VEHICLE WITH HYPERLAPSE VIDEO AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

• US 20170028935A1
• Filed: 07/28/2015
• Published: 02/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: DUTTA, Arun, GROH, Alexander, VERSTER, Dylan, LLADO, Pol, HASSANI, Ali, SCHMOTZER, John William
• Granted Patent: US 10,870,398 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6181 involving transmission via a mobile phone network arrangements for providing broadcast or conference services to substation in data switching networks in combination with wireless systems H04L12/189; wireless uplink channel access H04W74/004

Abstract

A vehicle is described that includes a video camera configured to record video, a processor configured to process the recorded video from the video camera into hyperlapse video, and an input/output device to link the hyperlapse video with a social network associated with at least one of a driver of the vehicle and the vehicle. The processor may be configured to receive video data from the video camera and to create the hyperlapse video by reconstructing a video stream from the video data, planning a smooth path through the video stream, and rendering the video data along the smooth path into the hyperlapse video that has a faster speed and less jitter than the video stream. The hyperlapse video may be a non-native, sped-up video of the recorded video from the video camera.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a video camera to record video data;

a processor to reconstruct a video stream from the video data, plan a smooth path through the video stream, and render the video data along the smooth path into a hyperlapse video that has a faster speed and less jitter than the video stream while the video camera records additional video data; and

an input/output device to link the hyperlapse video with a social network.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the input/output device is a mobile phone.

3. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the input/output device includes a network communication device in the vehicle.

4. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the hyperlapse video is not a native, sped-up video of the recorded video.

5. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the video camera is further configured to record from vehicle activation and to store the recorded video in a memory in the vehicle.

7. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to initiate recording of the video data and generating of the hyperlapse video based on a location of the vehicle.

8. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to send the hyperlapse video to an external processor that is configured to combine the hyperlapse video with video from other sources.

9. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the input/output device includes an application on a mobile phone that connects to a computer in the vehicle and a computer of the social network.

6. (canceled)

10. A method for a vehicle comprising:

recording video data using a vehicle camera;

processing, using a vehicle processor, the video data into hyperlapse video;

outputting the hyperlapse video to a social network associated with at least one of a driver of the vehicle and the vehicle, and

wherein the recording and processing are initiated based on a location of the vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the outputting includes outputting the video through a portable device in communication with both the vehicle and the social network.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the outputting includes outputting the video over a network communication device in the vehicle.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the processing includes reconstructing a video stream from the video data, planning a smooth path through the video stream, and rendering the video data along the smooth path into the hyperlapse video that has a faster speed and less jitter than original video.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the hyperlapse video is not a native, sped-up video of the recorded video from the vehicle camera.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the recording begins with vehicle activation.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the recording includes receiving information from a source external to the vehicle that the vehicle is near an event trending in social media.

16. (canceled)

18. A method for sharing vehicle video data comprising:

by a computer,

reconstructing video frames via statistical modeling of video data,

identifying a path through the reconstructed video frames that minimizes data loss and smooths transitions between the reconstructed video frames,

rendering hyperlapse video using the identified path through the video data,

outputting the hyperlapse video from the vehicle to a social network; and

wherein the rendering includes creating the hyperlapse video to not be a native, sped-up video of the recorded video, and further comprising recording from vehicle activation and storing the recorded video in a memory in the vehicle before reconstructing, identifying and rendering.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the rendering is performed while a video camera records additional video data.

19. (canceled)

21. A vehicle comprising:

a video camera configured to record video data from vehicle activation and to store the recorded video in a memory in the vehicle;

a processor configured to reconstruct a video stream from the video data, plan a smooth path through the video stream, and render the video data along the smooth path into a hyperlapse video that has a faster speed and less jitter than the video stream; and

an input/output device configured to link the hyperlapse video with a social network.

22. The vehicle of claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to initiate recording of the video data and generating of the hyperlapse video based on a location of the vehicle.

23. The vehicle of claim 22, wherein the processor is further configured to send the hyperlapse video to an external processor that is configured to combine the hyperlapse video with video from other sources.

24. The vehicle of claim 23, wherein the input/output device includes an application on a mobile phone that connects to a computer in the vehicle and a computer of the social network.

25. A method for a vehicle comprising:

recording video data using a vehicle camera;

processing, using a vehicle processor, the video data into hyperlapse video;

outputting the hyperlapse video to a social network associated with at least one of a driver of the vehicle and the vehicle, and

wherein the recording includes receiving information from a source external to the vehicle that the vehicle is near an event trending in social media.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the recording begins with vehicle activation.