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20080266397 | Accident witness - The unit is an apparatus that can capture the surroundings of a motor vehicle while travelling on the motorways or while parked unattended and allows the owner to remotely access & control the unit and retrieve the captured data if necessary via the internet. The unit also has the capability to surf the internet, receive and send email, play audio/video data and exchange data with external sources either through USB connections or wirelessly via the internet. | 10-30-2008 |
20080291276 | Method for Driver Assistance and Driver Assistance Device on the Basis of Lane Information - A method for driver assistance and a driver assistance device which operates on the basis of lane information are described. The lane information is ascertained from an image recorded by an image sensor and/or estimated on the basis of objects in this image depending on the weather conditions. | 11-27-2008 |
20090115848 | MULTIDIRECTIONAL TRAFFIC IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC POLICE SYSTEM - This invention relates to a multidirectional traffic image capturing method and an electronic police system. This method adopts forward direction camera and side direction camera to capture images of the traffic condition and can obtain qualified images through regularly adjusting the direction of side direction camera with main control unit. This system is made up of main control unit, forward control unit, forward camera, and side control unit and side camera. The main control unit will analyze, judge if there is a disobeying of traffic lights through lights signal and traffic condition, meanwhile control forward direction camera and side direction camera to capture images. This invention adopts multidirectional image capturing method to obtain the images of violated vehicles, which overcomes the long standing issue of red light glaring, guarantees the quality of the images and is mainly used in the supervision and management of the traffic. | 05-07-2009 |
20090153665 | LANE CHANGE CONTROL SYSTEM - This invention relates generally to vision systems for vehicles and, more particularly, to rear-view vision systems which provide the vehicle operator with scenic information in the direction rearward of the vehicle. More particularly, the invention relates to a rear-view vision system utilizing image capture devices, such as CMOS imaging arrays in external rear view mirrors to support lane change in a driver assistant system. | 06-18-2009 |
20090167865 | Photographic object recognition correction - This invention describes a set of simple yet novel methods for capturing photographs of moving objects that are constrained to lie within a relatively flat object region that is not necessarily perpendicular to the axis of the camera lens. Using these methods, one can select a focal plane and an object region that is not that of a normal camera, and, when objects are constrained to move within that object region, one can successfully photograph them no matter where they appear within the field without losing focus. | 07-02-2009 |
20090174777 | VEHICLE SPEED MONITORING SYSTEM - A vehicle speed monitoring system comprises a plurality of cameras ( | 07-09-2009 |
20090174778 | MULTILANE VEHICLE INFORMATION CAPTURE SYSTEM - A system and method for accurate express tolling of highway vehicles. A multilane tolling system comprises a tolling (MVIC) unit that collects information from tolling subsystems arranged to take various vehicle measurements. Preferably, an intelligent vehicle identification subsystem sends vehicle information to the MVIC unit many times per second. Preferably, a vision tracking system (VTS) communicates with the MVIC unit and sends the latter information about the vehicle position using vision tracking sensors. Preferably, an RF subsystem conducts multiple reads of a transponder on a passing vehicle and forwards the read information to the MVIC unit. Preferably, a vehicle image capture unit (VICU) captures images of the passing vehicle when a camera in the VICU receives a trigger from the MVIC unit. Preferably, a driver alert module is used alert a driver passing through a tolling point as to account balance associated with a silent toll tag or pay by plate system. | 07-09-2009 |
20090195653 | Method And System For Transmitting Video Images Using Video Cameras Embedded In Signal/Street Lights - A method and system of video surveillance by using existing street light, traffic light and other household or outdoor light assemblies. A video camera is mounted in the light assembly and is powered through power lines of the light assembly. A converter is used to convert images captured by the video camera into Internet Protocol (IP) video data. A combiner then combines the IP video data into the power stream for transmission through the power lines. Both the converter and the combiner are housed in the light assembly. The IP video data travels through the power lines and is separated from the power stream at a collection point. The separated IP video data is transmitted wirelessly or through existing cables over the Internet for viewing. | 08-06-2009 |
20090231431 | DISPLAYED VIEW MODIFICATION IN A VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE NETWORK - In V2V or other networks in which multiple video cameras can share video data, a user may elect to modify a primary view by electronically “removing” obstructing objects from the primary view. The user begins by identifying the objects to be electronically removed from the simulated view, either by designating the boundaries of the objects or by identifying classes of objects to be removed. Pel locations associated with obstructing objects are identified in the primary data set. Video data provided by cameras other than a primary video camera is analyzed to identify common features in the primary and secondary views and to identify pels that correspond with object-associated pels in the primary view. A merged data set, consisting of pel data from the primary data set and from at least one of the secondary data sets, provides the video data presented in the simulated view. | 09-17-2009 |
20090231432 | VIEW SELECTION IN A VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE NETWORK - In V2V or other networks in which multiple video cameras can share video data, a network participant ordinarily has the option of selecting a particular video data stream (either generated by local cameras or received from other network participants. To facilitate the process of selecting a video data stream for presentation, the user's vehicle (in a V2V network) receives video data streams generated by other network participants along with identifiers indicating the video data stream actually being presented to the sender. The receiving system identifies the received video data stream by the greatest number of network participants and displays the identified video data stream on the user's in-vehicle video display. | 09-17-2009 |
20090231433 | SCENE SELECTION IN A VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE NETWORK - In V2V or other networks in which multiple video feeds are available to a participant, a participant can select a particular video feed for display. The participant has the option of selecting or locking onto a particular camera so that the display continues to show scenes captured by that camera without regard to what appears in those scenes. As an alternative, the participant may select or lock onto a particular scene. If a scene is selected, the current video feed is analyzed to identify key features. The video feed is monitored. If the key features disappear from the video feed, video feeds available from other cameras are analyzed for the presence of the key features. A new video feed (i.e., camera) is selected from the set of video feeds currently generating images including the key features. | 09-17-2009 |
20090256911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAY, TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL - The system and method for traffic surveillance, control, and traffic related information display uses display units each having display element sensors and cameras where the operation is controlled by a processor. Anticipatory sensor systems continuously measure speed and deceleration of approaching vehicles, sends signals to the processor which in turn analyzes the incoming signals. A rapid sequence camera continuously records audio-video images. When the rate of deceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold, which may be indicative of an imminent accident, the processor activates a store regime of the audio visual images on-site or transmitted to an off-site location for further actions. The information on the traffic flow condition which may affect the vehicle travel is displayed on the display unit. The system provides for the detection of pedestrians about to cross an intersection and controls the traffic light pattern accordingly. The display unit utilizes shapes, motions, and color to provide for easily understandable messages to vehicle occupants and pedestrians. | 10-15-2009 |
20100033571 | TRAFFIC INFORMATION DETECTOR, TRAFFIC INFORMATION DETECTING METHOD, TRAFFIC INFORMATION DETECTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A traffic information detecting apparatus includes a camera; a driving unit that is equipped with the camera and defines a shooting direction of the camera; an image processing unit that executes predetermined processing with respect to an image of a traffic signal captured by the camera and detects a state of the traffic signal; and a control unit that drives the driving unit based on a detection result of the image processing unit. The image processing unit further recognizes a light type of the traffic signal from an image of a road along which a vehicle is traveling, the image of the road being captured by the camera; and according to the light type detected by the image processing unit, the control unit drives the driving unit to enable the shooting direction of the camera to be defined. | 02-11-2010 |
