Video Image Arbitration for Recording Position-Linked Footage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image capturing technologies automatically record large amounts of unneeded data without considering user needs, making it difficult to capture desired images with associated map information.
Innovation Solution
A video camera system that integrates means for receiving both user-captured images and images from other sources, such as a car navigation system, with an image input arbitration section to combine and store these images as a set of moving images, allowing for compression and encoding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automatic image capturing is used to record position information and images together, then the recording process is simplified, but users cannot freely capture their desired images and unneeded data is recorded
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between automatic capturing mode and manual capturing mode, allowing the image capturing mechanism to adapt its behavior based on user needs. The capturing section can operate automatically to record position information and images, or can be controlled manually by user operations, providing flexibility in how images are captured and recorded.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple video input sources are supported, then the system becomes more versatile, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
An image input arbitration section is introduced as an intermediary component that manages multiple video input sources. This arbitration section receives images from different sources including video cameras and other video input terminals, arbitrates between them, and outputs the selected images to the recording section, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture despite supporting multiple inputs.
Data Source
AI summary
Module compression/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression an encoding more in real time.