Memory support system

• US 20040155112A1
• Filed: 12/04/2003
• Published: 08/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US10/479,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20040155112A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/472.02
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19669 Event triggers storage or change of storage policy
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19673 Addition of time stamp, i.e. time metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/231 Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

There are provided a portable information terminal 104 that creates audio visual information including image information and acoustic information by an image constantly shot at the monitoring position arbitrarily displaced and sound constantly collected thereat, adds time information to the audio visual information, and transmits it via a communication network 100, and a storage server 106 that stores the audio visual information and time information transmitted from the portable information terminal 104 via the communication network 100 and transmits the storage information via the communication network 100 according to a reference request of storage information including the audio visual information and time information.

Claims

1. A memory aid system comprising:

a portable terminal that creates audio visual information including image information and acoustic information from an image shot at a position arbitrarily displaced and sound collected thereat and transmits the audio visual information via a communication network; and

a storage server that makes time information accompany the audio visual information transmitted from said portable terminal to store as storage information and transmits the storage information via the communication network according to a reference request including time information.

2. The memory aid system according to claim 1, wherein said portable terminal adds time information to the created audio visual information to transmit.

3. The memory aid system according to claim 1, further comprising a base station that performs radio communication with said portable terminal and is connected to said storage server via the Internet, wherein said base station adds time information to said audio visual information transmitted from said portable terminal and transmits to said storage server via the Internet.

4. The memory aid system according to claim 1, further comprising a computer apparatus connected to said storage server via the Internet, wherein said computer apparatus sends the reference request to said storage server via the Internet and reproduces the storage information transmitted from said storage server according to the reference request.

5. The memory aid system according to claim 1, wherein said portable terminal performs switching whether the audio visual information is constantly recorded on said storage server.

6. The memory aid system according to claim 1, wherein said portable terminal comprises a shooting section that shoots the circumstance of the arbitrarily displaced position to output an image signal, a sound collecting section that collects sound of the arbitrarily displaced position to output an acoustic signal, and a detecting section that detects the attaching states of said shooting section and said sound collecting section, and transmits information on the detected attaching states together with the audio visual information via the communication network.

7. The memory aid system according to claim 6, wherein said storage server stores the information on the attaching states transmitted from said portable terminal to be included in the storage information.

8. The memory aid system according to claim 1, wherein said portable terminal transmits information indicating the position of the terminal itself together with the audio visual information via the communication network.

9. The memory aid system according to claim 8, wherein said storage server stores information indicating the position of said portable terminal to be included in the storage information.