IP Library Granted Patent US 9,819,896
Granted Patent B2
US 9,819,896 · App. 15/261,290 · Granted Nov 14, 2017

Wearable camera system and recording control method

Inventors: Kazuya Waniguchi (Fukuoka, JP); Minoru Hagio (Fukuoka, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
H04N5/77H04N5/23206H04N9/802H04N21/2743H04N21/4223H04N21/42203H04N21/6543H04N5/2251
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,819,896
App. No.
15/261,290
Granted
Nov 14, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A detector in MCU generates audio data by cutting out a section of the sounds collected by a microphone. A communicator transmits the generated audio data to a back end server. The back end server receives the audio data from a wearable camera. CPU collates the received audio data with audio data registered in an audio database. The communicator notifies the wearable camera of automatic start of the recording in a case where the received audio data and the registered audio data are matched with each other, as a result of collation. In a case of being notified of the instruction to start the recording from the server, the wearable camera starts the recording of a video captured by a capture.

Claims (27)

1. A wearable camera system in which a wearable camera which is mounted on or belongs to a police officer is connected to a server,

wherein the wearable camera includes

a capture that captures a subject;

a recorder that records a video of the captured subject;

a microphone that collects sounds;

a detector that generates audio data by cutting out a section of the sounds collected by the microphone; and

a transmitter that transmits the generated audio data to the server,

wherein the server includes

a storage in which a predetermined audio data obtained during patrol or relating to an incident is registered;

a receiver that receives the audio data transmitted from the wearable camera;

a collator that collates the received audio data with the predetermined audio data registered in the storage; and

a notifier that notifies the wearable camera of an instruction to start recording in a case where the received audio data and the registered predetermined audio data are matched with each other, as a result of collation, and

wherein in a case of being notified of the instruction to start the recording from the server, the wearable camera starts the recording of a video of the subject captured by the capture.

2. The wearable camera system of claim 1 ,

wherein the storage registers audio data of sounds emitted in an emergency situation as the predetermined audio data,

wherein the server transmits a distribution instruction of the video to the wearable camera in a case where the received audio data is matched with the registered audio data of the sounds emitted in the emergency situation, and

wherein the wearable camera starts the distribution of the video of the subject captured by the capture based on the distribution instruction of the video transmitted from the server.

3. The wearable camera system of claim 1 ,

wherein the wearable camera includes a button which is operated in the emergency situation, and emergency information is transmitted to the server in a case where the button is operated,

wherein the server transmits the distribution instruction of the video to the wearable camera when receiving the emergency information which is transmitted from the wearable camera, and

wherein the wearable camera starts the distribution of the video of the subject captured by the capture based on the distribution instruction of the video transmitted from the server.

4. The wearable camera system of claim 1 ,

wherein a sound obtained during the patrol or relating to the incident, which is collected by the microphone is a sound of gunshot generated during the patrol or in a site of an incident.

5. A recording control method in the police officer wearable camera system in which a wearable camera which is mounted on or belongs to a police officer is connected to a server,

wherein the wearable camera includes a microphone, captures a subject, generates audio data by cutting out a section of sounds collected by the microphone, and transmits the generated audio data to the server,

wherein the server stores a predetermined audio data obtained during patrol or relating to an incident in a storage, receives the transmitted audio data from the wearable camera, collates the received audio data with the predetermined audio data registered in the storage, and notifies the wearable camera of an instruction to start recording in a case where the received audio data and the registered predetermined audio data are matched with each other, as a result of collation, and

wherein in a case where the notified of the instruction to start the recording is received from the server, the wearable camera starts the recording of a video of the captured subject.

Assignments (7)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 16, 2023
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: I-PRO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063101/0966 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 16, 2023
From: I-PRO CO., LTD.
To: I-PRO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063102/0075 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054883/0248 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054883/0234 →
MERGER Recorded Dec 31, 2020
From: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
To: PSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 054883/0201 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2019
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 051369/0172 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2016
From: WANIGUCHI, KAZUYA; HAGIO, MINORU
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 040766/0626 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-183954 · Sep 17, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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