Drive recorder

• US 20100129064A1
• Filed: 11/06/2009
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Tonokawa, Fujio, Maeda, Munenori
• Application Number:
  US12/591,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20100129064A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a drive recorder capable of recording video information at the time of an accident or the like and constant recording. The drive recorder according to the present invention has a controller that constantly records information captured by the imaging unit onto a nonvolatile recording medium, and records information captured by the imaging unit onto a nonvolatile recording medium when a predetermined recording condition is established.

Claims

1. A drive recorder recording information captured by an imaging unit into a nonvolatile recording medium, the drive recorder comprising:

a controller for controlling to constantly record information captured by the imaging unit into a nonvolatile recording medium, and record information captured by the imaging unit into a nonvolatile recording medium when a predetermined recording condition is established.

2. The drive recorder according to claim 1, wherein the controller cyclically records information constantly captured by the imaging unit into a first area of the nonvolatile recording medium, and cyclically records information captured by the imaging unit at the time of establishment of the recording condition into a second area of the nonvolatile recording medium.

3. The drive recorder according to claim 2, further comprising a detector for detecting a state of a vehicle, wherein the controller cyclically records information detected by the detector into the first area of the nonvolatile recording medium corresponding to information constantly captured by the imaging unit, and records information detected by the detector into a second area of the nonvolatile recording medium corresponding to information captured by the imaging unit at the time of establishment of the recording condition.

4. The drive recorder according to claim 2, further comprising an operation unit, wherein the controller cyclically records into the first area of the nonvolatile recording medium a fact that the operation unit is operated corresponding to information constantly captured by the imaging unit.

5. The drive recorder according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls not to record information constantly captured by the imaging unit into the nonvolatile recording medium when the recording condition is established.

6. The drive recorder according to claim 1, wherein information amount per unit time of information recorded into the nonvolatile recording medium at the time of establishment of the recording condition is set larger than information amount per unit time of information constantly captured by the imaging unit recorded into the nonvolatile recording medium.

7. The drive recorder according to claim 1, wherein information constantly captured by the imaging unit and recorded into the nonvolatile recording medium is divided into plural files, and these divided files are recorded into the nonvolatile recording medium.