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DIGITAL VIDEO CAMCORDER WITH WIRELESS TRANSMISSION BUILT-IN

  • US 20090185792A1
  • Filed: 01/18/2008
  • Published: 07/23/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A digital video player and recorder (camcorder), comprising:

  • a lens to supply images to a digital video image sensor;

    a digital audio sensor;

    camera'"'"'s application software to use an internal memory to store digital video footage including video images captured by the digital video image sensor and sound data recorded by the digital audio sensor;

    a microphone to capture audio frequencies corresponding to captured images and supplies the sound to the digital audio sensor, where both the recorded images and recorded sound are combined into captured video footage;

    a Wi-Fi module to encode audio only data files as well as video data files into packets to be transmitted at frequencies and data rates established by a Wi-Fi standard, where the data in the transmitted packets is compressed;

    an antenna connected to the Wi-Fi module to transmit and receive the packets wirelessly as radio frequency waves at transmitted frequencies and data rates established by the Wi-Fi standard to and from a Wi-Fi enabled router base station and then to a server of an instant messaging communication system that uses the Internet and then onto another target computing device capable of playing and displaying video files;

    a soft phone client application resident on the digital video player and recorder that has code to facilitate making phone calls over the Internet by breaking audio only and video data into the packets, formatting the packets into compliance with a protocol of the instant messaging communication system, encoding the server'"'"'s IP address into the packets, associating the target computing device'"'"'s phone number or network address with the packets, and specially marking the packets that contain video data;

    a processing unit to execute the camera'"'"'s application software that operates the digital video camera as well as the instructions of the soft phone client application;

    a digital viewfinder having a display to allow a user to see the images in a target area to be captured in the digital video footage and then recorded in the internal memory;

    a video compression component to compress a size of the captured video footage;

    a Direct Current power source to power the digital viewfinder, the processing unit, the internal memory, the Wi-Fi module, the digital video image sensor, and the digital audio sensor; and

    a camera body to house the digital video image sensor;

    the processing unit, the internal memory, the Wi-Fi module; and

    the digital audio sensor.

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