Distributed mobile surveillance system and method

• US 20090122142A1
• Filed: 11/03/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bruce Douglas Shapley
• Original Assignee: Bruce Douglas Shapley
• Inventors: Shapley, Bruce Douglas
• Application Number:
  US12/290,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20090122142A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves

Abstract

A method of gathering evidence of a crime or terrorist incident comprises surveilling an area with one or more cameras and, optionally, one or more audio pick-ups (e.g., microphones) installed in or on a large number of automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles. Evidence of an incident may be collected and processed for use by law-enforcement officials in identifying perpetrators and may be used before a grand jury or court-of-law.

Claims

1. A distributed mobile surveillance system comprising:

one or more on-vehicle acquisition, storage and communication systems for acquiring, storing and transmitting video information; and

a central collection and processing point electrically connectable to the one or more on-vehicle acquisition, storage and communication systems for collecting and processing the video information acquired by the one or more on-vehicle acquisition, storage and communication systems.

2. A method for use of a distributed mobile surveillance system, the method comprising:

entering a location, time and date of an incident;

sending the entered location, time and date of the incident to one or more on-vehicle acquisition, storage and communication systems;

receiving video data recorded at or near the location, time and date of the incident by the one or more on-vehicle acquisition, storage and communication systems;

consolidating the received video data; and

creating a presentation of the consolidated video data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the entering step additionally comprises the entering of a range of locations and a range of time.