RECORDING DEVICE FOR A MOVING VEHICLE

• US 20110032356A1
• Filed: 08/06/2009
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: A-Wen Yu, Wen-Chiang Chen, Wen-Ching Shih
• Original Assignee: A-Wen Yu, Wen-Chiang Chen, Wen-Ching Shih
• Inventors: Chen, Wen-Chiang, Yu, A-Wen, SHIH, Wen-Ching
• Application Number:
  US12/536,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20110032356A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera

Abstract

A recording device for a moving vehicle includes an image receiving unit, a speed calculating unit, a time unit, a positioning unit and a storing unit. The recording device records outside images when the vehicle moves via a camera lens of the image receiving unit. The speed calculating unit calculates speed using a speed gauge linked to the vehicle. Users can adjust time according to their demand by utilizing a time calculating function built in the time unit. Coordinates of vehicle location are obtained by a positioning unit linked to a satellite. The data mentioned above is stored in the storing unit. The device is installed inside the vehicle before the vehicle is factory assembled. When users start the vehicle, the recording device starts recording. When users turn off the vehicle and leave, the recording device can be re-started by using a switch. The image receiving unit keeps recording images.

Claims

1. a recording device for a moving vehicle, comprising:

an image receiving unit working with a camera lens installed in advance in the vehicle for storing images recorded by the camera lens in a storing unit;

a speed calculating unit for calculating moving speed of the vehicle and commuting the speed into a value to be stored in a storing unit;

a time unit, embedded with a time calculating module, for adjusting time according to demands, wherein numerical data of time are stored in a storing unit;

a positioning unit for positioning a location of the vehicle by using satellite positioning principle, wherein coordinate data of the location are stored in a storing unit;

a storing unit having a proper capacity of memory for storing the data from the image receiving unit, the speed calculating unit, the time unit and the positioning unit.

2. The recording device for a moving vehicle according to claim 1, wherein when users would like to leave the vehicle and turn it off, the recording device can turn on the image receiving unit of the movement recording device to keep recording outside images.