Article of clothing

• US 9,445,031 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2014
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matt Sandy
• Original Assignee: Matt Sandy
• Inventors: Sandy, Matt
• Primary Examiner(s): Velez, Roberto
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLEMAN, STEPHEN P
• Application Number:
  US14/120,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20150189133A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/006 comprising a suspension strap or lanyard
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

An article of clothing has at least one element of clothing wearable by a user, and a recording camera constructed to operate wirelessly associated with the element of clothing and carrying out recording processes while being associated with the element of clothing.

Claims

1. An article of clothing, comprising

at least one element of clothing wearable by a user on the torso of the user to cover the torso of the user;

and

a recording camera arranged on the outside of the surface of said element of clothing and constructed for carrying out a recording process while being associated with said element of clothing that is wearable by a user on the torso of the user to cover the torso of the user, wherein said recording camera has a built in touch sensor whereby, instead of pressing a button on the camera, the user can physically tap the camera body to activate digital image or a digital video recording, wherein said digital image or video recording is storeable in the internal memory of the said camera upon tapping, wherein said camera is settable to continuously record visual image data and upon the user tapping said camera body, said camera will only save to its internal memory the visual recordings of the last number of minutes previously selected by the user.

2. An article of clothing as defined in claim 1 wherein said camera is constructed to wirelessly stream live visual image data in real time to a data server so that the visual images said camera is streaming in real time to a data server can be observed by users remotely connected to said data server.

3. An article of clothing as defined in claim 1, wherein said camera is constructed to carry out recordings selected from the group consisting of an audio recording, a video recording, digital image recording, automated digital image recording, a video recording to record over a certain time or over a number of periods, and combinations thereof, wherein said recording camera is constructed as a wirelessly operated recording camera that is controllable wirelessly by a remotely operating controlling device to enable said recording camera to carry out the recording process, and said recording camera can transfer wirelessly to said remotely operating controlling device the images, video recordings and/or audio messages recorded by said camera so that the said remotely operating controlling device can store, exchange and/or reproduce said images, videos recordings and/or audio messages recorded by said recording camera.

4. An article of clothing as defined in claim 3, wherein said recording camera has a plurality of sensing elements arrangeable on various sides of said element of clothing and constructed to carry out recording on said sides to provide a panoramic and/or 360 degree recording.

5. An article of clothing as defined in claim 3, wherein said element of clothing has at least one receptacle in which said recording camera is receivable, wherein the article of clothing has a hole through which the lens objective of the camera remains unobstructed while residing in the receptacle, so that the only the lens objective of the camera is visible on the surface of the article of clothing.

6. A clothing accessory as defined in claim 3, wherein the duration of the said visual recordings is changeable by the user with a remotely wireless operating device.

7. An article of clothing, comprising

at least one element of clothing wearable by a user on the torso of the user to cover the torso of the user;

and

a recording camera constructed as a wirelessly operated recording camera arranged on the outside of the surface of said element of clothing that is wearable by a user on the torso of the user to cover the torso of the user, further comprising a cover piece constructed as an ornamental cover piece which covers one surface of the recording camera, wherein the recording camera has an objective which is exposed on said one surface of said camera, wherein said ornamental cover piece is a single piece detachably attachable to said one surface of said recording camera in surface-to-surface contact with said one surface of said recording camera to cover only said one surface of said recording camera and has an opening through which said objective of said recording camera is exposed, wherein said camera is settable to continuously record visual image data whereby upon the user tapping said camera body, said camera will only save to its internal memory the visual recordings of the last number of minutes previously selected by the user.

8. An article of clothing as defined in claim 7, wherein said camera has a built in touch sensor, so that it is controllable by physically tapping the said camera, rather than by pressing a control button on the camera, in order to record a digital image or to record a digital video recording, wherein said digital image and/or video recording is storable in the internal memory of the said camera upon tapping.

9. An article of clothing as defined in claim 7, wherein the duration of the said retro saved video recordings is changeable by the user with a remotely wireless operating device.

10. An article of clothing as defined in claim 7, wherein said camera is constructed to carry out recordings selected from the group consisting of an audio recording, a video recording, digital image recording, automated digital image recording, a video recording to record over a certain time or over a number of periods, and combinations thereof, wherein said recording camera is constructed as a wirelessly operated recording camera that is controllable wirelessly by a remotely operating controlling device to enable said recording camera to carry out the recording process, and said recording camera can transfer wirelessly to said remotely operating controlling device the images, video recordings and/or audio messages recorded by said camera so that the said remotely operating controlling device can store, exchange and/or reproduce said images, videos recordings and/or audio messages recorded by said recording camera.

11. An article of clothing as defined in claim 10, wherein said recording camera has a plurality of sensing elements arrangeable on various sides of said element of clothing and constructed to carry out recording on said sides to provide a panoramic and/or 360 degree recording.

12. An article of clothing as defined in claim 10, wherein the said camera is attachabable to the article of clothing with a magnet clip that attaches from the inside of the article of clothing to the said camera on the outside of the article of clothing by way of magnetizing, by attaching said camera to the article of clothing with a clip to the outside of the article of clothing, or wearing said camera around the neck by attaching said camera to a lanyard or necklace of any material.

13. An article of clothing as defined in claim 10, wherein the activating element control button of the camera is customizable to perform different recording functions by instructing it with a software application on a remote device wirelessly connected to the camera.

14. An article of clothing as defined in claim 10, wherein said camera has a built in touch sensor, so that it is controllable by physically tapping the said camera, rather than by pressing a control button on the camera, in order to record a digital image or to record a digital video recording, wherein said digital image and/or video recording is storeable in the internal memory of the said camera upon tapping.

15. An article of clothing as defined in claim 14, wherein the duration of the said retro saved video recordings is changeable by the user with a remotely wireless operating device.

16. An article of clothing as defined in claim 14, wherein the said camera is attachable to the article of clothing with a magnet clip that attaches from the inside of the article of clothing to the said camera on the outside of the article of clothing by way of magnetizing, by attaching said camera to the article of clothing with a clip to the outside of the article of clothing, or wearing said camera around the neck by attaching said camera to a lanyard or necklace of any material.