20100110193 | LANE RECOGNITION DEVICE, VEHICLE, LANE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND LANE RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A lane recognition device recognizes a lane along which a vehicle travels by detecting a lane mark provided on the road to define the lane, from an image of the road acquired via an image acquisition device mounted on the vehicle. The lane recognition device is equipped with an object detection unit which detects an object other than the lane mark existing ahead of the vehicle, and a lane mark detection unit which detects the lane mark on the basis of the data from which the area corresponding to the object detected by the object detection unit is removed. By doing so, when recognizing the lane along which the vehicle travels by detecting the lane mark from the image of the road, the recognition accuracy of the lane is improved by appropriately removing influence of the object other than the lane mark captured in the image of the road. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110194 | Method For Automatically Calibrating A Virtual Camera System - A method for producing a time sequence of images of motor vehicle surroundings from a virtual elevated central perspective on a display wherein several cameras are used to record time sequences of subimage data records from a plurality of real perspectives differently offset and tilted with respect to the virtual perspective. Then, parameterized transformations are applied for obtaining sequences of transformed subimage data records and overall image data for an overall image from the virtual perspective is assembled. Finally, the sequence of the overall image data is displayed as an overall image. To compensate for positional and/or orientation deviations in the recording cameras a selection unit is proposed to recurrently apply a selection criterion for selecting a subimage data record from the sequence and to take this as a basis for redetermining the parameters of the transformations by an optimization method under a quality criterion for the overall image. | 05-06-2010 |
20100141765 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES, FOR DETECTING THE CONDITION OF THE ROAD SURFACE - An optical device for motor vehicles, designed to detect the condition of the road surface, comprises a unit for the emission of electromagnetic radiation in the direction of the road surface to be detected, a receiving unit coupled to an optical element for focusing the radiation back-diffused by the road surface and an electronic control and processing unit for receiving signals at output from said receiving unit and for processing them in order to determine the condition of the road surface, on the basis of a reference map. Appearing in said map are the values of the intensity of radiation I | 06-10-2010 |
20100157061 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HANDHELD DEVICE BASED VEHICLE MONITORING AND DRIVER ASSISTANCE - A method of operating a general purpose handheld communication device to monitor traffic events is disclosed. The handheld communication device is detachably mountable on a vehicle and includes a motion sensor, a video imaging sensor, a data processor, data storage medium, and data communication module. The method includes acquiring motion data using the motion sensor; identifying a traffic event based on the motion data; acquiring visual data using the video imaging sensor; saving data that includes the acquired visual data and motion data on the data storage medium; and communicating the saved data using the communication module. | 06-24-2010 |
20100231720 | Traffic Monitoring - A method of monitoring traffic on a road comprising capturing a plurality of images of the road using a camera mounted on a viewing point and associating a time of capture with each image, determining, from the captured images, the positions of the portions of the road surface visible from the viewpoint at the front and rear extremities of the extent of a vehicle in the captured images at two different times; and determining from the positions and the times of the instants at least one characteristic of the vehicle or its motion, such as the vehicle length, speed or a vehicle classification (truck, car, motorcycle, etc). | 09-16-2010 |
20100245581 | WARNING DISPLAY SYSTEM - The purpose of this invention is to provide a warning display system on which a warning from an emergency vehicle is displayed as letters. When an emergency vehicle emits letter information of ‘please leave the left traffic lane’ by acoustic watermarking (electronic watermarking) together with siren sound on a congested expressway, among general vehicles, vehicles driving on a left lane and having devices capable of receiving the information in a range in which sound can reach change the lane to a center lane. Because among the general vehicles, vehicles driving on the center lane and having devices capable of receiving the information allow vehicles traveling on the left lane to move to the center lane, the left lane becomes empty and the emergency vehicle can smoothly drive on the left lane. | 09-30-2010 |
20100283856 | Method For Calibrating The Image Of A Camera - A method for calibrating the image ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100302371 | Vehicle tailgating detection system - Vehicle tailgating detection system comprising an unmarked police vehicle having a back end, a camera, still or video, installed on the police vehicle facing rearwards for acquiring and recording visual identification information about the tailgating vehicle during the tailgating incident, and a proximity sensor installed on the police vehicle to determine and transmit information about the distance between the unmarked police vehicle and the tailgating vehicle. Also included is a data processing computer for recording and processing identifying information about the tailgating vehicle, information about the distance between the vehicles and the speed of the vehicles, and information about the location, date and time of the tailgating incident. A global positioning navigation device for acquiring and recording information about the location coordinates of the vehicles during the tailgating incident and means to print a report with details about the tailgating incident from which a moving violation citation may be issued are also provided. | 12-02-2010 |
20100328464 | CAR-MOUNT TRAFFIC CONDITION SURVEILLANCE DEVICE - A car-mount traffic condition surveillance device includes an image acquisition unit, a control unit, an input unit, an image display unit, and a power supply unit. The image acquisition unit includes first and second image acquisition units for respectively acquiring images of street corners or lane entrances closely located in front of the left and the right side of the car. The input unit can send an actuating signal for the control unit to transmit the images acquired by the first and second image acquisition units to the image display unit for displaying on a split screen, allowing the drive to view the images at the same time so as to avoid collision of the car with another car unexpectedly coming out from any of the street corners or lane entrances. | 12-30-2010 |
20110013022 | MULTILANE VEHICLE INFORMATION CAPTURE SYSTEM - A system and method for accurate express tolling of highway vehicles. A multilane tolling system comprises a tolling (MVIC) unit that collects information from tolling subsystems arranged to take various vehicle measurements. Preferably, an intelligent vehicle identification subsystem sends vehicle information to the MVIC unit many times per second. Preferably, a vision tracking system (VTS) communicates with the MVIC unit and sends the latter information about the vehicle position using vision tracking sensors. Preferably, an RF subsystem conducts multiple reads of a transponder on a passing vehicle and forwards the read information to the MVIC unit. Preferably, a vehicle image capture unit (VICU) captures images of the passing vehicle when a camera in the VICU receives a trigger from the MVIC unit. Preferably, a driver alert module is used alert a driver passing through a tolling point as to account balance associated with a silent toll tag or pay by plate system. | 01-20-2011 |
20110043635 | VEHICLE DRIVING EVALUATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A vehicle driving evaluation apparatus ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110058041 | ROUTE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A route monitoring system for a vehicle includes at least one camera, disposed at the route end, for recording video data relating indirectly or directly to a route section on which the vehicle travels, at least one display device for displaying the recorded video data, and a control device which indirectly or directly communicates with the at least one camera and the at least one display device. The control device is configured to display the video data recorded by the camera on the display device. The control device communicates with a vehicle control and/or operations command/control system for operating the vehicle and receives data from the vehicle control and operations command/control system, which data allow the respective vehicle location to be determined. The video data device is configured such that it displays the video data of the at least one camera on the display device depending on the respective vehicle location. | 03-10-2011 |
