Patents Assigned to Mobile-Vision, Inc.
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Patent number: 8446469Abstract: An in-car video system and method is provided where a wireless microphone is configured with bi-directional communications capability. In response to a received RF activation signal, the wireless microphone is automatically switched on to capture (and transmit back to the in-car video system) an audio soundtrack that accompanies the images captured by the car-mounted video camera. A wireless microphone controller mounted in the car transmits the RF activation signal to the wireless microphone. The wireless microphone controller is arranged to transmit the RF activation signal when the VCR starts recording. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the wireless microphone receives information, including a confirmation that the VCR is recording, from an RF information signal received from the wireless microphone controller mounted in the car. The wireless microphone displays the information to the officer on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision, Inc.Inventors: Louis W. Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Patent number: 8363102Abstract: Dynamic load balancing of network traffic is achieved using one or more access points by using a server-centric approach where rules are applied to attributes and characteristics observed by the server which form a profile of wireless clients accessing the network, such as in-car video systems. In various illustrative examples, priorities are assigned to in-car video systems and data files stored therein to which the server applies rules to responsively invoke commands performed by the in-car video systems to balance the uploading of data files to the server. The commands, when executed, allow high priority data files, or data files from high priority in-car video systems or users to be uploaded first, while lower priority data files or users are put on hold. In other illustrative examples, in-car video systems are commanded by the server or forced to roam between access points having overlapping coverage but operating on different non-interfering channels.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Allen Kadoch, Kurt A. Kessel
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Patent number: 8350907Abstract: A method of storing digital video is provided where an original video clip is selected, according to selection criteria, from video clips stored on a digital storage medium. The frame rate associated with the selected video clip is lowered and a downgraded version of the original video clip is written to a digital storage medium at the lowered frame rate. The original video clip may then be overwritten or erased to thereby reduce the storage space requirements for the downgraded video clip by approximately the percentage reduction in downgraded frame rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision, Inc.Inventors: Louis W. Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Patent number: 7119832Abstract: An in-car video system and method is provided where a wireless microphone is configured with bi-directional communications capability. In response to a received RF activation signal, the wireless microphone is automatically switched on to capture (and transmit back to the in-car video system) an audio soundtrack that accompanies the images captured by the car-mounted video camera. A wireless microphone controller mounted in the car transmits the RF activation signal to the wireless microphone. The wireless microphone controller is arranged to transmit the RF activation signal when the video recording device starts recording. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the wireless microphone receives information, including a confirmation that the video recording device is recording, from an RF information signal received from the wireless microphone controller mounted in the car. The wireless microphone displays the information to the officer on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2001Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision, Inc.Inventors: Louis W. Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Patent number: 7023333Abstract: An in-car video system and method are provided where a vehicle speed derived from a vehicle speed sensor (“VSS”) signal is compared against a user-settable threshold value. If the vehicle speed exceeds the threshold value, an alarm is generated. The alarm is used by the in-car video system to automatically activate the record function of a video recorder. The alarm may be optionally sent to a remote location, such as a police agency's headquarters as an alert that the vehicle speed has exceeded a set threshold and that a possible high speed pursuit has commenced. Vehicle speed information derived from the VSS signal is generated into a form that is continuously displayable on an in-car video monitor or continuously recordable by the video recorder along with the video and audio information captured by the in-car video system camera and microphones.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: L-3 Communications Mobile Vision, Inc.Inventors: Louis W. Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Publication number: 20060055521Abstract: An in-car video system and method are provided where a GPS speed signal is compared against a user-settable threshold value. If the vehicle speed exceeds the threshold value, an alarm is generated. The alarm is used by the in-car video system to automatically activate the record function of a video recorder. The alarm may be optionally sent to a remote location, such as a police agency's headquarters as an alert that the vehicle speed has exceeded a set threshold and that a possible high speed pursuit has commenced. Vehicle speed information from the GPS speed signal is generated into a form that is continuously displayable on an in-car video monitor or continuously recordable by the video recorder along with the video and audio information captured by the in-car video system camera and microphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2004Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicant: Mobile-Vision Inc.Inventors: Louis Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Publication number: 20050088291Abstract: An in-car video system and method are provided where a vehicle speed derived from a vehicle speed sensor (“VSS”) signal is compared against a user-settable threshold value. If the vehicle speed exceeds the threshold value, an alarm is generated. The alarm is used by the in-car video system to automatically activate the record function of a video recorder. The alarm may be optionally sent to a remote location, such as a police agency's headquarters as an alert that the vehicle speed has exceeded a set threshold and that a possible high speed pursuit has commenced. Vehicle speed information derived from the VSS signal is generated into a form that is continuously displayable on an in-car video monitor or continuously recordable by the video recorder along with the video and audio information captured by the in-car video system camera and microphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2003Publication date: April 28, 2005Applicant: Mobile-Vision Inc.Inventors: Louis Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Publication number: 20050088521Abstract: An inventive system and method is provided by an in-car video system that uses a type of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory known as flash memory to store video of an incident or event. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, a digital video recorder and video camera are fixably mounted in a vehicle such as a police cruiser. An event of interest is captured by a camera and the resulting video stream is converted into a form that writable to a flash memory. The video recorder writes the video to flash memory to thereby store a record of the event on the flash memory as a storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2003Publication date: April 28, 2005Applicant: Mobile-Vision Inc.Inventors: Louis Blanco, Leo Lorenzetti
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Publication number: 20030151663Abstract: An in-car video apparatus and method is provided where a real time continuous video supplied by a vehicle-mounted camera and an audio microphone is processed for storage in a memory in a time-sequential manner for a pre-set time interval to create a time-delayed video stream. Upon activation of the in-car video system by a law enforcement officer (which occurs at an arbitrary reference time), a vehicle-mounted recording device records the time-delayed video stream to create a video recording of the events captured by the video camera. Because the time-delayed video stream is recorded rather than the real time video stream, the start time of the video recording precedes the reference time by the pre-set time interval. The invention provides an ability to create a complete record of a police-citizen encounter, including the initial incident that prompted the officer's subsequent activation of the in-car video system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: Mobile-Vision, Inc.Inventors: Leo Lorenzetti, Louis W. Blanco
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Patent number: 6028528Abstract: The apparatus can manage transfers of video recording media bearing machine readable registration codes. This media is adapted to record video from a vehicle-mounted camera. The management apparatus (and the methods) operate with a user identification key carrying at least one machine readable, identification code, as well as a supplemental code. The apparatus has a port for reading and writing to the key, a registration device, and a processor. The port can provide in response to the key, an identification signal and supplemental signal corresponding to the identification and supplemental code. The registration device can read the registration codes borne by the video recording media and can provide in response thereto a registration signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1997Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Mobile-Vision, Inc.Inventors: Leo Lorenzetti, Louis W. Blanco