Patent attributes
A system integrated onboard a vehicular platform is provided for capturing video and/or audio data. The system (5) includes a plurality of video acquisition units (10) situated on the vehicular platform, at least one audio acquisition unit (20) operable to acquire an audio record within a predetermined region thereby, at least one removable data storage unit (40) for digitally storing the acquired video and audio records, a control unit (30) operably coupled to the video and audio acquisition units (10, 20) and to the removable data storage unit (40), a programmable user interface (50) coupled to the control unit by a local intercommunication link (60), and an intercommunications unit (70) operably coupled to the local intercommunication link (60). Each video acquisition unit (10) is operable to acquire a video record of at least one predetermined monitored area. The control unit (30) is programmably operable to control the video and audio acquisition units (10, 20), and to manage the storage of the acquired video and audio records into the storage unit (40). The user interface (50) includes a display device for displaying various information to the user. The intercommunications unit (70) serves to establish a wireless communications link with a remotely disposed vehicular platform.