20110096167 | OPERATING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM A ROAD NETWORK WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE - The invention pertains to a supervision system which allows significant aid to be afforded to the operators of large road networks. Image sensors, autonomous from the electrical standpoint and comprising software for automatically detecting incidents, transmit alarms to a network management center by way of a wireless communication network. Swivelable cameras may be pointed at the alarm zones so as to perform zooms displayed on the screens of the operators of the center. The alarms are ranked by order of technical priority and then as a function of service quality criteria defined by the operator. They may be distributed into alarms requiring immediate action and other alarms. They can also be distributed into alarms for which an automatic action may be triggered and may suffice for the resolution of the incident and alarms requiring an operator action. | 04-28-2011 |
20110128381 | Quick Pass Exit/Entrance Installation and Monitoring Method - A quick pass exit/entrance installation and method is particularly adaptable for controlling and monitoring the exit and return of vehicles to and from a secured area. The identification of the driver and the vehicle is automatically determined and the exiting transaction is undertaken while the driver remains seated in the vehicle. The vehicle VIN and the image of the license plate may be automatically obtained at both the exit and entrance lanes. An image of substantially all four sides of the vehicle may be automatically obtained on both exiting and entering the facility. The information is processed and receipts are issued while the driver remains seated in the vehicle. | 06-02-2011 |
20110141282 | INTERSECTION SITUATION RECOGNITION SYSTEM - An image pickup device that picks up an image of a direction not visible from a vehicle that is about to enter an intersection, and transmits the picked-up image to the vehicle is installed in the vicinity of a blind intersection. In addition, an in-vehicle device that receives the image from the image pickup device, and displays the image on a display device is mounted in the vehicle. The in-vehicle device retrieves an image pickup device identification number of an image pickup device installed at the intersection that the vehicle is about to enter and transmits the retrieved image pickup device identification number to the image pickup device and, only when an image pickup device identification number received from the image pickup device together with an intersection image and the retrieved image pickup device identification number match with each other, the in-vehicle device displays the received intersection image. | 06-16-2011 |
20110157363 | ONBOARD UNIT FOR A ROAD TOLL SYSTEM - An onboard unit for a road toll system including: at least one transceiver for transmitting toll-relevant data to transceiver stations for forwarding to a central processing unit of the road toll system; and at least one camera, which is directed towards an environment in front of a vehicle carrying the onboard unit and can create at least one image recording of at least one section of the environment. The camera forms an object detector, which detects the presence of an object remaining substantially stationary in a moving environment of the vehicle and upon detection of such an object causes the camera to record an image. | 06-30-2011 |
20110169957 | Vehicle Image Processing Method - A method for processing an image of the exterior of a vehicle includes transmitting successive camera images from a camera to a processor. Optical flow vectors from the multiple camera images are estimated. The optical flow vectors are compared and objects located on the ground are separated from objects located above the ground. Vehicle motion is estimated. Data from the successive camera images is processed to create an estimated three-dimensional (3D) bird's eye view image, and the bird's eye view image is displayed. | 07-14-2011 |
20110169958 | Lane Determining Device and Navigation System - Provided is a lane determining device that is capable of quickly and accurately determining the lane traveled by a host vehicle traveling on a road with a plurality of lanes in each direction. A lane determining device that determines the lane traveled by the host vehicle traveling on a road with a plurality of lanes in each direction comprises: road geometry obtaining means that obtains road geometry; imaging means that images the road; division line recognition means that recognizes a division line from an image imaged by the imaging means; first path computation means that computes a path of the host vehicle by repeatedly computing a distance from the division line recognized by the division line recognition means to the imaging means; second path computation means that computes a path of the host vehicle based on the road geometry obtained by the road geometry obtaining means and on autonomous navigation; third path computation means that computes a path of the host vehicle based on a first path computed by the first path computation means and on a second path computed by the second path computation means; and traveled lane determination means that determines the lane traveled by the host vehicle based on a third path computed by the third path computation means. | 07-14-2011 |
20110211071 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING BRIGHTNESS VALUES IN SENSOR IMAGES OF IMAGE-EVALUATING ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEMS, ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO DAY/NIGHT DISTINCTION - The invention proposes a method and an arrangement for evaluating sensor images of an image-evaluating environment recognition system on a carrier, in which, in order to distinguish the light conditions in the area of the image-evaluating environment recognition system with regard to day or night, at least the gain and/or the exposure time of the at least one image sensor detecting the environment is/are monitored, a profile of the gain and/or the exposure time against time with relatively high gain or relatively long exposure times characterizing night-time light conditions, and a profile of the gain and/or the exposure time with relatively low gain and/or relatively short exposure times characterizing daytime light conditions. The environment recognition system according to the invention can also be used to search the detected environment for bright objects, the headlights of another carrier being used as additional information, for example. | 09-01-2011 |
20110216202 | TRAFFIC SIGN CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - A method and device are described which are configured to establish whether a traffic sign has at least one graphical feature extending linearly thereon. A portion of image data which represents at least a portion of the traffic sign is identified. Coefficients of a two-dimensional spectral representation of the portion of the image data are calculated. The coefficients of the two-dimensional spectral representation are determined for Fourier space coordinates disposed along a line in Fourier space. Based on the determined coefficients it is established whether the traffic sign has the at least one graphical feature extending linearly on the traffic sign. | 09-08-2011 |
20110242324 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image display apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires traffic information concerning a specified region; a displaying unit that displays a photographic image of the specified region; and a display controlling unit that, when a congestion state depicted in a road part of the photographic image of the specified region and a congestion state indicated by the traffic information acquired by the acquiring unit differ, processes the road part into an image depicting an actual congestion state according to the traffic information and causes the image to be displayed on the display unit. | 10-06-2011 |
20110261202 | Method and System for an Integrated Safe City Environment including E-City Support - Described are use of clustered intelligent method of using video analytics, event driven systems and policy management for integrated approach to implement safe environment, such as a “Safe City” or “E-City,” supporting improvement in security and energy savings. The exemplary “Safe City” environment uses streaming video technologies, multi-function open source software, and high compression capabilities. Surveillance data of a predetermined geographical area may obtained using a computing arrangement, analyzing the surveillance data to detect at least one of a predetermined activity and a predetermined behavior of a entity within the predetermined geographical area, and adjusting at least one operation within the predetermined geographical area based on the at least one predetermined activity and predetermined behavior of the entity. | 10-27-2011 |
20110267468 | HANDHELD DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING ABNORMAL SITUATIONS OF VEHICLES - A handheld device monitors an abnormal situation of a vehicle in real-time, and continuously records video and audio information of the vehicle. The handheld device continuously caches the recorded video and audio information, and stores the video and audio information within a first fixed time period. The handheld device stores the video and audio information within a second fixed time period when an abnormal situation of the vehicle occurs, and the video and audio information within the second fixed time period is not covered by video and audio information recorded by the video and audio recording module. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267469 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERLAYING DATA ONTO IMAGES OF A TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT CAMERA - A system and method for overlaying data, in the form of a databar, onto image frames that collectively show a video of a traffic violation event. In the system and method, a digital video of the violation event is first captured, where the video is comprised of a plurality of image frames of the violation event. Pertinent data corresponding to the violation event is determined and then this data is overlaid onto each image frame as a databar. In this manner, a single integrated file showing an image frame, having the databar overlaid thereon, may be stored in a database for evidentiary purposes to be reviewed by traffic enforcement personnel. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267470 | RADIO BEACON FOR A WIRELESS ROAD TOLL SYSTEM - A radio beacon for a wireless road toll system including a transceiver, which is arranged for packet-type radio communication with onboard units of passing vehicles; at least one camera for recording an image of a passing object; and a control device connecting to the transceiver and the camera. The control device is configured to measure, in conjunction with the transceiver, the number of data packets received per unit time from a specific onboard unit and to actuate the camera to record an image of the object carrying this onboard unit, in the case of a number exceeding a threshold value. | 11-03-2011 |
