Patent ID: 9350952
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G07C,G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A drive video recording device, comprising: a video encoding section that encodes a video indicating a surrounding environment of the vehicle, wherein the video is continuously captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle and inputted thereto; a first storage section for storing the video encoded by the video encoding section; a second storage section; a vehicle state collecting section that collects information related to vehicle states including at least one of operations by a driver, the behavior of the vehicle, and the state of the driver; and a summarized moving image creating and recording section that identifies time periods during which an amount of information collected by the vehicle state collecting section is larger and time periods during which the amount of information is smaller as vehicle states in the video stored in the first storage section, creates a summarized moving image in which the video stored by the first storage section is culled such that a playback speed of the video of the time period during which the amount of information is smaller is faster than a playback speed of the video of the time period during which the amount of information is larger, and stores the summarized moving image in the second storage section.