In-vehicle mobile digital video surveillance recorder system with GPS visual mapping and navigation
First Claim
1. A mobile digital video surveillance recorder system for a vehicle comprising:
- a mobile digital video surveillance recorder (MDVSR) carried by the vehicle, said MDVSR having a plurality of channel inputs and a memory;
at least one camera carried by said vehicle and connected to one of said plurality of channel inputs and providing video images taken by said camera to said MDVSR for recording on said memory;
a GPS navigation module carried by said vehicle and connected to another of said plurality of channel inputs and providing video navigation images to said MDVSR for recording on said memory;
said MDVSR including a synchronizing component for time-synchronizing the recording of said camera images and said navigation images using time and date information from said GPS module so that each camera image can be mapped to a vehicle location when the image was taken; and
a viewing device capable of visually displaying said synchronized camera and navigation images concurrently.
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Abstract
A mobile digital video surveillance recorder with GPS mapping capability is provided that is carried by a vehicle and equipped with a plurality of channel inputs. An associated monitor can be carried by the vehicle to allow the driver to view the camera images being recorded real-time, or the monitor can be located remotely for playback and review of the recorded images at a later time. The monitor displays a split screen that can display one or more images as taken from different cameras. Video feed from an associated GPS navigation system is piped into one of the video channel inputs such that GPS location with mapping is visually displayed as one of the remaining split-screen images on the monitor. The displayed data therefore presents concurrent images of camera video and GPS video feed so that the specific location of the vehicle at the time a camera image was recorded is presented.
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19 Claims
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1. A mobile digital video surveillance recorder system for a vehicle comprising:
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a mobile digital video surveillance recorder (MDVSR) carried by the vehicle, said MDVSR having a plurality of channel inputs and a memory; at least one camera carried by said vehicle and connected to one of said plurality of channel inputs and providing video images taken by said camera to said MDVSR for recording on said memory; a GPS navigation module carried by said vehicle and connected to another of said plurality of channel inputs and providing video navigation images to said MDVSR for recording on said memory; said MDVSR including a synchronizing component for time-synchronizing the recording of said camera images and said navigation images using time and date information from said GPS module so that each camera image can be mapped to a vehicle location when the image was taken; and a viewing device capable of visually displaying said synchronized camera and navigation images concurrently. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A mobile digital video surveillance recorder system as installed on a moving vehicle moving from one location to another comprising:
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a mobile digital video surveillance recorder (MDVSR) carried by the moving vehicle and having at least four channel inputs and a memory; at least one camera carried by said vehicle and connected to one of said channel inputs and providing video images taken by said camera to said MDVSR for recording on said memory; a GPS navigation module carried by said vehicle and connected to another of said four channel inputs and providing navigation images to said MDVSR for recording on said memory; and said MDVSR including a synchronizing component for time-synchronizing the recording of video images taken by one or more cameras and said navigation images using time and date information from said GPS module so that each camera image is mapped to the vehicle location when the image was taken and can be viewed in conjunction with said location during playback of said stored video and navigation images. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of interconnecting a mobile digital video surveillance recorder having a plurality of channel inputs and an associated monitor with a GPS navigation system on a moving vehicle comprising:
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connecting one of the channel inputs to the GPS navigation system to record GPS navigation data; connecting one or more of the other channel inputs to a respective number of cameras positioned in the vehicle to record occurrences on the vehicle; recording said GPS navigation data and said camera images and storing said data and images on a synchronized basis on a memory associated with said mobile digital video surveillance recorder so that each camera image can be mapped to a vehicle location when the image was taken; and viewing the synchronized images on said monitor which displays a split screen with a plurality of views, one of said views corresponding with the output from the GPS navigation system and the other view or views on the monitor displaying images recorded by the camera or cameras, respectively. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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