US 12,334,117 B2
Cloud-connected dash camera with continuous recording capability
Matthias Brukner, Meine (DE); Max Hillman, St. Louis, MO (US); Kai-Uwe Bloem, Braunschweig (DE); Marcus Herzig, Winsen/Aller (DE); Scott Humphrey, Godstone (GB); and Blake Loomis, Spring Hill, TN (US)
Assigned to IT US ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by IT US ACQUISITION CO, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Oct. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/479,481.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/412,392, filed on Oct. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0112705 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G11B 27/34 (2006.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 5/92 (2006.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01)
CPC G11B 27/34 (2013.01) [G11B 27/005 (2013.01); G11B 27/102 (2013.01); H04N 5/77 (2013.01); H04N 5/9201 (2013.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dashcam system comprising:
a camera comprising a video capture device, memory, wherein the camera is communicatively coupled to a GPS positioning device and communicatively coupled to a backend cloud server;
the backend cloud server including a software database and a frontend graphical user interface (GUI) communicatively coupled to the camera and an external computing device;
wherein the camera is configured to record a video segment and collect GPS position data from the GPS positioning device, collect and synchronize a video segment timestamp and a GPS position data timestamp, and store a video segment synchronized with the GPS position data, video segment timestamp and a GPS position data timestamp in the memory or transmitted to the backend server;
further wherein the camera is configured to transmit the video segment timestamp and the GPS position data and GPS position data timestamp to the backend cloud server;
further wherein the GUI is configured to pull the video segment timestamp and the GPS position data and GPS position data from the backend server and display onto the external computing device a map with a path correlating to the GPS position data collected over the GPS position data timestamp;
further wherein a portion of the video segment is retrieved through the GUI and displayed on the external computing device by a user selecting at least a portion of the path correlating to the GPS position data collected over the GPS position data timestamp through the backend server through the camera; or
wherein the video segment comprises a plurality of video frames, and each frame comprises a corresponding frame GPS position data point, wherein the GUI displays each video frame and displays each frame GPS position data point on the path concurrently such that as each video frame progresses to a subsequent video frame, each GPS position data point progresses to a subsequent position on the path and is moved along the path.