Recording device, recording method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11902700-B2
Application number	US-202217726392-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2022
Priority date	Dec 20, 2019
Publication date	Feb 13, 2024
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024

Abstract

A recording device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire predetermined information including at least an image of an area around a vehicle, a recording unit configured to record the predetermined information acquired by the acquisition unit as a file, a playback unit configured to play back a designated file among a plurality of files recorded in the recording unit, and a file management unit configured to extract a file recorded in a period substantially continuous in time series with a file being played back from the plurality of files and protect writing of the extracted file. Thus, it is possible to provide a recording device capable of preventing writing of a file related to a file being played back.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recording device comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire predetermined information including at least an image acquisition unit that captures an image of an area around a vehicle, the predetermined information further including road information related to a road on which the vehicle is currently traveling;
a recording unit configured to record the predetermined information acquired by the acquisition unit as an image file;
a playback unit configured to play back a designated image file among a plurality of image files recorded in the recording unit; and
a file management unit configured to extract an image file recorded in a period substantially continuous in time series with an image file being played back from the plurality of image files and protect writing of the extracted image file, and further configured to protect, among the extracted files, writing of an image file having same road information as the road information recorded in the image file being played back, and set an image file having road information different from the road information recorded in the image file being played back to be overwritable.

2. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the image file being played back includes information about other vehicles extracted from the image, and
the file management unit is further configured to protect, among the extracted image files, writing of an image file having same information about other vehicle as the information about other vehicles recorded in the image file being played back, and set an image file having information about other vehicles different from the other vehicle information recorded in the image file being played back to be overwritable.

3. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the acquisition unit is composed of a plurality of cameras, the cameras capturing areas around the vehicle from different directions, and
the file management unit is further configured to protect, among the extracted image files, writing of an image file captured by a same camera as camera which has captured the image file being played back, and set an image file captured by a camera different from the camera which has captured the image file being played back to be overwritable.

4. A recording method comprising:
acquiring predetermined information including at least an image acquisition unit that captures an image of an area around a vehicle, the predetermined information further including road information related to a road on which the vehicle is currently traveling;
dividing the acquired predetermined information into a plurality of image files and recording the plurality of image files;
playing back a designated image file among the recorded plurality of image files;
extracting an image file recorded in a period substantially continuous in time series with an image file being played back from the plurality of image files and protecting writing of the extracted image file;
protecting, among the extracted files, writing of an image file having same road information as the road information recorded in the image file being played back; and
setting an image file having road information different from the road information recorded in the image file being played back to be overwritable.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program for causing a computer to execute:
acquiring predetermined information including at least an image acquisition unit that captures an image of an area around a vehicle, the predetermined information further including road information related to a road on which the vehicle is currently traveling;
dividing the acquired predetermined information into a plurality of image files and recording the plurality of image files;
playing back a designated image file among the recorded plurality of image files;
extracting an image file recorded in a period substantially continuous in time series with an image file being played back from the plurality of image files and protecting writing of the extracted image file;
protecting, among the extracted files, writing of an image file having same road information as the road information recorded in the image file being played back; and
setting an image file having road information different from the road information recorded in the image file being played back to be overwritable.

Assignees

• Jvckenwood Corp

Inventors

• Sato Takayuki
• Tsukamoto Fumio
• YASUE Hirohiko
• Yamaguchi Yusuke
• Yamane Masahiro
• Watanabe Sho
• Kasuya Junichi

Classifications

• H04N5/77 Primary

  between a recording apparatus and a television camera · CPC title

• G06F21/6209

  to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself · CPC title

• G06V20/56

  exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle · CPC title

• H04N5/76 Primary

  Television signal recording · CPC title

• H04N5/772 Primary

  the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure · CPC title