20110273566 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image recording apparatus suitable for recording a traffic signal violation at an intersection controlled by a traffic light is described. The image recording apparatus includes a first camera focused on the intersection, and a second camera focused on a first lane of a street leading to the intersection. A first control circuit is coupled to the first camera causes the first camera to capture a first image at substantially an instant of time that the traffic light indicates a change of traffic control status. The apparatus also includes a detection circuit to detect when a portion of a vehicle crosses a trigger location in the first lane after the change in traffic control status. A second control circuit coupled to the second camera causes the second camera to capture a close-up image of the vehicle in the event that the detection circuit detects the portion of the vehicle at the trigger location after a change in traffic control status. | 11-10-2011 |
20110298928 | SIMULATED VIDEO WITH EXTRA VIEWPOINTS AND ENHANCED RESOLUTION FOR TRAFFIC CAMERAS - Simulated high resolution, multi-view video based on video input from low resolution, single-direction cameras is provided. Video received from traffic cameras, security cameras, monitoring cameras, and comparable ones is fused with patches from a database of pre-captured images and/or temporally shifted video to create higher quality video, as well as multiple viewpoints for the same camera. | 12-08-2011 |
20120044353 | VIDEO RADAR DISPLAY SYSTEM - A video radar display system is provided. The video radar display system includes a camera array, an image processing unit, and a display unit. The camera array includes a plurality of cameras individually positioned for photographing a plurality of images from a plurality of different directions. The image processing unit receives the photographed images from the camera array for conducting an object recognition process, and referring to an object database to reconstruct an environment, so as to generate object display information. The display unit receives the object display information and displays an image according to the received object display information, or project the image to a monitor or head-up display for displaying. The cameras of the camera array are dual-lens cameras or tri-lens cameras. Specifically, the dual-lens camera has two lenses horizontally provided for capturing two images at the same time for determining the distance. | 02-23-2012 |
20120062747 | LANE FUSION SYSTEM USING FORWARD-VIEW AND REAR-VIEW CAMERAS - A method and system for computing lane curvature and a host vehicle's position and orientation relative to lane boundaries, using image data from forward-view and rear-view cameras and vehicle dynamics sensors as input. A host vehicle includes cameras at the front and rear, which can be used to detect lane boundaries such as curbs and lane stripes, among other purposes. The host vehicle also includes vehicle dynamics sensors including vehicle speed and yaw rate. A method is developed which computes lane curvature and the host vehicle's position relative to a lane reference path, where the lane reference path is derived from the lane boundaries extracted from a fusion of the front and rear camera images. Mathematical models provided in the disclosure include a Kalman filter tracking routine and a particle filter tracking routine. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062748 | VISUALIZING VIDEO WITHIN EXISTING STILL IMAGES - Video from a video camera can be integrated into a still image, with which it shares common elements, to provide greater context and understandability. Pre-processing can derive transformation parameters for transforming and aligning the video to be integrated into the still image in a visually fluid manner. The transformation parameters can then be utilized to transform and align the video in real-time and display it within the still image. Pre-processing can comprise stabilization of video, if the video camera is moveable, and can comprise identification of areas of motion and of static elements. Transformation parameters can be derived by fitting the static elements of the video to portions of one or more existing images. Display of the video in real-time in the still image can include display of the entire transformed and aligned video image, or of only selected sections, to provide for a smoother visual integration. | 03-15-2012 |
20120113262 | Mobile Device and Method for Monitoring of Vehicles - A mobile monitoring device including a first sensor for measuring the speed of vehicles passing through a first detection range with a first time stamp; a second sensor for measuring the geometry of vehicles passing through a second detection range with a second time stamp; a camera for recording images of vehicles passing through a third detection range with a third time stamp; and an evaluation device, which calculates from the speed measurement value, first time stamp and first detection range, and from the geometry measurement value, second time stamp and second detection range, the place and time in or at which a passage of the vehicle is to be expected in the third detection range, to determine the matching image on the basis of the third time stamp and third detection range therefrom. The invention additionally relates to such a monitoring method. | 05-10-2012 |
20120127313 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE-BASED ILLUMINATION IN INSUFFICIENTLY ILLUMINATED TRAFFIC ENVIRONMENTS - In a method for a vehicle-based illumination of traffic environments, light is irradiated from a vehicle into a traffic environment to detect critical objects, with the intensity averaged over time being reduced when producing the light so as to prevent the human eye from being blinded. The light is irradiated intermittently into the traffic environment in accordance with ON periods and OFF periods. In an OFF period, no light is irradiated from the light source into the traffic environment, while during an ON period the light is irradiated in the traffic environment. | 05-24-2012 |
20120133770 | Vehicle operator and/or occupant information apparatus and method - An apparatus and method for providing information to a vehicle operator or occupant, which includes a receiver, for receiving a request for information from a vehicle operator or occupant, a processing device, for processing the request for information, and a transmitter, for transmitting the requested information to the vehicle operator or occupant. The information includes video information regarding one of a traffic condition and a road condition. | 05-31-2012 |
20120147189 | ADAPTATION FOR CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING RELIABLE LOCAL MODEL UPDATING - A method and system for vehicular clear path detection using adaptive machine learning techniques including reliable local model updating. Digital camera images are segmented into patches, from which characteristic features are extracted representing attributes such as color and texture. The patch features are analyzed by a Support Vector Machine (SVM) or other machine learning classifier, which has been previously trained to recognize clear path image regions. The SVM classifier is adaptively updated using reliable local test samples, such as positive clear path samples which just passed by the vehicle. The resultant classifier, being continuously and adaptively updated with recent, reliable training samples, exhibits improved performance and accuracy in analyzing subsequent image regions or patches for the existence of a clear driving path. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147190 | VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION, TRACKING AND ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM - A method for capturing and displaying vehicle undercarriage images comprising detecting a vehicle's presence, acquiring an image of the vehicle using a first camera, acquiring scene images associated with the vehicle using one or more second cameras, wherein the first camera and the one or more second cameras are controlled by a processor, and wherein the processor is connected to a network, transmitting the vehicle image and the scene images to one or more systems through the network, storing the vehicle image and the scene images in a relational database connected to the network and displaying the vehicle image and the scene images to an operator. | 06-14-2012 |
