Vehicle surveillance system, vehicle surveillance method, and program

• US 10,157,541 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Okazaki, Takuma, Fukase, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): SAMSON, SARA B
• Application Number:
  US15/512,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20170278389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,561 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/054 photographing overspeeding vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/137 the indicator being in the form of a map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

A vehicle surveillance system includes: a photographing unit configured to photograph a target vehicle; a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a position of the photographing unit; a surveillance information generation unit configured to extract a vehicle number from an image acquired by the photographing unit and generate surveillance information on the basis of at least the vehicle number and the positional information; and a surveillance information output unit configured to output the surveillance information generated by the surveillance information generation unit. The photographing unit, the positional information acquiring unit, the surveillance information generation unit, and the surveillance information output unit are installed in a mobile surveillance vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle surveillance system, comprising:

a photographing unit configured to photograph a target vehicle;

a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a position of the photographing unit;

a surveillance information generation unit configured to extract a vehicle number from an image acquired by the photographing unit and generate surveillance information on the basis of at least the vehicle number and the positional information;

a surveillance information output unit configured to output the surveillance information generated by the surveillance information generation unit; and

a violating vehicle identification unit configured to identify a violating vehicle on the basis of the surveillance information and information on charging from an on-board unit of the target vehicle,

wherein the photographing unit, the positional information acquiring unit, the surveillance information generation unit, and the surveillance information output unit are installed in a mobile surveillance vehicle,

wherein the positional information acquisition unit is configured to acquire the positional information of the mobile surveillance vehicle, and

wherein the violating vehicle identification unit determines that the target vehicle is the violating vehicle, in a newest ignition state of the target vehicle is an OFF state, when a position of the target vehicle when the ignition state is switched to the OFF state and a position of the target vehicle included in a newest surveillance information do not match each other.

2. The vehicle surveillance system according to claim 1, wherein the violating vehicle identification unit identifies the violating vehicle on the basis of surveillance information including positional information which is included in an actual surveillance area inside a predetermined charging area among multiple pieces of the surveillance information.

3. The vehicle surveillance system according to claim 1, wherein the violating vehicle identification unit determines that the target vehicle is the violating vehicle when the newest ignition state of the target vehicle is an ON state and charging processing has not been performed within a predetermined period.

4. The vehicle surveillance system according to claim 1, wherein the violating vehicle identification unit identifies the violating vehicle on the basis of information on charging of the charging processing and the surveillance information when the charging processing is performed before acquiring the surveillance information in a charging area in which the surveillance information is acquired.

5. The vehicle surveillance system according to claim 1, further comprising a surveillance timing control unit configured to:

instruct the photographing unit to start photographing when it is determined that the surveillance vehicle has moved a predetermined distance or more or a predetermined time or more into the predetermined charging area from a boundary part of the charging area on the basis of the positional information; and

instruct the photographing unit to end photographing when it is determined that the surveillance vehicle in the charging area has approached the boundary part on the basis of the positional information.

6. The vehicle surveillance system according to claim 1, wherein the positional information acquisition unit acquires positional information which is generated on the basis of a signal received from a satellite.

7. A vehicle surveillance method which is performed by a vehicle surveillance system installed in a mobile surveillance vehicle, the vehicle surveillance method comprising:

a photographing step of photographing a target vehicle;

a positional information acquisition step of acquiring positional information indicating a position at which the target vehicle is photographed;

a surveillance information generation step of extracting a vehicle number from an image acquired in the photographing step and generating surveillance information on the basis of at least the vehicle number and the positional information;

a surveillance information output step of outputting the surveillance information generated in the surveillance information generation step; and

a step of identifying a violating vehicle on the basis of the surveillance information and information on charging from an on-board unit of the target vehicle,

wherein the step of identifying the violating vehicle comprises;

determining that the target vehicle is the violating vehicle, in a newest ignition state of the target vehicle is an OFF state, when a position of the target vehicle when the ignition state is switched to the OFF state and a position of the target vehicle included in a newest surveillance information do not match each other.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform method steps, the method steps comprising:

a photographing step of photographing a target vehicle;

a positional information acquisition step of acquiring positional information indicating a position at which the target vehicle is photographed;

a surveillance information generation step of extracting a vehicle number from an image acquired in the photographing step and generating surveillance information on the basis of at least the vehicle number and the positional information;

a surveillance information output step of outputting the surveillance information generated in the surveillance information generation step; and

a step of identifying a violating vehicle on the basis of the surveillance information and information on charging from an on-board unit of the target vehicle,

wherein the step of identifying the violating vehicle comprises;

determining that the target vehicle is the violating vehicle, in a newest ignition state of the target vehicle is an OFF state, when a position of the target vehicle when the ignition state is switched to the OFF state and a position of the target vehicle included in a newest surveillance information do not match each other.