CPC Class H04N

Hazardous or dangerous conditions may be monitored. A mode may be set to a state indicative of the condition being present. It may then be determined that the hazardous or dangerous condition has eased. An indication of the hazardous or dangerous condition easing may be output in response to the determination. Such an indication may be output as synthesized speech.

An apparatus for reporting traffic information comprises a mobile device. The mobile device comprises one or more sensor for monitoring an environmental condition, a memory for storing one or more template. A signal processing module is present for comparing the monitored environmental condition with a selected one of the one or more template indicative of a type of environmental condition. The module generates a event notification message when the monitored environmental condition matches the selected template, the event notification message including information of the type of environmental condition. A transmitter is arranged to transmit the event notification message to a remote station.

A helmet point-of-view training and monitoring method and apparatus to solve problems encountered in the training and monitoring of pilots of airplanes and other air, sea, land, and space vessels, or vehicles where the seating arrangement in the cockpit prevents an instructor or evaluator from sitting beside or directly observing the pilot's view of the controls and indicators in the cockpit and the outside view from the pilot's position in the cockpit, by providing an apparatus to affix a camera to the standard multi-angle mounting surface found on pilot's helmets, in a proper position and at a proper angle, and by capturing a series of images from the pilot's point of view and displaying such images in real time to an instructor and as recordings for review by pilots, instructors, and others.

The present invention relates to a bit rate controller comprising: a light determination block configured to determine a light level in images of a captured scene; and a maximum bit rate setting block. The maximum bit rate setting block is configured to: upon the light level being determined to be a low light level, set a low-light maximum bit rate; upon the light level being determined to be an intermediate light level, set an intermediate-light maximum bit rate; or upon the light level being determined to be a high light level, set a high-light maximum bit rate. The low-light maximum bit rate is lower than the intermediate-light maximum bit rate. The high-light maximum bit rate is lower than the intermediate-light maximum bit rate.