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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2008
William Howard Thomas, Ii, King George, VA (US);
Vincent J. Vendetti, King George, VA (US);
Robert L. Schroeder, Jr., Dahlgren, VA (US);
Matthew A. Treier, King George, VA (US);
Josef A. Koza, Spotsylvania, VA (US);
Mark Digiovanni, New Kent, VA (US);
Michael J. Lavery, Fredricksburg, VA (US);
Patrick A. Dezeeuw, Fredricksburg, VA (US);
William Howard Thomas, II, King George, VA (US);
Vincent J. Vendetti, King George, VA (US);
Robert L. Schroeder, Jr., Dahlgren, VA (US);
Matthew A. Treier, King George, VA (US);
Josef A. Koza, Spotsylvania, VA (US);
Mark DiGiovanni, New Kent, VA (US);
Michael J. Lavery, Fredricksburg, VA (US);
Patrick A. Dezeeuw, Fredricksburg, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for supplying to an operator a video stream from at least one of a plurality of cameras that capture images. This includes connecting the cameras and a computer to a network and recording the images from each camera into a corresponding buffer accessible to the computer. Upon detecting a triggering event associated with an event-recording camera, further operations include responding to the triggering event by depositing the images from an event-recording buffer corresponding to said event-recording camera as the video stream into a reviewable memory, and retrieving the video stream from the reviewable memory for the operator. The operator is preferably one of a commander using a command workstation, a lethal response operator using a lethal workstation, and a non-lethal response operator using a non-lethal workstation. Also preferably, each workstation is assigned as one of a primary brain and failover brains. The primary brain functions to execute software and issue control signals, so that if the primary brain fails, one of the failover brains assumes the functions, that failover brain being selected in a sequential order.