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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105252 | Wireless traffic sensor system Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless traffic sensor system. The system includes a plurality of wireless traffic sensors collecting traffic information from one or more vehicles that pass by; and at least one wireless communication device that receives... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110309950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC CONDITION DETECTION Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for vehicle speed acquisition and citation. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, multiple different imaging systems can be placed individually at different l... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110273311 | Photographic multiple vehicular traffic ticket issuance and monitoring system A photographic traffic ticket issuance system or an automatic traffic ticket issuance system, preferably used within a police vehicle; the police vehicle, either mobile or stationary, is preferably used with a photographic device. The system includes a processing system... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267205 | System and Method for Monitoring and Updating Speed-By-Street Data System and method for identifying speeding violations, comprising determining a current speed and a current location of a vehicle, determining a posted speed limit for the current location from a speed-by-street database, comparing the current speed of the vehicle to th... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110133952 | Devices, Systems and Methods for Detecting a Traffic Infraction Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for identifying a driver within a vehicle using short range wireless communication in order to ticket or alert the driver in response to a traffic infraction by the driver. In exemplary embodiments, a short range wireless comm... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110091079 | FACIAL IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE A facial image recognition system for a driver of a vehicle includes an image capturing unit, an image processing unit, and a warning unit. The image capturing unit is used for capturing facial images of the driver. The image processing unit is electrically coupled to t... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110080306 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE DIRECTION, SPEED AND/OR DISTANCE OF VEHICLES The invention relates to the determination of direction, speed and/or distance of vehicles on a roadway by means of a sensor, which operates according to the light-section procedure and is directed onto the roadway, for recording the surface contour of a vehicle, and an... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110032120 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFRACTION DETECTION BASED ON VEHICLE TRAFFIC FLOW DATA Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for vehicle speed acquisition and citation. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, multiple different imaging systems can be placed individually at different l... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110001635 | MOBILE TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM A method (400) and a system (125) for monitoring traffic. A warning zone (130) can be defined based, at least in part, on a present location of a mobile traffic monitoring system (125). With the mobile traffic monitoring system, the warning z... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100253544 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRAFFIC INFORMATION A system for providing traffic information to a plurality of mobile users connected to a network. The system comprises a plurality of traffic monitors, each comprising at least a traffic detector and a transmitter, the traffic detector generating a signal in response to... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100201545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING COMPARATIVE VEHICLE SPEED AND DIRECTION A system for monitoring and reporting comparative vehicle speed includes at least one vehicle having a device installed therein, wherein the device includes a transceiver for communicating within a network to one or more monitoring clients, a location receiver for deter... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100194596 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE A display apparatus for a vehicle includes: a shooting element for shooting a predetermined area around the vehicle to obtain a shot image around the vehicle; an image conversion element for converting coordinates of the shot image to generate a mirror conversion image,... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100176921 | DETERMINING SPEEDS OF RADIO FREQUENCY TAGS The present disclosure is directed to determining speeds of radio frequency tags. In some implementations, a method includes sampling a Radio Frequency (RF) signal from an RFID tag at a plurality of different times as the RFID tag approaches an RFID reader and recedes f... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100141479 | DETECTING TARGETS IN ROADWAY INTERSECTIONS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting targets in roadway intersections. Transmit antennas transmit signals into a roadway intersection. Receive antennas receive corresponding signal reflections off objects in the ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100117865 | Method and System for Collecting Traffice Data, Monitoring Traffic, and Automated Enforcement at a Centralized Station A distributed individual vehicle information capture method for capturing individual vehicle data at traffic intersections and transmitting the data to a central station for storage and processing is provided. The method includes capturing individual vehicle information... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100117864 | Vehicle identification and speed detection method and system A system and method to provide traffic surveillance and more specifically, the detection and identification of vehicles whose average speed exceeds a legal limit anywhere for an extended part of the roadway by means of detection of the time difference between passing by... | 05/13/2010 |
| 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 o... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100109918 | DEVICES FOR USE BY DEAF AND/OR BLIND PEOPLE A device for use by a deafblind person is disclosed. The device comprises a first key for manually inputting a series of words in the form of a code, a second key for manually inputting an action to be performed by the device, a third key for manually inputting a user p... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100039293 | LOCALISATION OF VEHICLE OR MOBILE OBJECTS BASED ON EMBEDDED RFID TAGS An RFID system for determining the location of a vehicle or mobile object that passes thereover is presented. The system comprises a tag arrangement having at least one tag where the arrangement having a width of between approximately 0.5 m and 2 m.... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100019937 | OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, SHIELD PLATE, COMPUTER PRODUCT, TRANSIT SUPPORT METHOD, AND TRANSIT SUPPORT APPARATUS An optical receiving apparatus is provided on a mobile object and includes a receiving unit that receives an optical signal transmitted from a transmitting unit of a communication device disposed apart from the mobile object; and a blocking unit that blocks the optical ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100013671 | Lighting apparatus with integrated warning equipment and data collection equipment A lighting apparatus including an external case (12) containing a lighting source (13), warning equipment (18) and data collection equipment (19), the warning equipment and data collection equipment being situated at least partly inside the a... