Digital video audit system
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1. A system for collecting and organizing data comprising:
- a video camera for capturing video images of transactions;
an input device for collecting transaction data associated with the transactions; and
a database management system for organizing the video images and the transaction data into a digital database;
wherein the video images are stored in the digital database as digital video images;
wherein the digital video images are associated in the digital database with the transaction data such that the digital video images of a transaction can be retrieved based on the transaction data of the transaction;
wherein the video camera is configured to capture a first video image during a first time period;
wherein the database management system is configured to determine, after the video camera has captured the first video image, whether or not the input device collected first transaction data of a first transaction during the first time period; and
wherein the database management system is configured to store, if determining that the input device collected the first transaction data during the first time period, the first video image in the digital database as a first digital video image associated with the first transaction data.
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Abstract
A method and system for building and utilizing a database containing images of transactions. As transactions are performed, a camera takes images of the transactions. These images are correlated to data that outlines the details of the transaction that includes date, time and sometimes the amount of money exchanged. The images and data are stored in a database for easy retrieval using query instructions so that a particular transaction and its corresponding image are quickly retrieved.
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1. A system for collecting and organizing data comprising:
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a video camera for capturing video images of transactions; an input device for collecting transaction data associated with the transactions; and a database management system for organizing the video images and the transaction data into a digital database; wherein the video images are stored in the digital database as digital video images; wherein the digital video images are associated in the digital database with the transaction data such that the digital video images of a transaction can be retrieved based on the transaction data of the transaction; wherein the video camera is configured to capture a first video image during a first time period; wherein the database management system is configured to determine, after the video camera has captured the first video image, whether or not the input device collected first transaction data of a first transaction during the first time period; and wherein the database management system is configured to store, if determining that the input device collected the first transaction data during the first time period, the first video image in the digital database as a first digital video image associated with the first transaction data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of creating a transaction based database comprising:
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capturing an image of the transaction as the transaction occurs; collecting data associated with the transaction; and storing the image and the data into a digital database, the image stored into the digital database as a digital image associated with the data; wherein the image of the transaction is captured before the data associated with the transaction are collected; and wherein a query into the digital database using a portion of the data acts as a key for retrieving the digital image associated with the data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for creating a transaction based database, the method comprising the steps of:
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capturing a video image during a time period; determining, after the video image has been captured during the time period, whether or not a transaction occurred during the time period; saving the video image in the transaction based database determining that the transaction occurred during the time period; saving transaction data associated with the transaction in the transaction based database in the event that the transaction occurred during the time period; and associating the video image with the transaction data in the transaction based database if determining that the transaction occurred during the time period. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method for displaying video images related to transactions, the method comprising the steps of:
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capturing video images for each of a plurality of transactions; collecting transaction data for each of the plurality of transactions; associating the video images for each of the plurality of transactions with the transaction data of the corresponding transaction; retrieving, in response to a query that indicates a particular transaction data characteristic, a subset of the video images that are associated with transaction data having the particular transaction data characteristic; and displaying the retrieved subset of the video images in an order; wherein the video images for each of the plurality of transactions are captured before the transaction data of the corresponding transaction are collected. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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31. A method for displaying video images related to transactions, the method comprising the steps of:
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capturing video images for each of a plurality of transactions; collecting transaction data for each of the plurality of transactions, associating the video images for each of the plurality of transactions with the transaction data of the corresponding transaction; retrieving, in response to a query that indicates a particular transaction data characteristic, a subset of the video images that are associated with transaction data having the particular transaction data characteristic; and displaying the retrieved subset of the video images in an order; wherein the video images for each of the plurality of transactions are captured either before the transaction data of the corresponding transaction are collected or at a same time that the transaction data of the corresponding transaction are collected; and wherein the step of displaying the retrieved subset of the video images in an order, comprises the step of; displaying the retrieved subset of the video images in chronological order according to when the transactions associated with the video images occurred, the retrieved subset of the video images displayed without any intervening images.
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