Airborne digital video recorder

• US 20070090972A1
• Filed: 06/12/2006
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: e-Watch, Inc. (Cision Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: e-Watch, Inc. (Cision Ltd.)
• Inventors: Monroe, David, Browning, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US11/451,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20070090972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/945
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode

Abstract

An airborne digital video system comprising a first video router adapted to receive at least one aircraft data, at least one analog to digital converter adapted to receive a routed aircraft data form the first video router and at least one digital video recorder coupled to the analog to digital converter adapted to play digital aircraft data received from the analog to digital converter.

Claims

1. An airborne digital video system, comprising:

a first video router adapted to receive at least one aircraft data;

at least one analog to digital converter adapted to receive a routed aircraft data form the first video router; and

at least one digital video recorder coupled to the analog to digital converter adapted to play digital aircraft data received from the analog to digital converter.

2. The system of claim 1 comprising at least one sensor adapted to produce the at least one aircraft data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the aircraft data is at least one of:

an interior aircraft image;

an exterior aircraft image;

a combination of an interior aircraft image and an exterior aircraft image;

an interior aircraft video;

an exterior aircraft video; and

a combination of an interior aircraft video and an exterior aircraft video.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one sensor is positioned in at least one of a following location:

in an interior of the aircraft;

in an exterior of the aircraft;

in a combination of an interior of the aircraft and an exterior of the aircraft.

5. The system of claim 1 comprising memory coupled to the at least one digital video recorder, wherein the memory is adapted to perform at least one of a following action:

store the digital aircraft data; and

permit an access of the digital aircraft data.

6. The system of claim 1 comprising a transceiver coupled to the analog to digital converter, wherein the transceiver is adapted to transmit capture images to at least one of a following location:

a module on an aircraft;

a module on another aircraft; and

a module on the ground.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the module is at least one of:

a computer;

a phone; and

an electronic device capable of receiving and transmitting signals.

8. The system of claim 5 comprising a second video router coupled to the digital video recorder.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the second video router is adapted to receive the digital aircraft data from at least one of:

the memory; and

the digital video recorder.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the second video router is adapted to send the digital aircraft data to at least one of:

a display terminal in an aircraft; and

an electronic device in the aircraft.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the electronic device is at least one of:

mounted in the aircraft;

adapted to be attached to an individual in the aircraft;

adapted to be attached to an individual near the aircraft;

adapted to be utilized by an individual in the aircraft; and

adapted to be utilized by an individual near the aircraft.

12. A digital video system, comprising:

a video router adapted to receive at least one data;

at least one analog to digital converter adapted to receive a routed data form the first video router; and

at least one digital video recorder coupled to the analog to digital converter adapted to play data received from the analog to digital converter.

13. The digital video system of claim 12 comprising a system controller coupled to the digital video recorder.

14. The digital video system of claim 13 comprising a cockpit control terminal coupled to the system controller.

15. The digital video system of claim 13 comprising a digital to analog converter coupled to the digital video recorder and a video router adapted to output at least one data.

16. The digital video system of claim 15, wherein the cockpit control terminal controls the receiving video router, the analog to digital converter, the digital video recorder, the digital to analog converter, and the output video router.

17. The digital video system of claim 15 comprising a multi-function display device coupled to the system controller, wherein the multi-function display device controls the receiving video router, the analog to digital converter, the digital video recorder, the digital to analog converter, and the output video router.

18. The digital video system of claim 15 comprising a 1553 bus interface coupled to the system controller, wherein the multi-function display device controls the receiving video router, the analog to digital converter, the digital video recorder, the digital to analog converter, and the output video router.

19. A method for providing digital video data, comprising:

receiving data at an input video router from aircraft image sensors;

converting the received data at an analog to digital converter;

performing at least one of a following action to the digital data at a digital video recorder;

playing the digital data;

storing the digital data; and

controlling the digital data;

wherein the performing is provided by at least one of;

a cockpit control terminal;

a multi-function display device; and

a 1553 bus interface;

converting the performed action at a digital to analog converter;

receiving the converted data at an output video router; and

outputting the converted data to an aircraft display.

20. The method of claim 19, comprising controlling the input video router, the analog to digital converter, the digital video recorder, the digital to analog converter, and the output video router via an aircraft radio coupled to an aircraft data bus coupled to a bus interface coupled to a system controller coupled to the digital video recorder, wherein the controlling allows remote control of storage, playback, transmission and other system controls by other aircraft or by ground stations.