Move over slow drivers cell phone technology

• US 10,217,354 B1
• Filed: 04/09/2018
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bertram V. Burke, Michaela C. Burke
• Original Assignee: Bertram V. Burke, Michaela C. Burke
• Inventors: Burke, Bertram V, Burke, Michaela C
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Truc M
• Application Number:
  US15/948,998
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A cell phone method and system for logging and reporting on slow drivers in fast and middle lanes is disclosed. The system detects a slow vehicle in front and/or side of an automobile based on speed data from an GPS system, detects passing of the slow vehicle on the left side of the automobile using a camera and stores global position data of the automobile using a GPS system, and transmits the speed data, the images of the rear and/or side of the slow vehicle and the global position data that was taken and stored to the third party via the communications network, using the transmitter.

Claims

1. A computing system on a reporting vehicle for logging and reporting on slow drivers in a lane, the system comprising of a set of the following:

a camera configured for capturing images of a license plate of a slow vehicle in front and/or side of the reporting vehicle;

a global positioning system (GPS) system for recording global positioning data;

a transmitter configured for wirelessly transmitting information to a third party via a communications network; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the camera and the GPS feed, wherein the processor is configured for;

a) detecting the slow vehicle in front and/or side of the reporting vehicle based on the speed data from the GPS feed;

b) taking and storing images of a rear and/or side of the slow vehicle using the camera;

c) detecting passing of the slow vehicle on the left side of the reporting vehicle using the camera;

d) taking and storing global position data of the reporting vehicle using the GPS system; and

e) transmitting the speed data, the images of the rear and/or side of the slow vehicle and the global position data that was taken and stored to the third party via the communications network, using the transmitter.

2. The system in claim 1, comprise a global navigation satellite system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing system resides on a smart phone.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured for transmitting the speed data, the images of the rear and/or side of the slow vehicle and the global position data that was taken and stored to the reporting vehicle via the communications network, using the transmitter.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured for transmitting certain ones of a set of pre-recorded messages or other signals to the slow vehicle.

6. A computing system on a reporting vehicle for logging and reporting on slow drivers in a lane, the system comprising of a set of the following:

a camera configured for capturing images of a license plate of a slow vehicle in front and/or side of the reporting vehicle;

a GPS system on the reporting vehicle for recording global positioning data;

a transmitter configured for wirelessly transmitting information to a third party via a communications network; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the camera and the GPS system, wherein the processor is configured for;

a) detecting the slow vehicle in front and/or side of the reporting vehicle based on the speed data from the GPS feed;

b) taking and storing images of a rear of the slow vehicle using the camera;

c) detecting passing of the slow vehicle on the right side of the reporting vehicle using the camera;

d) taking and storing global position data of the reporting vehicle using the GPS system; and

e) transmitting the speed data, the images of the rear and/or side of the slow vehicle and the global position data that was taken and stored to the third party via the communications network, using the transmitter.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said set comprise global navigation satellite system-based sensors.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the computing system resides on a smart phone.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured for transmitting the speed data, the images of the rear and/or side of the slow vehicle, and the global position data that was taken and stored to the slow vehicle via the communications network, using the transmitter.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured for transmitting certain ones of a set of pre-recorded messages or other signals to the slow vehicle.