Patent ID: 9143672
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A network-capable self-controlled camera, comprising: an infrared sensor; an optical system for forming an image on the infrared sensor and including lenses formed from infrared transmitting material; an image capturing circuit, for capturing digital images from the infrared sensor; a compression engine for changing a compression ratio of the digital images depending on an upload data transmission rate; a network interface device connectible to a computer network for transmission of the digital images, as digital image files, across the computer network; a file transfer device for communicating, via the network interface device, with a destination computer at a selected network address on the computer network, and for transferring the digital image files to the destination computer according to a predetermined file transfer protocol; a transport control device for packetizing data of the digital image files to the selected network address using a combination of a transport control protocol with error correction and a transport control protocol that does not retransmit erroneous data, thereby increasing a rate of image transfer by the file transfer device, wherein single image data files use the transport control protocol with error correction and streaming of image data files use the transport control protocol that does not retransmit erroneous data; and a self-initiating transmission initiating device for self-initiating a connection with the computer network and for self-initiating a connection with the destination computer at the selected network address via the transport control device and the network interface device.