VEHICLE-BASED MEDIA CONTENT CAPTURE AND REMOTE SERVICE INTEGRATION

• US 20150271452A1
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: GUZMAN, Christian Castro
• Application Number:
  US14/221,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20150271452A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00106 using land mobile radio networks, e.g. mobile telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00116 of multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/20 Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite

Abstract

A vehicle may include at least one media content capture device. The vehicle may further include a controller in communication with the at least one media content capture device and configured to, responsive to a user request, capture a media content instance using the at least one media content capture device according to media content capture settings of the vehicle, and post the media content instance to an account of a remote service associated with the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

at least one media content capture device; and

a controller in communication with the at least one media content capture device and configured to;

responsive to a user request, capture a media content instance using the at least one media content capture device according to media content capture settings of the vehicle, and

post the media content instance to an account of a remote service associated with the vehicle.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to store the media content instance on a persistent memory of the controller.

3. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to receive the request to capture the media content instance from a nomadic device associated with the user and in communication with the vehicle.

4. The vehicle of claim 3, wherein the request is provided to the vehicle via at least one of:

(i) a short message service message from the nomadic device to a modem of the vehicle, (ii) a network device configured to provide the request to the vehicle responsive to a request received from the nomadic device, and (iii) via a direct network connection between the nomadic device to the vehicle.

5. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the media content capture settings include an indication of which of the at least one media content capture device to use to capture the media content instance.

6. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the media content instance further includes metadata including an identifier of the vehicle.

7. The vehicle of claim 1 wherein the media content instance further includes metadata including a geographic location of the vehicle when the media content instance was captained, and a date and time at which the media content instance was captured.

8. A method comprising:

responsive to a user request, capturing, by a controller of a vehicle in communication with at least one media content capture device of the vehicle, a media content instance using the at least one media content capture device of the vehicle according to media content capture settings of the vehicle, and

posting the media content instance to an account of a remote service associated with the vehicle.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising storing the media content instance on a persistent memory of the controller.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving the request to capture the media content instance from a nomadic device associated with the user and in communication with the vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving the user request according to at least one of:

(i) a short message service message from the nomadic device to a modem of the vehicle, (ii) a network device providing the request to the vehicle responsive to a request received from the nomadic device, and (iii) via a direct network connection between the nomadic device to the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the media content capture settings include an indication of which of the at least one media content capture device to use to capture the media content instance.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising including metadata in the media content instance including:

an identifier of the vehicle, a geographic location of the vehicle when the media content instance was captained, and a date and time at which the media content instance was captured.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that when executed by a controller of a vehicle are configured to cause the controller to:

responsive to a user request, capture, by the controller in communication with at least one media content capture device of the vehicle, a media content instance using the at least one media content capture device of the vehicle according to media content capture settings of the vehicle, and

post the media content instance to an account of a remote service associated with the vehicle.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further including instructions configured to cause the controller to store the media content instance on a persistent memory of the controller.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further including instructions configured to cause the controller to receive the request to capture the media content instance from a nomadic device associated with the user and in communication with the vehicle.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, further including instructions configured to cause the controller to receive the user request according to at least one of:

(i) a short message service message from the nomadic device to a modem of the vehicle, (ii) a network device providing the request to the vehicle responsive to a request received from the nomadic device, and (iii) via a direct network connection between the nomadic device to the vehicle.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the media content capture settings include an indication of which of the at least one media content capture device to use to capture the media content instance.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further including instructions configured to cause the controller to include metadata in the media content instance including:

an identifier of the vehicle, a geographic location of the vehicle when the media content instance was captained, and a date and time at which the media content instance was captured.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further including instructions configured to cause the controller to upload the media content instance to an account of a vehicle content remote service configured to host media content instances captured by vehicles, the account of the vehicle content remote service being identified by the controller to the vehicle content remote service based at least in part on vehicle identification number (VIN).