| US 7,602,413 B2 | ||
| Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program | ||
| Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo (Japan); Naoki Kobayashi, Tokyo (Japan); Yasuhiro Fujimori, Kanagawa (Japan); Yasuaki Takahashi, Kanagawa (Japan); Koji Ohta, Kanagawa (Japan); and Naoki Takeda, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 09, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/681,242. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. P2002-303795 (JP), filed on Oct. 18, 2002; application No. P2003-005316 (JP), filed on Jan. 14, 2003; and application No. P2003-013686 (JP), filed on Jan. 22, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0155963 A1, Aug. 12, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 7/18 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—143 [348/148] | 45 Claims |
| 1. An image-capturing device comprising:
image-capturing means installed inside a vehicle at a position to capture an image outside the vehicle through a window while
the vehicle is off;
direction setting means for setting an image-capturing direction of said image-capturing means;
power supply control means for prohibiting power from being supplied to the image-capturing means to make the image-capturing
means inoperable after the image-capturing means is disposed in the image-capturing direction for a predetermined amount of
time;
detection means for detecting that an object outside the vehicle is approaching the vehicle; and
the power supply control means supplies power to said image-capturing means when the object outside the vehicle detected by
said detection means is determined to be approaching the vehicle, while the vehicle remains off.
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