Integrating data from multiple devices

• US 10,205,915 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2017
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Utility Associates Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Utility Associates Incorporated
• Inventors: Araya, Simon, Davis, Ted Michael, McKeeman, Robert Stewart
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US15/586,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20170237950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• Field of Search: 386241, 386200, 386210, 386224, 386226, 386227, 386229, 386239, 386248, 386291
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/17 Emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19669 Event triggers storage or change of storage policy
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/02 Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 31/006 with video camera or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/802 involving processing of the sound signal H04N9/806, H04N9/835 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A recording system for an emergency response unit includes a first data collection device configured to record a first video, audio or data segment with an incident identifier and transmit a message including the incident identifier. A second data collection device may receive the message and, as appropriate, record at least a second video, audio or data segment with the incident identifier, allowing the first segment and the second segment to be associated using the incident identifier. In other embodiments, a first recording device may begin recording video, audio or legal evidence data with an incident identifier, and a control system may receive a message including the incident identifier from the first recording device, identify one or more additional recording devices located within a certain distance of the first recording device, and obtain recordings from the one or more additional recording devices.

Claims

1. A system, including:

a first data collection device to record at least one of video, audio and data information, with an incident identifier;

a control system comprising;

a beacon message, wherein the beacon message is the incident identifier and is received from the first data collection device;

one or more additional data collection devices located within a certain distance of the first data collection device;

data from the one or more additional recording devices,

wherein the first data collection device and the one or more additional data collection devices monitor distances therebetween, and wherein when an identified additional data collection device is further than the certain distance from the first data collection device, the identified additional data collection device stops recording data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more additional data collection devices receive the beacon message and incident identifier, wherein the one or more additional data collection devices initiate recording of data when the one or more additional data devices are within said certain distance of the first data collection device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data collection device is a smartphone.

3. A system including:

a first data collection device to record at least one of video, audio and data information, with an incident identifier;

a control system comprising;

a beacon message, wherein the beacon message is the incident identifier and is received from the first data collection device;

one or more additional data collection devices located within a certain distance of the first data collection device; and

data from the one or more additional recording devices,

wherein the control system displays the data recorded from the one or more additional data collection devices while the one or more additional data collection devices are within the certain distance from the first data collection device.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more additional data collection devices receive the beacon message and incident identifier, wherein the one or more additional data collection devices initiate recording of data when the one or more additional data devices are within said certain distance of the first data collection device.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the first data collection device is a smartphone.