WEARABLE CAMERA SYSTEM AND RECORDING CONTROL METHOD

• US 20170085829A1
• Filed: 09/09/2016
• Published: 03/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: I-Pro Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Waniguchi, Kazuya, Hagio, Minoru
• Granted Patent: US 9,819,896 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/802 involving processing of the sound signal H04N9/806, H04N9/835 take precedence

Abstract

A detector in MCU generates audio data by cutting out a section of the sounds collected by a microphone. A communicator transmits the generated audio data to a back end server. The back end server receives the audio data from a wearable camera. CPU collates the received audio data with audio data registered in an audio database. The communicator notifies the wearable camera of automatic start of the recording in a case where the received audio data and the registered audio data are matched with each other, as a result of collation. In a case of being notified of the instruction to start the recording from the server, the wearable camera starts the recording of a video captured by a capture.

Claims

1. A wearable camera system in which a wearable camera which is mounted on or belongs to a police officer is connected to a server,

wherein the wearable camera includes

a capture that captures a subject;

a recorder that records a video of the captured subject;

a microphone that collects sounds;

a detector that generates audio data by cutting out a section of the sounds collected by the microphone; and

a transmitter that transmits the generated audio data to the server,

wherein the server includes

a storage in which a predetermined audio data obtained during patrol or relating to an incident is registered;

a receiver that receives the audio data transmitted from the wearable camera;

a collator that collates the received audio data with the predetermined audio data registered in the storage; and

a notifier that notifies the wearable camera of an instruction to start recording in a case where the received audio data and the registered predetermined audio data are matched with each other, as a result of collation, and

wherein in a case of being notified of the instruction to start the recording from the server, the wearable camera starts the recording of a video of the subject captured by the capture.

2. The wearable camera system of claim 1,

wherein the storage registers audio data of sounds emitted in an emergency situation as the predetermined audio data,

wherein the server transmits a distribution instruction of the video to the wearable camera in a case where the received audio data is matched with the registered audio data of the sounds emitted in the emergency situation, and

wherein the wearable camera starts the distribution of the video of the subject captured by the capture based on the distribution instruction of the video transmitted from the server.

3. The wearable camera system of claim 1,

wherein the wearable camera includes a button which is operated in the emergency situation, and emergency information is transmitted to the server in a case where the button is operated,

wherein the server transmits the distribution instruction of the video to the wearable camera when receiving the emergency information which is transmitted from the wearable camera, and

wherein the wearable camera starts the distribution of the video of the subject captured by the capture based on the distribution instruction of the video transmitted from the server.

4. The wearable camera system of claim 1,

wherein a sound obtained during the patrol or relating to the incident, which is collected by the microphone is a sound of gunshot generated during the patrol or in a site of an incident.

5. A recording control method in the police officer wearable camera system in which a wearable camera which is mounted on or belongs to a police officer is connected to a server,

wherein the wearable camera includes a microphone, captures a subject, generates audio data by cutting out a section of sounds collected by the microphone, and transmits the generated audio data to the server,

wherein the server stores a predetermined audio data obtained during patrol or relating to an incident in a storage, receives the transmitted audio data from the wearable camera, collates the received audio data with the predetermined audio data registered in the storage, and notifies the wearable camera of an instruction to start recording in a case where the received audio data and the registered predetermined audio data are matched with each other, as a result of collation, and

wherein in a case where the notified of the instruction to start the recording is received from the server, the wearable camera starts the recording of a video of the captured subject.