Apparatus and Method for Recording Data Associated with a Vehicle

• US 20180007323A1
• Filed: 09/19/2017
• Published: 01/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG), Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG), Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Botusescu, Adrian, Buerger, Carsten, Seiculescu, Ciprian, Vladaia, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/709,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20180007323A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/01 Conversion of standards , e.g. involving analogue television standards or digital television standards processed at pixel level
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8045 using predictive coding

Abstract

The present invention provides to a recording apparatus and method for recording data, in particular video data associated with a vehicle. Video data are only recorded, as long as a predefined trigger event is true. Upon detecting such a trigger event, the trigger event is further analyzed and the recording of the video data is immediately stopped when it is detected that the trigger event is no longer valid. In this way, the recording of the video data can be limited for reducing the amount of video data to be stored. According to further embodiments, the amount of video data to be recorded can be further minimized by adapting the video frame rate, the resolution, and compression rate or color format of the video data.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus for recording data associated with a vehicle, comprising:

a camera for providing video data;

a trigger detector for detecting a predefined trigger event; and

a data recorder adapted to start recording video data provided by said camera upon detecting the predefined trigger event by said trigger detector;

wherein said trigger detector verifies the detected trigger event while recording video data by said data recorder and said data recorder stops recording video data if the detected trigger event becomes invalid.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data recorder is recording video data for a predetermined time period or said data recorder is recording a predetermined number of frames when a trigger event is detected by said trigger detector.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data recorder is adapted to record further data in association with said recorded video data.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said further data is data related to said detected trigger event.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a cyclic memory for continuously storing video data provided by said camera;

wherein said data recorder is adapted to record data stored in said cyclic memory upon detecting the predefined trigger event by said trigger detector.

6. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said trigger detector is adapted to detect the predefined trigger event based on the video data provided by said camera.

7. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said trigger detector is adapted to detect a trigger event based on an acceleration, a distance to an object, a speed and/or a driving style and/or the trigger event is validated by a country code.

8. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data recorder is adapted to encrypt the data to be recorded and recording the encrypted data.

9. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a video data converter, adapted to convert the video data provided by said camera from a first format to a second format,

wherein said data recorder recording the video data in the second format.

10. The recording apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said video data converter is adapted to convert a frame rate, resolution, compression and/or color format of the video data.

11. The recording apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the video data converter is adapted to convert the video data depending on an available storage capacity of the data recorder.

12. The recording apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the video data converter is adapted to convert the video data based on a speed.

13. A vehicle comprising:

a recoding apparatus for recording data associated with said vehicle, including;

a camera for providing video data,

a trigger detector for detecting a predefined trigger event, and

a data recorder adapted to start recording video data provided by said camera upon detecting the predefined trigger event by said trigger detector,

wherein said trigger detector verifies the detected trigger event while recording video data by said data recorder and said data recorder stops recording video data if the detected trigger event becomes invalid.

14. A recording method for recording data associated with a vehicle, comprising:

receiving video data from a camera;

detecting a predefined trigger event;

recording the received video data upon detecting the predefined trigger event;

verifying the trigger event while recording the video data; and

terminating the recording of video data if the detected trigger event becomes invalid.

15. The recording method according to claim 14, further comprising converting the received video data from a first format to a second format, wherein the recoding step records the converted video data.