on a display of the personal portable computing device, wherein the personal portable computing device generates the control signals for the video camera, and wherein the control signals comprise at least one of a frame alignment, multi-camera synchronization, remote file access, and a resolution setting, and at least one of a lighting setting, a color setting, and an audio setting, receive the control signals from the personal portable computing device, and adjust one or more settings of the video camera based at least in part on at least a portion of the control signals received from the personal portable computing device. view more

A point of view digital video camera system, comprising: a hands-free compact portable video camera, comprising: a lens, an image sensor configured to capture light propagating through the lens and representing a scene, and produce real time video image data of the scene, a camera processor for receiving the video image data directly or indirectly from the image sensor, and a wireless connection protocol device operatively coupled to the processor and configured to send video image content by wireless transmission directly to and receive control signals or data signals by wireless transmission directly from a personal portable computing device executing an application; a mounting interface coupled to the video camera for mounting the video camera to a user of the video camera; and a camera mount configured to be mounted to at least one of the body, a garment, and a vehicle of the user of the video camera, the camera mount configured to couple to the mounting interface to mount the video camera on at least one of the body, the garment, and the vehicle of the user of the video camera, wherein the camera mount is further configured for manual adjustment of the video camera with respect to the user of the video camera, wherein the camera processor is configured to: generate first video image content and second video image content corresponding to the video image data representing the scene, wherein the second video image content is a higher quality than the first video image content, cause the wireless connection protocol device to send the first video image content directly to the personal portable computing device for display on a display of the personal portable computing device, wherein the first video image content comprises a preview image of the scene, the preview image allowing the user of the video camera to manually adjust an angle of the video camera with respect to the user of the video camera, and wherein the personal portable computing device generates the control signals for the video camera based at least in part on input received from a user of the personal portable computing device, wherein the control signals comprise at least one of a frame alignment, multi-camera synchronization, remote file access, data acquisition, and a resolution setting, and at least one of a lighting setting, a color setting, and an audio setting, receive, prior to a recording of the scene, the control signals from the personal portable computing device for adjusting one or more image acquisition settings of the video camera in accordance with input received at the personal portable computing device, and based at least in part on a record command, cause the second video image content to be stored in a storage device at the video camera. view more