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| 20110234749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND RECORDING TRAFFIC LAW VIOLATION EVENTS A system for detecting and recording real-time law violations having an array of wide and narrow angled cameras providing a plurality of images of a substantially 360° field of view around a law enforcement unit, a recording unit for recording said images, an analyzing... | 09/29/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110084855 | Autonomous Wide-Angle License Plate Recognition A system in a moving surveillance vehicle operates in background mode to capture images of license plates of neighboring moving vehicles, which may occupy lanes other than the lane in which the surveillance vehicle is moving. The images are used to determine the license... | 04/14/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110080307 | Device and Method for Detecting Wheel Axles The invention relates to the detection of wheel axles of a vehicle on a roadway by means of a sensor, which operates according to the light-section procedure and emits at least one fan of light from a first location along the roadway to project a line of light onto the ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110080092 | VEHICLE HEADLAMP A vehicle headlamp includes: a light-emitting module; a control circuit section for controlling a lighting of the light-emitting module; and a reflector including a reflecting face configured to reflect and collect light emitted from the light-emitting module. The contr... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110057816 | SECURITY SYSTEMS A vehicle detection system for detecting the presence of at least part of a vehicle in image data, the system comprising: an interface configured to receive image data; an identifier module configured to identify a plurality of linear regions in an image represented by ... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110043381 | MOBILE AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR TRAFIC MONITORING An autonomous system for automated monitoring of traffic patterns on at least one designated surface including at least one mobile monitoring and recording module. The at least one mobile monitoring and recording module includes at least one support and stabilization se... | 02/24/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20100295705 | METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN REFLECTORS ARRANGED ON THE ROADSIDE AND VEHICLE LIGHTS IN THE DARK A method and a device for distinguishing between reflectors arranged on the roadside and vehicle lights and for identifying said reflectors and vehicle lights for use in an automatic light control system in a vehicle with a camera sensor oriented towards the surrounding... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100194597 | VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE WASHING The invention is directed towards an automated system for tracking a vehicle, associating that vehicle with a vehicle washing selection, and tracking the vehicle until it enters the vehicle washing station for subsequent presentation of the vehicle washing selection to ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100128931 | AUTOMATED SECURITY GATE ATTENDANT An automated security attendant for a mechanical gate includes an interface that queries a visitor as to the name and destination of the visitor, and then automatically proceeds with authentication of the visitor. The system includes cameras and recording equipment for ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20100091513 | Vehicle detection apparatus, vehicle detection program and light control apparatus A vehicle detection apparatus detects oncoming vehicles, and the illumination angle of the headlight is changed downwardly when oncoming vehicles are detected. When detecting the oncoming vehicles, the vehicle detection apparatus detects brightness or area for the every... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100066563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE MOUNTED INFRARED WAVELENGTH INFORMATION DISPLAYS FOR TRAFFIC CAMERA VIEWERS Systems and methods for vehicle mounted infrared wavelength information displays for traffic camera viewers are disclosed. A method includes obtaining vehicle positioning data associated with at least one vehicle and, based upon the vehicle positioning data, selectively... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100061594 | DETECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLE LIGHTS WITH A CAMERA A method for detecting front headlights and tail lights of a motor vehicle with a colour camera sensor is presented. The colour camera sensor comprises a plurality of red pixels, i.e. image points which are only sensitive in the red spectral range, and a plurality of pi... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100060487 | Motor Vehicle A motor vehicle has an imaging device for generating an image of a radiation pattern on the terrain surrounding the motor vehicle. A detecting device is provided for the multiple sequential detection of images of the radiation patterns that are influenced by the terrain... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100057361 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STOCHASTICALLY PREDICTING THE FUTURE STATES OF A VEHICLE A method for predicting future states of a vehicle including the steps of selecting a model having n states reflecting dynamic features of the vehicle; inputting noisy sensor measurements representing a current state of the vehicle to generate (2n+1) sigma points X... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100001880 | DETECTING AND SHARING ROAD TRAFFIC CONDITION INFORMATION A method, system, and computer usable program product for detecting and sharing road traffic condition information are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A system receives a set of image inputs from a set of cameras that are stationary relative to a road and moni... | 01/07/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20090219172 | Method and Device for the Multi-Technology Detection of Vehicles Method of detecting vehicles on at least one stretch of a carriageway implementing at least two types of detection chosen from:
