Video Recording Network Matching Excess Camera Capacity
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is no system to match individuals with excess video recording capacity with those who want to utilize it, leading to underutilization of automatic video recording equipment and missed opportunities for capturing high-quality content.
Innovation Solution
A network of automatic video recorders and tags that allows users to set their equipment to record others, promoting communal content creation, sharing, and collaboration, with operational modes for public, private, and quid-pro-quo usage, enabling crowd-sourced video footage and personal relationships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If automatic video recorders are owned by individuals, then video recording capacity is available, but utilization of this capacity is low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual video recording systems into a coordinated network where cameras and tags from different users work together. The system combines excess recording capacity from multiple sources to serve multiple purposes, transforming underutilized individual resources into a productive collective asset that captures footage for participants who may not own equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables video recording equipment to serve multiple functions: recording for the owner, recording for other network participants, and providing diverse viewing perspectives. The system allows a single recording event to generate multiple usable video streams for different users, maximizing the utility of each recording instance and eliminating waste of recording capacity.
2Productivity
If a network of cameras and tags is created, then video capture capacity increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that manages the complexity of coordinating multiple cameras and tags. The server handles tag recognition, camera selection, and footage distribution, shielding individual users from the complexity of network coordination while enabling sophisticated multi-camera functionality. This intermediary absorbs the computational and organizational complexity, allowing the system to scale without proportionally increasing user burden.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cameras record multiple participants, then diverse footage is obtained, but coordination difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where cameras and tags automatically identify and coordinate with each other without manual intervention. The system autonomously matches cameras with appropriate tags, selects optimal recording configurations, and manages footage distribution based on pre-set user preferences and real-time network conditions, eliminating the need for complex manual coordination while maintaining versatile multi-participant recording capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Existence of instrumentation for automatic video recording creates an excess capacity of video recording for those who own automatic video recorders. Others may want to utilize this excess capacity to record their activities thus there is a need for a system that helps match those who would like to utilize the excess capacity with those who have such capacity. Such excess capacity is matched with demand to use such excess capacity by creating a network of automatic video recording units and tags that are associated with people who want to be recorded.