20120162431 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING TRAFFIC FLOW - In accordance with certain embodiments, a method of monitoring traffic includes capturing a plurality of time-separated images of a moving vehicle, calculating a velocity of the vehicle based on at least two of the images, and obtaining vehicle-identifying information from at least one of the images or transmitting a notification to a central location if the velocity is greater than a threshold velocity. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162432 | METHOD FOR CAPTURING IMAGES OF VEHICLES - A method for capturing images of vehicles at excessive speeds including: generating a random access identifier for and capturing an image of the vehicle at the entry and storing them in a first memory which can only be accessed via the access identifier, recording the entry time and an entry identifier at the entry, forming an encrypted or hashed value of the entry identifier and storing the entry time, the value and the access identifier as a data set in a second memory, recording the exit time and an exit identifier at the exit, forming an encrypted or hashed value of the exit identifier and ascertaining the data set with it from the second memory. If the exit time lies within a preset time span from the entry time, using the access identifier for accessing the first memory to retrieve the stored entry image of the vehicle. | 06-28-2012 |
20120194681 | AUTOMATIC CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of analyzing images over time is provided herein. The method includes: capturing a plurality of images each associated with specified objects in specified locations such that a specified area is covered; specifying regions of interest (ROI) in each of the captured images; repeating the capturing with at least one of: a different location, a different orientation, and a different timing such that the captured images are associated with the specified covered area; and comparing the captured imaged produced in the capturing with the captured imaged produced in the repeating of the capturing to yield comparison between the captured objects by comparing specified ROI. | 08-02-2012 |
20120206602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE SPEED OF A VEHICLE - A system for measuring the speed of a vehicle includes: one or more cameras ( | 08-16-2012 |
20120212617 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS ON RESTRICTED ROADWAYS - A system and method automatically detect traffic violations on roadways or portions thereof that are restricted for use only by permitted vehicles. The system comprises a controller, a vehicle sensor, and a camera. The vehicle sensor detects vehicle movement on a restricted roadway. Data from the camera and the vehicle sensor are analyzed by the controller to detect a vehicle traveling on the restricted roadway, to gather static vehicle information to determine whether the detected vehicle is permitted to use the restricted roadway, and to determine whether movements of the detected vehicle on the restricted roadway constitute a violation of traffic rules in effect on the roadway. The method captures at least one image of a vehicle on a region of the roadway, detects a vehicle in the region, collects vehicle movement information, and detects a violation of traffic rules in effect using at least the collected vehicle movement information. | 08-23-2012 |
20120229646 | REAL-TIME DYNAMIC REFERENCE IMAGE GENERATION FOR RANGE IMAGING SYSTEM - A dynamic reference range image generation method comprises providing a reference range image, to be dynamically updated, composed of pixels, each of which contains a reference range value. An acquired range image is provided, the pixels of which contain each a measured range value, the measured range values being updated at a predetermined rate. Pixels of the acquired range image containing an invalid measured range value are accordingly marked. The measured range value of each pixel of the acquired range image not marked as containing an invalid measured range value is compared with the reference range value of the corresponding pixel of the reference range image. The reference range value of that pixel of the reference range image is updated e.g. to the measured range value or to an average of the measured range value and one or more prior measured range values if a) the measured range value is considered less than the reference range value and has remained substantially constant for a first time period, or if b) the measured range value is considered greater than the reference range value and has remained substantially constant for a second time period smaller than the first time period. If neither of conditions a) and b) is fulfilled, the reference range value is kept substantially constant instead. | 09-13-2012 |
20120236153 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDIUM FOR STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a first processing unit which performs correction in which an image acquired by a camera moving with a moving vehicle is displaced in a moving direction of the moving vehicle in accordance with a moving amount of the camera from a predetermined position on a moving path of the moving vehicle to an image acquiring position at which the camera acquires the image, a second processing unit which performs correction in which a size of the image acquired by the camera is changed in accordance with a distance between the area of the object and the camera when the camera acquires the image using a size of a predetermined image acquired by the camera and a distance corresponding to the predetermined image, and a third processing unit which arranges a plurality of images corrected by the first and the second processing units to generate an inspection image. | 09-20-2012 |
20120274772 | Railway Track Monitoring - Novel tools and techniques for monitoring railway track geometry. In one aspect, some such tools and techniques can determine a location of a platform along a railway, capture one or more images of the railway, and/or analyze the rail configuration at that point. In another aspect, some solutions might employ photogrammetric techniques to analyze the rail configuration and thereafter store data about the rail configuration, perhaps correlated with the location of the images, in a data store. | 11-01-2012 |
20120307063 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL TRAFFIC INDICATING DEVICE - A traffic indicating device includes a support body, a traffic indicating assembly, an illuminating assembly, and a control module. The support body comprises a main portion and an arm portion perpendicular connected to an end of the main portion. The traffic indicating assembly is mounted to the support body. The illuminating assembly comprises a rod portion mounted to the end of the support body opposite to the arm portion and a light mounted on a distal end of the rod portion. The control module controls the traffic indicating assembly to indicate the traffic and controls the light to illuminating the road. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307064 | DETECTION OF TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS - In general, embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for detecting possible traffic violations of vehicles. For example, in one embodiment, this may include receiving an indication that a school bus has entered or is entering a stopped position. After receiving an indication that the school bus has entered or is entering the stopped position, an area proximate the school bus can be monitored to detect possible traffic violations. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307065 | ACTIVE 3D MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC DETECTION - The traffic detection system includes an optical unit having an emitter module emitting pulses; a receiver module having a field of view including a plurality of adjacent detection channels receiving pulses reflected by an object and acquiring and converting the received pulses into a corresponding plurality of a digital signal waveforms; an image sensing module providing an image. The method comprises providing a status overlay image including the image and a visual indication on the image of an outline of the plurality of adjacent detection channels; positioning the field of view to cover the detection zone using the status overlay image; obtaining the plurality of digital signal waveforms; detecting a signal echo caused by an object in one of the digital signal waveforms at a position within the field of view; determining a location for the object using the position; storing the location for the object. | 12-06-2012 |
20130044219 | AUTOMATED PROCESSING METHOD FOR BUS CROSSING ENFORCEMENT - As set forth herein, systems and methods are described that facilitate to analyze a video stream from a camera mounted on the side of a school bus, wherein a sub-set of video sequences showing cars illegally passing the stopped school bus are automatically identified through image and/or video processing. The described systems and methods provide a significant savings in terms of the amount of manual review that is required to identify such violations. The video sequences also can be analyzed further to additionally produce images of the license plate (for identification of the violator), thereby providing further reduction in required human processing and review time. In one embodiment, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) is employed to identify text on the violator's license plate, as well as the state by which the license plate was issued, without requiring human review of the license plate image. | 02-21-2013 |
20130050494 | IMAGING METHOD - The invention relates to an imaging method, including reconstructing a final image (IF) from intensity values inputted by a limited selection of photodetectors ( | 02-28-2013 |
20130057691 | PROVIDING CONTENT RESPONSIVE TO MULTIMEDIA SIGNALS - A method of providing information including providing a communication session of at least one of audio and video media and applying automatic recognition to media transferred on the communication session. An advertisement is selected by a processor, based on the automatic recognition and non-advertisement information is selected by the processor, responsive to the automatic recognition. The selected advertisements and the selected non-advertisement information, are presented during the communication session. | 03-07-2013 |
