Safty cam

• US 20060209189A1
• Filed: 03/16/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kent William Simpson
• Original Assignee: Kent William Simpson
• Inventors: Simpson, Kent William
• Application Number:
  US11/020,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20060209189A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4184 providing storage capabilities, e.g. memory stick
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

This invention, called the Safety Cam. Is a device that will record accidents as they happen. There is a camera lens located in the rear and front bumper of the vehicle and one by the rear view mirror for a drivers eye view. There will be a little box that will record the entire camera'"'"'s data. The cameras will start recording once you start the car, and turn off when you turn off the car. The cameras will record in a looping cycle (similar to security video); the looping cycle will be about 20 seconds or more. Once the trigger pins in the bumpers are activated (similar to the triggering of air bags, but a little more sensitive then air bags, so if you hit a person or something, it should record it), the recording will stop. Thus catching everything that happened prior to the triggering of the stop pins, so everything that happened in the last 20 seconds (or more) will be caught on camera. The data will be easy to transfer. The main box in the vehicle will have a memory stick that can be loaded into any computer or digital camera.

Claims

1. I, Kent Simpson claim as my invention, the Safety Cam. This device will record accidents as they happen. There is a camera lens located in the rear and front bumper of the vehicle and one by the rear view mirror for a drivers eye view. There will be a little box that will record the entire camera'"'"'s data. The cameras will start recording once you start the car, and turn off when you turn off the car. The cameras will record in a looping cycle (similar to security video);

the looping cycle will be about 20 seconds or more. Once the trigger pins in the bumpers are activated (similar to the triggering of air bags, but a little more sensitive then air bags, so if you hit a person or something, it should record it), the recording will stop. Thus catching everything that happened prior to the triggering of the stop pins, so everything that happened in the last 20 seconds (or more) will be caught on camera. The data will be easy to transfer. The main box in the vehicle will have a memory stick that can be loaded into any computer or digital camera.

There will be different models of this device. Some models might have more cameras to cover other angles. Other models might have a manual button in the car somewhere so they can stop the recording manually. Or there might be models that have a memory stick for each camera, or one memory stick, recording in a split view screen.

This will tell who was really at fault in the occurring accident. The data can be used by the police, the lawyers, and in the courts. Insurance fraud will be a little harder, and closing an accident case will be quicker.