Patent ID: 8423235

Claim:
A vehicle video recording device for recording an outside video, comprising: a sensing unit that includes one or more of a positioning unit, an inertia sensor unit, and an environment sensor unit so as to output sensed information; a vehicle information collecting unit that collects vehicle information from one or more of one or more sensors and a self-diagnosis device disposed in a vehicle; and a driving information generating unit that generates driving information during use and nonuse of the vehicle on a basis of one or more of the sensed information and the vehicle information, wherein different sets of the driving information are generated depending on whether the vehicle is in use or nonuse, and wherein the different sets of driving information includes: a first set generated during use of the vehicle, the first set comprising at least one of a driving date, a traveling distance, a traveling speed, a direction indicator signal, a safety belt wearing signal, an acceleration pedal signal, a brake signal, a residual fuel signal, and ejected fuel signal; and a second set generated during nonuse of the vehicle, the second set comprising at least one of the traveling distance and GPS positional coordinates.