Dual-stream video management

US11356605B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Samsara Inc. · US

Inventors

• Sabrina Quinn Shemet · Felton, US
• Matthew Basham · Oakland, US
• John Bicket · San Francisco, US
• Mathew Chasan Calmer · Sacramento, US
• Justin Joel Delegard · San Francisco, US
• Derrek Harrison · San Francisco, US
• David Liang · San Francisco, US
• Ava O'Neill · San Francisco, US
• Cassandra Lee Rommel · Chicago, US
• Meelap Shah · Portland, US
• Casey Takahashi · San Francisco, US
• Ingo Gerhard Wiegand · Frebershausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 2021
• Grant date: Jun 7, 2022
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2011/0003
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An Internet of Things (IoT) or vehicle dash cam may store both a high-resolution and low-resolution video stream on a device. The video streams are selectively accessible by remote devices. Because of the relatively smaller storage requirements of low-resolution video files, retaining of additional video data on the vehicle device (beyond what would be possible with only high-resolution video) is possible. The user may be provided an option to adjust the amount of low-resolution and high-resolution video to store on the device. A combined media file may be generated by a device to include time-synced high-resolution video, low-resolution video, and/or metadata for a particular time period.