Patent ID: 7483485

Claim:
A wireless data acquisition and recording (DAR) system, comprising: acquisition circuitry including a video camera and/or a microphone carried by an operator for capturing video and audio events viewed and/or heard by the operator; a wireless transmitter for wirelessly transmitting digital data containing the video events captured by the video camera and the audio events detected by the microphone; and a data display and report submission (DD) device for receiving the wirelessly transmitted digital data captured by the acquisition circuitry and storing the transmitted digital data as media files; wherein: the DD device is configured to insert at least one marker in the media files, the at least one marker for authenticating that the captured video and audio events were captured by the DAR system; the DD device includes a time and date encoder for attaching a time and date stamp to the media files; and the DD device is configured to restrict access to controls for adjusting the time and date encoder.