Vehicle impact camera system

[0012]With reference now to the figures and in particular to FIGS. 1A-B, a vehicle 100 is presented. Note that while vehicle 100 is presented for exemplary purposes, and as a preferred embodiment, as an automobile, vehicle 100 may be any vehicle, including but not limited to trucks, buses, aircraft, water craft, construction equipment (e.g., forklifts, graders, etc.), agricultural equipment (e.g., tractors, combines, etc.), and any other vehicle capable of transporting passengers and / or material, and / or performing work during vehicle movement.

[0013]Vehicle 100 includes multiple vehicle-mounted cameras 102a-e. As depicted for exemplary purposes, vehicle-mounted cameras 102a-d have slightly overlapping directional fields of view, while vehicle-mounted camera 102e has a 360° field of view. Optionally, each vehicle-mounted camera 102 is also equipped with an audio microphone (not shown). Also located on vehicle 100 are an impact detection logic 104, an on-board computer 302, a camera fe...