20130088600 | MULTI-RESOLUTION VIDEO ANALYSIS AND KEY FEATURE PRESERVING VIDEO REDUCTION STRATEGY FOR (REAL-TIME) VEHICLE TRACKING AND SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are disclosed that include a video-based analysis system that detects, tracks and archives vehicles in video stream data at multiple resolutions. The system includes an image capturing device that captures video stream data having video at a first high resolution. A vehicle detection module detects at least one vehicle within the video. A vehicle analysis module is configured to analyze the video and to extract one or more key vehicle features from the video to enable identification of a vehicle of interest (VOI) according to a set of predetermined criteria. A subsampling module creates a reduced resolution video stream in a second subsampled resolution that is lower than the first high resolution while maintaining the one or more extracted key features within the reduced resolution video stream in the first high resolution, and archives the reduced resolution video stream into a video database. | 04-11-2013 |
20130093895 | SYSTEM FOR COLLISION PREDICTION AND TRAFFIC VIOLATION DETECTION - The invention refers to a system for monitoring, analyzing and reporting incidences of traffic violations at a predetermined area in real-time, prospectively or retrospectively. Specifically, the invention refers to a system and method of monitoring, analyzing, predicting and reporting or warning the incidence of a past or imminent traffic violation by acquiring a moving object within a predetermined boundary, assigning a path to the moving object and based on a plurality of thresholds, determining the likelihood of a traffic violation type and occurrence. | 04-18-2013 |
20130135478 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING LANE INFORMATION WITH A FAR-INFRARED NIGHT VISION IMAGE - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for combining lane information with a far-infrared image, by combining an image taken by a far-infrared image capturing device with a lane information image, and displaying the combined image such that a driver can visualize the location and position of the road lanes on a night vision image that allows visualization of objects such as, for example, animals, people, vehicles, and the like, in the road at night, or in inclement weather conditions, thereby ensuring safe driving while preventing the driver from veering out of a road lane. | 05-30-2013 |
20130147959 | DETERMINING A PIXEL CLASSIFICATION THRESHOLD FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANCY DETECTION - What is disclosed is a system and method for determining a pixel classification threshold for vehicle occupancy determination. An IR image of a moving vehicle is captured using a multi-band IR imaging system. A driver's face is detected using a face recognition algorithm. Multi-spectral information extracted from pixels identified as human tissue of the driver's face is used to determine a pixel classification threshold. This threshold is then used to facilitate a classification of pixels of a remainder of the IR image. Once pixels in the remainder of the image have been classified, a determination can be made whether the vehicle contains additional human occupants other than the driver. An authority is alerted in the instance where the vehicle is found to be traveling in a HOV/HOT lane requiring two or more human occupants and a determination has been made that the vehicle contains an insufficient number of human occupants. | 06-13-2013 |
20130208121 | TRAFFIC CAMERA DIAGNOSTICS VIA TEST TARGETS - A method, system, and computer-usable tangible storage device for traffic camera diagnostics via strategic use of moving test targets are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments can comprise four modules: Moving test target management module, Moving test target detection and identification module, Image/video feature extraction module, and Sensor characterization and diagnostics module. A first test vehicle can travel periodically through traffic camera(s) of interest. The traffic camera(s) would then identify these test vehicles via matching of license plate numbers and then identify test targets in video frames through pattern matching or barcode reading. The identified test targets are then analyzed to extract image and video features that can be used for sensor characterization, sensor health assessment, and sensor diagnostics. The disclosed embodiments provide for a non-traffic-stop (i.e., non-traffic-interruption) traffic camera diagnostics. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215273 | TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF - An apparatus for monitoring and reporting suspect traffic violations is provided. The Apparatus comprises at least one video camera for capturing a video clip of a suspect traffic violation by an offending vehicle; a processor coupled to the at least one video camera, the processor configured to detect the suspect traffic violation based on a particular set of traffic violations and definitions of triggering events; and an interface to a network for reporting the detected suspect traffic violation. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215274 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WARNING A DRIVER OF CARELESS DRIVING - Provided is an apparatus for sensing careless driving using a camera attached to a vehicle and warning a driver of a careless driving state, the apparatus including: a driving state determination unit for sensing a driving state of a vehicle based on a video of lanes; a lane-deviation sensing unit for sensing whether the vehicle deviated from the lane based on the video of lanes received from an image-processing unit; and a careless driving warning unit for generating a warning signal based on driving state information and lane deviation information received from the driving state determination unit and the lane-deviation sensing unit, respectively. | 08-22-2013 |
20130242104 | TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING ROADWAY CONDITION - A traffic monitoring system includes a plurality of cameras, a monitor center and a portable electronic device. The cameras are respectively positioned at a plurality of monitoring regions to obtain images of the monitoring regions. The monitor center receives the images of the monitoring regions from the cameras and determines a traffic information in the monitoring regions according to the images. The portable electronic device is communicated with the monitor center and receives the traffic information from the monitor center. A method for monitoring a roadway condition is also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
20130286208 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING MULTI-OBJECT ANOMALIES UTILIZING JOINT SPARSE RECONSTRUCTION MODEL - Methods and systems for automatically detecting multi-object anomalies at a traffic intersection utilizing a joint sparse reconstruction model. A first input video sequence at a first traffic location can be received and at least one normal event involving P moving objects (where P is greater than or equal to 1) can be identified in an offline training phase. The normal event in the first input video sequence can be assigned to at least one normal event class and a training dictionary suitable for joint sparse reconstruction can be built in the offline training phase. A second input video sequence captured at a second traffic location similar to the first traffic location can be received and at least one event involving P moving objects can be identified in an online detection phase. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293717 | FULL SPEED LANE SENSING WITH A SURROUNDING VIEW SYSTEM - A system and method for providing lane sensing on a vehicle by detecting roadway lane-markers, where the system employs a surround view camera system providing a top-down view image around the vehicle. The method includes detecting left-side and right-side lane boundary lines in the top-down view image, and then determining whether the lane boundary lines in the image are aligned from one image frame to a next image frame and are aligned from image to image in the top-down view image. If the boundary lines are not aligned, then calibration of one or more of the cameras is performed, and if the lines are aligned, then a model fitting process is used to specifically identify the location of the boundary lines on the roadway. | 11-07-2013 |
20130300873 | METHOD FOR MULTICHANNEL VIDEO SURVEILLANCE OF TRAFFIC INTERCHANGES - A method for multichannel video monitoring of traffic interchanges relating to methods for multichannel video monitoring of congestion at traffic interchanges. To broaden the functionality by providing picture transmission in real time from several video cameras spread at different distances and displaying the picture on monitors, video cameras are placed at traffic interchanges, and the information received from the video cameras is transmitted over a data transmission system bus to the central reception console where the information received from the video cameras is processed and fed to a broadcasting studio equipment room where the information is formed, for instance, by multiplexing and displayed on the end user's screen, wherein any known system for presenting processed information to the end user is used, for instance, cable TV channels by means of which the filling with pictures received from video cameras placed at traffic interchanges is performed in real time. | 11-14-2013 |
20140002661 | TRAFFIC CAMERA DIAGNOSTICS VIA SMART NETWORK | 01-02-2014 |
