WEARABLE CAMERA SYSTEM AND RECORDING CONTROL METHOD

• US 20190082137A1
• Filed: 11/14/2018
• Published: 03/14/2019
• 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 10,939,066 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

Provided is a wearable camera including a capture that captures a subject; a recorder that records a video of the captured subject; a storage that stores a predetermined sound beforehand; a microphone that collects sounds; and a controller that starts record of the video of the subject captured by the capture in a case where the sounds collected by the microphone and the sound stored in the storage are collated with each other, and the collected sounds and the stored sound match with each other.

Claims

1. A wearable camera connectable to an external server, the wearable camera comprising:

a capture that captures a subject;

a recorder that records a video of the captured subject;

a storage that stores a predetermined sound beforehand;

a microphone that collects sounds; and

a controller that performs an emergency transmission to the external server in a case where the sounds collected by the microphone and the sound stored in the storage are collated with each other.

2. The wearable camera of claim 1,

wherein the storage stores at least one of a gunshot, a sound that a person with the wearable camera is fell down, and an explosion sound as the sound to be stored.

3. The wearable camera of claim 1,

wherein the wearable camera and the external server communicate with each other via wireless network.

4. The wearable camera of claim 1, further comprising:

an emergency button,

wherein in a case where the emergency button is pressed, communication with the external server is immediately started.

5. The wearable camera of claim 1,

wherein the controller transmits video data captured by the capture to the external server.

6. The wearable camera of claim 5,

wherein the transmitted video data is displayable at the external server.

7. The wearable camera of claim 1,

wherein the controller cuts out a section of the sounds collected by the microphone to generate sound data and collates the generated sound data with the sound stored in the storage.

8. A method of starting record by using a wearable camera,

the wearable camera including

a capture that captures a subject,

a recorder that records a video of the captured subject,

a storage that stores a predetermined sound beforehand, and

a microphone that collects sounds,

the method comprising:

performsing an emergency transmission to the external server in a case where the sounds collected by the microphone and the sound stored in the storage are collated with each other.