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| 20090207046 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING VEHICLES A system to detect the transit of vehicles having license plates includes at least one video camera to detect license plates capable of framing the plates of said vehicles and, preferably, at least one video camera to detect vehicles capable of framing a zone of transit... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090189783 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing device for performing a process of measuring a distance to a predetermined object using an image imaged by an imaging device attached to a vehicle which moves has a movement detection unit for detecting that the vehicle moved a constant amount from a... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090184845 | Vehicle Detecting System A vehicle detecting system includes image taking means for taking an image of the surroundings of a subject vehicle, vehicle detecting means for detecting a vehicle from the taken image, and lateral-position detecting means for detecting a lateral position of the vehicl... | 07/23/2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20090128365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING REAL-TIME TRAFFIC VIDEO TO A HANDHELD DEVICE A system and methods for viewing real time traffic video on a handheld device are shown and described. The method includes requesting by a handheld device, data from a remote traffic camera responsive to user input through a menu-driven interface of an application progr... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090085775 | Vehicle Detection Apparatus Disclosed herein is a vehicle detection apparatus has a first and a second sensors to detect vehicles ahead of the host vehicle, and a judgment part to judge that, in the case where the second sensor detects an object which the first sensor has detected, the object is a... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090073000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALERTING ABOUT DRIVING STATE OF VEHICLE A method and apparatus for alerting a driving state of a vehicle is provided. The method of alerting about a driving state of a vehicle includes: identifying an adjacent vehicle from a photographed image and extracting identification information about the adjacent vehic... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090069973 | WARNING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DEVIATION OF A MOVING VEHICLE A warning method for deviation of a moving vehicle and the device of the same uses a video camera to continuously capture road images behind the vehicle and generates a video signal. A graphics processor analyzes a static background of the road based on the video signal... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090040069 | Image Processing for a Traffic Control System Embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses relation to traffic control systems. In one embodiment, a traffic condition is identified by capturing a traffic image, masking the traffic image to obtain an image portion including a traffic image object, an... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090033517 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR MOSAICS OF LIVE VIEWS OF TRAFFIC Systems, methods and computer products for mosaics of live views of traffic via Internet Protocol Television. Exemplary embodiments include a network-based method for providing traffic views, the method including receiving a request to display a traffic views mosaic on ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090021396 | Method and Device for Evaluating Distance Measuring Data of a Distance Measuring System of a Motor Vehicle The invention relates to a method for evaluating distance measuring data of a distance measuring system of a motor vehicle. A camera image (100) of the surroundings of a vehicle which is to be observed is received and distance measuring data from the same surroun... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080309517 | VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS MONITORING APPARATUS A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an image pickup means for taking an image of the surroundings of a vehicle, a preceding-vehicle detecting means for detecting a preceding vehicle from the taken image, a monitored-region setting means for setting pred... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080291056 | Method and apparatus for documenting the condition of a vehicle A method and apparatus that includes cameras encased in vandalism and weather resistant housings, which attach to the outside or inside of a tunnel. The cameras provide for overhead, side, front, and rear views of a vehicle as the vehicle approaches and enters the tunne... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080258937 | System for Use in Stations for Road Tolls The invention relates to a system for use with stations for road tolls, comprising a first optical apparatus for recording images of the roadway and a second apparatus for wireless communication with a vehicle apparatus. The height above the roadway and the angle in a l... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080252488 | Vehicle vision system A vehicular vision system includes at least one imaging sensor for sensing images of objects in a forward field of view of the imaging sensor. The imaging system includes a control responsive to an output of the imaging sensor. The control modulates at least one headlam... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080218383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARKING INFRACTION DETECTION The invention relates to a system and method for detecting parking infractions. It comprises computing one or more measurements associated with a stationary object found at a first location; classifying the stationary object as being representative of a vehicle parked a... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080211644 | DUAL MODE VEHICLE BLIND SPOT SYSTEM A proximity sensor system for a vehicle in reverse includes a zone detection module. The zone detection module switches a first remote sensor from a first mode corresponding to a near zone rearward of the vehicle to a second mode corresponding to a far zone rearward of ... | 09/04/2008 |