20140071286 | METHOD FOR STOP SIGN LAW ENFORCEMENT USING MOTION VECTORS IN VIDEO STREAMS - A method for enforcing traffic signal compliance includes acquiring a series of temporal related image frames including a target area. Each image frame includes pixel data representative of the target area. The method includes generating one or more motion vectors between two or more of the image frames. The motion vectors are the type produced by compressing the pixel data associated with the two or more image frames. The method includes associating a cluster of motion vectors with a vehicle. The method further includes tracking a position of the vehicle across the two or more image frames. Using the tracking results, the method includes determining whether the vehicle stops in the target area. For the vehicle being determined as not stopping, the method includes signaling an occurrence of noncompliance. | 03-13-2014 |
20140104428 | AIRPORT TARGET TRACKING SYSTEM - A system for tracking objects using an Intelligent Video processing system in the context of airport surface monitoring. The system addresses airport surface monitoring operational issues such as all weather conditions, high robustness, and low false report rate. The output can be used to complement existing airport surface monitoring systems. By combining the use of multi-sensors and an adverse weather optimized system, the system is capable of producing an improved stream of information for the target object over traditional computer vision based airport surface monitoring systems. | 04-17-2014 |
20140118553 | Electronic Traffic Alert System - A traffic control system includes a traffic display for installation near or adjacent existing street signage, which illuminates the signage and displays messages relating to traffic conditions including emergency conditions or the approach of an emergency vehicle. The traffic display is associated with a camera unit, which provides redundant confirmation with a central traffic control that the display is operating correctly, and displaying the message communicated to central traffic control or at its direction. The traffic control system advises drivers of changing traffic conditions in real time, provides control of the system from central traffic control, and allows central traffic control to monitor the functioning of the traffic display. | 05-01-2014 |
20140267733 | SINGLE CAMERA VIDEO-BASED SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM WITH A SECONDARY AUXILIARY RGB TRAFFIC CAMERA - When performing video-based speed enforcement a main camera and a secondary RGB traffic camera are employed to provide improved accuracy of speed measurement and improved evidentiary photo quality compared to single camera approaches. The RGB traffic camera provides sparse secondary video data at a lower cost than a conventional stereo camera. The sparse stereo processing is performed using the main camera data and the sparse RGB camera data to estimate a height of one or more tracked vehicle features, which in turn is used to improve speed estimate accuracy. By using secondary video, spatio-temporally sparse stereo processing is enabled specifically for estimating the height of a vehicle feature above the road surface. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267734 | System and Method for Monitoring Vehicle Traffic and Controlling Traffic Signals - A system and method for monitoring objects, such as vehicle traffic, and controlling a flow of the objects, such as vehicle traffic, through a flow point, such as an intersection having traffic control signals. At least one three-dimensional (3D) vector imaging sensor is operable for detecting an object and capturing node-based object with motion vector data relating to the object. A Sensor Processing Unit (SPU) is associated with the vector imaging sensor(s) and operable for processing the mode-based object with motion vector data, determining a tracked object from a plurality of the objects detected by the vector imaging sensor(s) and extracting the object data of the tracked object to an object database. A Central Tracking Unit (CTU) is associated with the SPU and operable for classifying the tracked object, generating object tracking data from the tracked object, predicting a future object state of the tracked object, and generating an object control output for controlling a control signal to thereby facilitate the flow of the objects through the flow point. | 09-18-2014 |
20140333771 | Operations Monitoring in an Area - A solution for monitoring an area including one or more restricted zones is provided. The solution can include one or more monitoring assemblies deployed to acquire image data of the area and independently monitor operations within the area at each monitoring assembly. A monitoring assembly can include one or more local alert components to generate an audible or visual alarm to local personnel. Data regarding static features present in the area can be used to create a registration map of the field of view, which can subsequently enable accurate determination of the three-dimensional location of a target using two-dimensional image data and/or identify an extent of a restricted zone even when one or more of the static features are obscured. Monitoring a target over a series of images can be used to determine whether an alert condition is present. | 11-13-2014 |
20140362222 | DYNAMIC ZONE STABILIZATION AND MOTION COMPENSATION IN A TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A traffic management apparatus and system performs data processing functions on images in a video data stream to analyze differences between portions of the images and account for movement of a camera at a traffic intersection or other such environment. The traffic management apparatus and system is configured to be placed on a span wire or other non-fixed position at or near the traffic intersection. | 12-11-2014 |
20150054957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SEQUENCING OF VEHICLE UNDER LOW SPEED CONDITIONS FROM VIDEO - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium is disclosed for determining a sequence order for vehicles in one or more image frames from an operational video, the operational video acquired from a fixed video camera comprising a field of view associated with a vehicle merge area where upstream traffic from a first lane and upstream traffic from a second lane merge to a single lane. The method can include obtaining operational video from a fixed video camera; detecting, within a region of interest (ROI) of the one or more image frames from the operational video, a first area and a second area in the vehicle merge area using a trained classifier that is trained to detect the first area and the second area; and determining the sequence order of the vehicles based on the first area and the second area that are detected. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054958 | VEHICLE SAFETY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD USING CAMERAS - A vehicle safety control apparatus using cameras includes a first camera configured to photograph a current object at at least one of a narrow angle and a straight angle during running, a second camera configured to photograph the current object at a wide angle during the running, an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on first current object image data captured by the first camera and second current object image data captured by the second camera, a recognition unit configured to recognize the first and second current object image data on which the image processing unit has performed the image processing, a storage unit configured to cause the recognized data to match preset reference object-specific data and separately store the data matching the preset reference object-specific data; and a control unit configured to receive the recognized data and deliver a storage command to the storage unit. | 02-26-2015 |
20150097957 | TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - A traffic surveillance system adapted to track and register vehicles passing a surveillance zone is described herein. The system comprises a carrying structure and a traffic surveillance device that is adapted to be mounted upon the carrying structure and comprises at least a vehicle identity registration device and a vehicle tracking device. The surveillance zone comprises gateway zones and at least one interconnecting zone. The interconnecting zone connects at least two gateway zones with each other. The vehicle identity registration device is arranged such upon the carrying structure that it defines the gateway zones in that it is adapted to record a passage of a vehicle into or out from the surveillance zone through the gateway zones and the vehicle tracking device is arranged such upon the carrying structure that it defines an essentially arc shaped interconnecting zone. | 04-09-2015 |
20150124099 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND TRACKING A VEHICLE OF INTEREST UTILIZING A NETWORK OF TRAFFIC IMAGE-CAPTURING UNITS - Methods and systems for detecting a vehicle of interest utilizing one or more traffic image-capturing units and a centralized server. A request from an authority to detect a vehicle of interest with respect to an incident can be verified based on particular criteria. One or more of the image-capturing units can be selected along with location information stored in a database in order to enable a search. A notification can be sent to the authority upon identification of the vehicle of interest by the image-capturing unit(s). An area or radius of search can be calculated to alert one or more other image-capturing units for use in tracking the vehicle of interest. Data regarding the vehicle of interest can then be transmitted to an incident management module to dynamically update details regarding detection of the vehicle of interest. | 05-07-2015 |
20150146001 | Entrance and Exit Ramp Safety System - A traffic safety system is provided for controlling the entry of motorists onto one way roads. The system has a motion detection unit which identifies the presence of motor vehicles travelling the wrong direction on one way roads, highway exit ramps and entrance ramps. Upon detection of a vehicle, the system activates audible and visual warnings. If the motorist does not stop moving, a barrier will deploy and a camera unit will photograph the license plate of the vehicle before transmitting same to local authorities. Additionally, a set of warming indicators positioned at a far end of the road are provided, which illuminate when the system is deployed, notifying travelers of a road blockage. | 05-28-2015 |
