PORTABLE DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA CONFIGURED FOR REMOTE IMAGE ACQUISITION CONTROL AND VIEWING
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A wearable digital video camera (10) is equipped with wireless connection protocol and global navigation and location positioning system technology to provide remote image acquisition control and viewing. The Bluetooth® packet-based open wireless technology standard protocol (400) is preferred for use in providing control signals or streaming data to the digital video camera and for accessing image content stored on or streaming from the digital video camera. The GPS technology (402) is preferred for use in tracking of the location of the digital video camera as it records image information. A rotating mount (300) with a locking member (330) on the camera housing (22) allows adjustment of the pointing angle of the wearable digital video camera when it is attached to a mounting surface.
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14. An integrated, hands-free, portable, viewfinder less point of view digital video camera, comprising:
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a lens; a camera housing; a battery located within the camera housing; an image sensor located within the camera housing, the image sensor capturing light propagating through the lens and producing real time video image data; a wireless connection device located within the camera housing and configured to send image content by wireless transmission directly to and receive control signals by wireless transmission directly from a wireless connection-enabled controller; and a camera processor located within the camera housing and configured to; receive the video image data directly or indirectly from the image sensor, generate from the video image data, first video image content at a first resolution, communicate the first video image content using the wireless connection device to the wireless connection-enabled controller, receive the control signals from the wireless connection-enabled controller, adjust at least one of a video setting and an audio setting of the video camera prior to recording based at least in part on the control signals, and in response to a record command, cause the first video image content and second video image content at a second resolution to be stored at the video camera, wherein the second video image content is generated from the video image data and the first resolution is lower than the second resolution, and wherein the wireless connection-enabled controller comprises executable instructions for execution on a handheld personal portable computing device, wherein when executed, the executable instructions cause the handheld personal portable computing device to; receive the first video image content from the wireless connection device, display at least a portion of the first video image content on a display of the handheld personal portable computing device, display the video setting and the audio setting of the video camera on the display, generate the control signals based at least in part on input received at the handheld personal portable computing device, wherein the input indicates a change to at least one of the video setting and the audio setting, and communicate the control signals to the wireless connection device.
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