Patent ID: 8264539

Claim:
A video-recording and transfer apparatus being mounted on a train of railway cars, video-recording video data from one or more imaging devices, and transferring the video data outside the train, comprising: one or more first video-recording devices which perform full-time video-recording or alarm video-recording through sensor detection of video data from the one or more imaging devices; a second video-recording device which receives the video data from the first video-recording devices and records the video data at a rate higher than an acquisition rate of the video data from the imaging devices; a communication device which determines property of a communication to and from the outside of the train to establish a wireless communication path to a partner communication device in a communicable state; and a control device which reads the recorded video data from the second video-recording device to transfer the video data to the partner communication device through the wireless communication path when the wireless communication path is established by the communication device, wherein the second video-recording device ranks each video data in order of importance for video-recording the video data from the first video-recording devices; and the control device transfers the video data in descending order of importance to the partner communication device, wherein: the communication device establishes the communication path for every stop of the train at a station, and the control device transmits the video data to the partner communication device installed in the station, and when the train departs from the station, the control device stops the transfer, the communication device disconnects the communication path, and the second video-recording device restarts recording the video data from the first video-recording device, at the interrupted portion of the video data.