Patent ID: 7916170

Claim:
A method for field inspection comprising the steps of: capturing video of inspected points of interest, formatting and preparing the video in digital format with low size and high quality thereby creating a digital video file, integrating additional data into the digital video file thereby creating an integrated digital video file, where the additional data comprises header information, defect observations, and distance information, where header information is critical information corresponding to the field inspection, defect observations are observations made by a user corresponding to the field inspection, and distance information comprises the distance from a primary reference point to where the video is captured correlated to a position in the digital video file, transferring the integrated digital video file to a data storage medium, and using the distance information in the integrated digital video file to locate a position in the video of the integrated digital video file, and viewing the video of the integrated digital video file starting at the located position and viewing any corresponding header information and defect observations.