Protective Dual-Camera Vehicle Enclosure for Event Footage Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current motor vehicle recording systems lack the capability to continuously record both interior and exterior video and audio effectively, especially during predetermined events such as collisions or rapid deceleration, and do not provide secure and tamper-proof storage solutions.
Innovation Solution
A dual-camera system within a housing, where one camera captures the exterior and another the interior, recording on a continuous loop with oldest data overwritten, and upon specific events, protecting the relevant video segments from erasure, using accelerometers for event detection, GPS for location data, and a protective enclosure for security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single camera records exterior events, then the recording system is simple, but interior events cannot be captured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple cameras (exterior and interior) into a single integrated recording system housed in one unit. This merging approach allows simultaneous capture of both interior and exterior events without requiring separate independent systems, thus increasing versatility while managing complexity through unified design.
Solution Approach 2:
The recording system is designed to perform multiple functions: capturing exterior events, interior events, and coordinating their recording through a single system. The system can selectively record from either or both cameras based on detected events, making it universally applicable to various recording needs without requiring separate specialized systems.
2Reliability
If video is continuously recorded without protection, then storage space is efficiently used, but important event footage can be overwritten
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary marking of video segments as protected before they are overwritten. When an event is detected, the system proactively identifies and flags the relevant video footage from both interior and exterior cameras for protection, ensuring it cannot be overwritten by subsequent continuous recording. This preliminary action preserves important footage while maintaining efficient storage utilization for non-event periods.
3Loss of information
If multiple cameras record simultaneously, then comprehensive event coverage is achieved, but synchronization and review complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from event detection (such as collision sensors or rapid motion detection) to coordinate the recording and playback of multiple cameras. When an event is detected, the system triggers simultaneous capture from both interior and exterior cameras and maintains their synchronization during playback, using the event detection feedback to manage the complexity of multi-camera coordination.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for simultaneously and continuously capturing video from the interior and exterior of a vehicle. The system includes, for example, a first housing including a first connection mechanism, first and second cameras and a memory disposed in the first housing. The system also includes a second housing including a second connection mechanism adapted to be removably connected to the first connection mechanism of the first housing and encasing said first housing within the second housing. A mounting mechanism is adjustably connected to said second housing and configured to maintain at least one of the first camera and the second camera in a predetermined position by adjusting the second housing. Additional embodiments are also described including a method for capturing data.