Geo-location video archive system and method

• US 8,880,718 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2012
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aware Incorporated (Crowley Holdings Preferred LLC)
• Original Assignee: AFIX Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Caudle, Derald E., Vitt, Joan L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gee, Jason K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ullah, Sharif E
• Application Number:
  US13/412,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20120224826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 709/231, 709/213, 709/216, 386/224, 726/22, 726/25, 370/351
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor

Abstract

A system and method for recording, uploading, and archiving video recordings, including a front-end and a back-end application. The preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a front-end application wherein video is recorded using a mobile device. The recorded video is embedded with date, time and GPS location data. The video is stored on an online back-end database which catalogs the video according to the embedded data elements. The video may be selectively reviewed by relevant experts or emergency personnel for immediate response to the uploaded video and/or distribution to the proper parties. The video may also be archived for later review and use by any number of end-users.

Claims

1. A video archival system comprising:

a computer network capable of receiving and transmitting data;

a plurality of mobile personal computing devices, each including a camera, an antenna, a processor, memory storage storing a first mobile application, and a positional reference device;

said mobile personal computing devices wirelessly connected to said computer network such that it is capable of delivering data from said mobile device to said network;

a stationary computing device including a database server with memory storage storing a second mobile application, a processor, and an archive database;

said stationary computing device connected to said computer network such that it is capable of delivering data from said mobile device to said network;

wherein data is transmitted from said plurality of multiple personal computing devices to said computer network and is received by said stationary computing device and stored onto said archive database in a front-end mobile application of said system;

characteristic data embedded into each of said slices, said characteristic data capable of identifying the mobile personal computing device from which said slice originated;

wherein said slices are stored in said archive database based upon which mobile device said slices originated;

wherein said slices are stored such that adjacent sections of captured video-data are contiguous;

a computing device including a video review back-end application wherein said video data is categorized and inspected by an expert, and results of said categorization and inspection are embedded into said video data;

said computing device video review back-end application including a determination of location via longitude and latitude using video collected from said front-end mobile application;

said computing device video review back-end application determining if the video is within a current site software installation, routing the video to an appropriate emergency authority with the location; and

if said video is not within a current site software installation, routing the recorded video to a call center specialist for contacting an appropriate public safety answer point jurisdiction for an emergency response based upon the location of the submitted video.

2. The video archival system of claim 1, further comprising:

wherein said camera is capable of capturing high-resolution video data; and

wherein said high-resolution video data is stored onto said mobile personal computing device memory.

3. The video archival system of claim 2, further comprising:

said high-resolution video data recorded and stored in slices, and wherein said slices are between one and ten seconds long;

said first mobile application adapted to instruct said mobile personal computing device to transmit said slices to said computer network; and

said stationary computing device adapted to receive said slices from said computer network and stores those slices onto said archive database.

4. The video archival system of claim 1, further comprising:

wherein said mobile device processor produces date-stamp and time-stamp data when said high-resolution video data is captured; and

wherein said date-stamp and time-stamp data are embedded into said high-resolution video data at the moment said video is captured.

5. The video archival system of claim 4, further comprising:

wherein said positional reference device is a global positioning system (GPS) capable of reporting geographic coordinates; and

wherein the GPS coordinates of said mobile personal computing device are embedded into said high-resolution video data at the moment said video is captured.

6. The video archival system of claim 1, further comprising:

a remote user application stored on said stationary computing device and accessible by remote users connected to said computer network; and

wherein said video data uploaded to said archive database is accessible and viewable by said users at remote locations.

7. A method of archiving data, the method comprising the steps:

providing a plurality of mobile personal computing devices, each said device including a camera, an antenna, a processor, memory storage storing a first mobile application, and a positional reference device;

providing a stationary computing device including a database server with memory storage storing a second mobile application, a processor, and an archive database;

connecting said mobile computing devices and said stationary computing device to a computer network;

capturing mobile data using said mobile personal computing devices;

transmitting said mobile data from said mobile devices to said computer network;

receiving said mobile data from said computer network with said stationary computing device;

storing said mobile data onto said archive database;

embedding characteristic data embedded into each of said slices, said characteristic data capable of identifying the mobile personal computing device from which said slice originated;

storing said slices in said archive database based upon which mobile device said slices originated;

wherein said slices are stored such that adjacent sections of captured video-data are contiguous;

providing a computing device including a video review back-end application wherein said video data is categorized and inspected by an expert, and results of said categorization and inspection are embedded into said video data;

said computing device video review back-end application including a determination of location via longitude and latitude using video collected from said front-end mobile application;

said computing device video review back-end application determining if the video is within a current site software installation, routing the video to an appropriate emergency authority with the location; and

if said video is not within a current site software installation, routing the recorded video to a call center specialist for contacting an appropriate public safety answer point jurisdiction for an emergency response based upon the location of the submitted video.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said camera is capable of capturing high-resolution video data, the method further comprising the step:

storing high-resolution video data onto said mobile personal computing device memory.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the steps:

transmitting said high-resolution video data from said mobile device in a plurality of slices, wherein each slice contains between one and ten seconds of video data; and

storing said slices onto said archive database.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps:

embedding characteristic data into said slices, said characteristic data identifying the mobile personal computing device from which said slice originated;

storing said slices in said archive database based upon which mobile device said slices originated; and

storing said slices such that adjacent portions of captured video-data are contiguous.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps:

producing date-stamp and time-stamp data at the time said high-resolution video is captured; and

embedding said date-stamp and time-stamp data into said high-resolution video data.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said positional reference device is a global positioning system (GPS) capable of reporting geographic coordinates, the method further comprising the steps:

producing GPS coordinates using said positional reference device; and

embedding said GPS coordinates into said high-resolution video data.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps:

providing a video review application capable of accessing said high-resolution video data;

providing access to said video review application to an expert;

receiving categorization and inspection data from said expert; and

embedding said categorization and inspection data into said high-resolution video data.

14. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps;

providing a remote user application;

storing said remote user application onto said stationary computing device memory storage;

providing access to said remote user application to a plurality of remote users; and

allowing stored high-resolution video data to be viewed by said remote users via said user application.