In-car video system using flash memory as a recording medium

摘要

An inventive system and method is provided by an in-car video system that uses a type of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory known as flash memory to store video of an incident or event. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, a digital video recorder and video camera are fixably mounted in a vehicle such as a police cruiser. An event of interest is captured by a camera and the resulting video stream is converted into a form that writable to a flash memory. The video recorder writes the video to flash memory to thereby store a record of the event on the flash memory as a storage medium.