20150307108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POTENTIAL ACCIDENT SITUATIONS WITH A CAR - A method is disclosed for detecting potential accident situations with a vehicle driven by a driver. In an embodiment, the method includes collecting behaviour data of the vehicle by sensors located in the vehicle; obtaining a position of the vehicle; transmitting the behaviour data and the position of the vehicle to a control centre; selecting at least one traffic monitoring camera based on the position of the vehicle; acquiring images by the traffic monitoring camera, the images including the vehicle; transmitting the images to the control centre; analysing the behaviour data for detecting a driver's abnormal condition; analysing the images for detecting an abnormal condition of the vehicle; and if the two analyses detect an abnormal condition, registering the vehicle in a probable accident list. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317841 | FARE EVASION DETECTION USING VIDEO ANALYTICS - Systems and techniques are presented for detecting fare evasion at a paid entry gate. A video feed is received from a video camera aimed at an area that includes the paid entry gate. The video feed is analyzed to detect a specific event. Fare collection data is received from a fare collection device. The fare collection device is located at the paid entry gate and configured to collect fare for passage through the paid entry gate. A determination is made that a proper fare has not been collected for the specific event based on the fare collection data. An alert is generated indicating that fare evasion is detected in response to determining that the proper fare has not been collected for the specific event. | 11-05-2015 |
20150325120 | VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a vehicle, which senses a speed of the vehicle using a speed sensor unit and also senses a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the vehicle and a first vehicle immediately ahead of the vehicle using a distance sensor unit and then determines a state of the vehicle based on the speed of the vehicle and the vehicle-to-vehicle distance. In this case, when the vehicle is in a first state, the vehicle displays a first image captured by a first camera unit on a first display unit. In addition, when the vehicle is in a second state, the vehicle displays a second image captured by a second camera unit on the first display unit. Here, the second camera unit is a camera unit stalled in a second vehicle, and the second vehicle being any one of one or more vehicles ahead of the vehicle. | 11-12-2015 |
20150332103 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND PROCESSING METHOD - A processing apparatus includes a navigator, an environment detector, and a controller. The navigator displays a route between desired geographical locations on a display unit. The environment detector detects a surrounding environment of equipment provided with the display unit. The controller controls the navigator to cause the navigator to search again for and display another route between the desired geographical locations, in accordance with the detected surrounding environment. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332588 | SHORT-TIME STOPPING DETECTION FROM RED LIGHT CAMERA EVIDENTIARY PHOTOS - A method for detecting a vehicle running a stop signal includes acquiring at least two evidentiary images of a candidate violating vehicle captured from at least one camera monitoring an intersection. The method includes extracting feature points in each of the at least two evidentiary images. The method includes computing feature descriptors for each of the extracted feature points. The method includes determining a correspondence between feature points having matching feature descriptors at different locations in the at least two evidentiary images. The method includes extracting at least one attribute for each correspondence. The method includes determining if the candidate violating vehicle is in violation of running the stop signal using the extracted attribute. | 11-19-2015 |
20150348411 | INFORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA ANALYZING APPARATUS, SIGNAL, SERVER, INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SIGNAL CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information control apparatus including a determination unit that determines at least an attribute of an object to be analyzed on the basis of captured image data acquired by an imaging apparatus fixed to a signal and that generates determination result information. The information control apparatus further includes a surrounding information generating unit that generates a surrounding information table of the signal which corresponds to the determination result information, a data analyzing unit that generates analysis result information on the basis of the surrounding information table generated by the surrounding information generating unit, and an output unit that outputs the analysis result information to an external apparatus. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365632 | VIDEO SHARING SYSTEM FOR ROAD USERS - A traffic surveillance and guidance system comprising a traffic server system is disclosed. The traffic server is configured to receive and update and record data of geographical positions of registered road users, and wherein each registered road user is registering a replaceable and modifiable geometrically shaped model of a field of view representing the respective road users observation space and observation ability of possible traffic incidents around geographical positions the respective road users are located on at any time. | 12-17-2015 |
20160004915 | Lane Level Traffic - Lane level traffic levels are determined based on traffic camera images. A controller aligns a three-dimensional map with a traffic camera view, and identifies multiple lanes in the traffic camera view based on lane delineations of the three-dimensional map. The controller calculates a traffic parameter based on the multiple lanes in image frames from the traffic camera view and provides a traffic graphic based on the traffic parameter. | 01-07-2016 |
20160057335 | CROWD SOURCING EXTERIOR VEHICLE IMAGES OF TRAFFIC CONDITIONS - An apparatus and method for crowd sourcing current traffic conditions using an image sensor on a vehicle to record traffic conditions at the vehicle location, date and time stamp the images, and transmit the images along with selected vehicle operating conditions and vehicle coordinates through a network to a central crowd sourcing traffic condition control. The control stores the images and, upon receiving an image request from a vehicle, transmits traffic condition images to the requesting vehicle through the network for a specified roadway segment. A vehicle opted-in to the control can select another opted-in vehicle to have an image taken by the any selected vehicle of a desired road location. The control handles the exchange of a request and an image between the requesting vehicle and the selecting vehicle to enable an instantaneous image of a desired road location to be displayed in the requesting vehicle. | 02-25-2016 |
20160110999 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PARKING MONITORING WITH VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION - A system and method for monitoring parking and identifying vehicles by monitoring a parking region based on video data of the parking region received from a video camera, detecting a parking event associated with a vehicle in the parking region, adjusting a view of the video camera based on the parking event, physically tracking the vehicle using the video camera, capturing an image of a license plate of the vehicle, and resuming monitoring the parking region after capturing the image of the license plate. | 04-21-2016 |
20160140400 | ATOMIC SCENES FOR SCALABLE TRAFFIC SCENE RECOGNITION IN MONOCULAR VIDEOS - Systems and methods are disclosed to provide an Advanced Warning System (AWS) for a driver of a vehicle, by capturing traffic scene types from a single camera video; generating real-time monocular SFM and 2D object detection from the single camera video; detecting a ground plane from the real-time monocular SFM and the 2D object detection; performing dense 3D estimation from the real-time monocular SFM and the 2D object detection; generating a joint 3D object localization from the ground plane and dense 3D estimation; and communicating a situation that requires caution to the driver. | 05-19-2016 |
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20160381325 | System and Method For Improved Updating And Annunciation Of Traffic Enforcement Camera Information In A Vehicle Using A Broadcast Content Delivery Service - An enhanced broadcast data service with reports locations of traffic enforcement camera locations e.g., red light cameras and speed cameras) to users. Traffic enforcement camera information is aggregated, verified (e.g., particularly as to traffic enforcement camera type) and stored (e.g., at a server). A broadcast signal comprising program channels and at least one data channel having traffic enforcement camera information is transmitted to a plurality of receivers. Receivers store at least a subset of the traffic enforcement camera information available from the server and synchronize to it using periodic transmitted updates. Receivers compare receiver location data with stored camera location data, and display or generate audible alerts when the receiver is within a Selected geographic range of a traffic enforcement camera. Alerts can be filtered as to camera type. A alerts can employ different color camera icons superimposed on a screen map depending on camera type or whether the camera is newly added. | 12-29-2016 |