VEHICLE VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE

• US 20080259160A1
• Filed: 10/23/2007
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morimitsu, Kazuya, Ubukata, Makoto, Mitsuo, Takayuki
• Application Number:
  US11/877,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20080259160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera

Abstract

A vehicle video recording device includes surveillance cameras, an electronic memory for temporarily storing the videos shot by the cameras, a hard disk drive (HDD) for receiving and storing the video data from the electronic memory, a running environmental data memory for storing the running environmental data along a route, on which the vehicle runs, which data affects the recording performance of the HDD, and a recording controller for controlling transmission and recording of the video from the electronic memory to the HDD during a route section, where the recording performance of the HDD does not lower, based on the running environmental data. This structure allows saving the recording device from having sensors, and yet, the video recording device can positively records the video shot by the cameras even if vibration or impact happens.

Claims

1. A vehicle video recording device installed in the vehicle running along a regular route, which device comprising:

a surveillance camera for monitoring an interior of the vehicle;

an electronic memory for temporarily storing a video shot by the surveillance camera;

a hard disk drive (HDD) for recording video data sent from the electronic memory;

a running environmental data memory for storing running environmental data along the route, which data affects recording performance of the HDD; and

a recording controller for controlling such that the video can be transferred from the electronic memory to the HDD and recorded into the HDD during a route section, where the recording performance of the HDD does not lower, based on the running environmental data.

2. The vehicle video recording device of claim 1, wherein the running environmental data includes positive and negative acceleration data in response to a place or a time in increasing a speed, applying a brake, and running on a curve while the vehicle runs.

3. The vehicle video recording device of claim 1, wherein the running environmental data includes data at least one of vibration and impact of an entire route.

4. The vehicle video recording device of claim 1 further comprising an external control data input section, wherein the recording controller controls transfer and recording of the video from the electronic memory to the HDD based on a signal of switching a control of a write operation from/to manual operation to/from automatic operation, which signal is supplied from an external device through the external control data input section, or based on data of vibration or impact sensed by an external sensor and supplied through the external control data input section, while the vehicle runs along the route.

5. The vehicle video recording device of claim 3 or claim 4, wherein the data of vibration and impact contains information of a frequency, intensity, and phase of the vibration and the impact applied to the HDD.

6. The vehicle video recording device of claim 4 further comprising a communication means between the video recording device and an operation control center, wherein the vehicle receives emergency information from the operation control center while the vehicle runs along the route, and the recording controller transfers the video from the electronic memory to the HDD and records the video in the HDD based on the emergency information.

7. The vehicle video recording device of claim 6, wherein the emergency information refers to one of an accident, earthquake, abnormal weather, and a happening.