Wearable camera system and recording control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9819896-B2
Application number	US-201615261290-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2016
Priority date	Sep 17, 2015
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Waniguchi Kazuya
• Hagio Minoru

Classifications

• H04N23/50

  Constructional details · CPC title

• H04N23/661

  Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet · CPC title

• H04N21/42203

  sound input device, e.g. microphone · CPC title

• H04N21/2743

  Video hosting of uploaded data from client · CPC title

• H04N5/23206

  Electricity · mapped topic