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100013672 | PHOTOGRAPHIC MULTIPLE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC TICKET ISSUANCE SYSTEM A photographic traffic ticket issuance system or an automatic traffic ticket issuance system, preferably used within a police vehicle; the police vehicle, either mobile or stationary, is preferably used with a photographic device. The system includes a processing system... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090309757 | REAL TIME TRAFFIC AIDE A system and method for providing real-time traffic information using a wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communications network. A vehicle includes a plurality of sensors that detect other vehicles around the vehicle. The wireless communications system on the vehicle uses th... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090237271 | DEVICE FOR PREVENTION OF SPEEDING, AND METHOD THEREOF A standalone vehicle speed detecting device that is portable and transportable, that creates the illusion of a police car when viewed by a vehicle driver, and that reacts to the detection of a speeding vehicle in a manner that simulates initial law enforcement vehicle e... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090224944 | Vehicle collision avoidance and warning system The present invention relates to an automatic vehicle collision avoidance and warning system for rear vehicles which comprises a radar sensor device, speed sensor device, main control module and an assistive brake light illumination, wherein the radar sensor device is l... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090184844 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A VEHICLE PASSING BY IN THE DARK A device for detecting a vehicle passing by a vehicle in the dark. A camera detects a light cone that is moving at a lateral offset relative to the vehicle. An analyzer device assigns the relatively moving light cone to the passing vehicle.... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090167566 | Method of Detecting and Documenting Traffic Violations, Such as Red Light Violations or Speeding Violations According to the present invention, a first measured data packet M1 of a first vehicle 1 at a first measuring time point tM1 and a first image data packet B1 are generated, and measured data packets MX of additional veh... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090146845 | ELECTRONIC TOLL MANAGEMENT Electronic toll management includes capturing an image of a vehicle triggered by a transaction event representing an interaction between the vehicle and a facility, determining a vehicle identifier based on the captured image, checking whether the vehicle identifier mat... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090146844 | SpeedSense, an Intelligent Electronic Top Speed Control Automotive Safety Device An electronic automotive speed control safety device, which limits the maximum speed (Top Speed) allowed of any vehicle, in real time, based on the road it is traveling on. Combining the current GPS navigation technology and the electronic speed limiter technology, this... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090140882 | DYNAMIC SPEED LIMIT SYSTEM A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided in which the presence of workers in a long highway construction zone is monitored and the electronically-controlled posted speed limit is adjusted in accordance with the detected presence of workers in the... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143971 | Apparatus and method for conveying traffic congestion data to a user A method of displaying traffic information, comprising: providing a graphical interface to display information related to traffic routes; displaying a first bar to represent a total distance of a first traffic route; and displaying segments of the first bar, each segmen... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140883 | Context sensitive speed tracking A method and apparatus for performing a context sensitive speed tracking by generating a location of the mobile tracking device; determining context information related to the location; and analyzing the location and context information to determine an appropriate speed... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090115633 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED WARNING DEVICE Methods and systems for automatically sounding a vehicle warning are provided. The method includes determining when the vehicle is within a predetermined distance to a warning area, and determining a speed of approach of the vehicle to the warning area. The method also ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090051568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL USING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for controlling traffic. A set of vehicles is monitored moving from one radio frequency identification tag sensor to another radio frequency identification tag sensor in a network of radio freque... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080266140 | System and Method For Speed Measurement Verification This invention provides for a system 20 for speed measurement verification. The system 20 includes measuring means configured to automatically measure the speed of a vehicle 32 travelling on a surface 36 which includes a marker 34 at a... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080252487 | System and method for monitoring and updating speed-by-street data System and method for identifying speeding violations, comprising determining a current speed and a current location of a vehicle, determining a posted speed limit for the current location from a speed-by-street database, comparing the current speed of the vehicle to th... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080180281 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VEHICULAR TRAFFIC FLOW A novel vehicular traffic management system that requires no special equipment in any vehicle is disclosed. More specifically, the novel system may be used when approaching a lane closure or lane reduction. The system comprises sequencing signaling devices along the roa... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080150761 | TELEMATIC PARAMETRIC SPEED METERING SYSTEM Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, articles of manufacture and methods for a telematic parametric speed metering system. In one embodiment, a system may determine a vehicle's location and speed. Once the location has been determined, corresponding geo... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080143556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFLUENCING THE TRAFFIC FLOW WITHIN A ROUTE SECTION A method for influencing the traffic flow of vehicles within a route section (10) in which the actual speed of a first vehicle travelling within the route section (10) is measured, at an actual speed which is the same as or higher than a predefined limitin... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080129546 | MONOPULSE TRAFFIC SENSOR AND METHOD A method and system for determining a position of a vehicle within a field of view using a traffic sensor are provided. This involves (a) mounting the traffic sensor at a fixed location relative to a road; (b) modulating a microwave signal to produce a periodic time-var... | 06/05/2008 |
