Google patents device to record events and allow users to relive them
29 Jul 2015
Google has patented a new device that would sit on Google Glass and record important moments of a one's life to allow them to be relived again and again.
According to a filing published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, Google aimed to create a device that would record video and audio, and upload it into the cloud for viewing later on.
The internet giant also wanted the videos captured to be searchable and the people and places in the videos such as family and friends to be identifiable, so that one could later search for a specific memory with someone.
According to the patent, if there was a database of shared video memories in the cloud, then in theory a person's friends could ask to see what one had been up to on a night out, or to see what it was like when one climbed a mountain or went on holiday to an exotic location.
The database could also contain the experiences of people witnessing news events, so rather than using one's phone to take a video, which one then shared on Facebook or Twitter, one's experience would be searchable to anyone trying to find video and audio footage from that specific event.
This would work like collective consciousness.
Users could, in effect, search for anything that had happened to them since they started to wear the device.
Users would even be able to search and find out what their friends on social networking sites were doing.
Users could find out what their partner saw last night, either on TV or see their live video feed data.
One could use the gathered data for security purposes; for instance if a security guard, or police office wore the device, one could view exactly what he saw during his time on duty.
The device could also capture audio, or be configured to take images at pre-set intervals and lenses could be used to combine light projection, reflections, lasers and near-to-eye images.
The glasses could be used as either a see-through, see-around or video see-through display and captured images could be used to create augmented reality and interact with the real world view of the user - as long as the user was wearing it.
