Patent ID: 7365793
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for controlling recording of an image of a scene viewed by a person, said apparatus comprising: an optical sensor arrangement for simultaneously deriving image segments corresponding with images of a scene seen by the person looking (a) forward of his head and (b) to at least one side of his head, a detector arrangement for controlling which of said image segments is to be recorded dependent on an estimation of the pointing direction of the eyes of the person, an image storage for recording only the image segment selected to be recorded by the detector arrangement, without recording the other image segment or segments, a buffer memory for temporarily storing plural sequential images from the simultaneously derived image segments corresponding with images of scenes seen by the person looking forward of his head and to at least one side of his head, and a switch coupled between said buffer memory and said image storage and controlled by the detector arrangement to output a delayed replica of the image segment, selected to be recorded by the detector arrangement, from said buffer memory to said image storage for recording therein.