Incident Recording Apparatus
First Claim
1. Incident recording apparatus comprising means for receiving data from a camera and/or a microphone, a housing having an ejection slot, a plurality of discrete memory cards within the housing, means within the housing for cyclically recording data received from the camera and/or microphone onto the memory cards in sequence from one memory card to the next, overwriting the cards on completion of each cycle, and means for ejecting at least the memory card on which data is currently being recorded in response to the occurrence of a predetermined incident.
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Abstract
The housing, for example of a mobile phone equipped with a camera and a microphone, contains a plurality of discrete memory cards and means for recording data received from the camera and microphone cyclically onto the cards in sequence, overwriting after a given time interval. In the event of seizure of the phone, or if it is dropped, the current memory card is ejected, thus providing a record of the incident to be found, e.g. by the police even though the phone itself may have been stolen. The memory card is so small that the attacker is unlikely to be aware of it. Another application of the apparatus is to a vehicle. Just as violent deceleration actuates air bags it will also cause ejection of the current memory card to provide a record of the accident.
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- 1. Incident recording apparatus comprising means for receiving data from a camera and/or a microphone, a housing having an ejection slot, a plurality of discrete memory cards within the housing, means within the housing for cyclically recording data received from the camera and/or microphone onto the memory cards in sequence from one memory card to the next, overwriting the cards on completion of each cycle, and means for ejecting at least the memory card on which data is currently being recorded in response to the occurrence of a predetermined incident.
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