Method and device for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle

• US 10,229,588 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2015
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Che, Jun, Wang, Chao, Cai, Weiwei, Pu, Shiliang
• Primary Examiner(s): McCormack, Thomas S
• Application Number:
  US15/516,795
• Publication Number:
  US 20180268687A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,184 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/54 of traffic, e.g. cars on the road, trains or boats
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/625 License plates
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

The present application relates to the field of monitoring, and discloses a method and a device for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle. In the method for obtaining evidences of the present application, a correspondence relationship between shooting positioning parameters of a first camera and a second camera is preset. The method for obtaining evidences comprises: taking a first photo of an illegally parked vehicle using the first camera and obtaining a current first shooting positioning parameter of the first camera; according to the correspondence relationship, calculating a second shooting positioning parameter of the second camera corresponding to the first shooting positioning parameter and controlling the second camera to take a second photo with the second shooting positioning parameter. Thereby the photos of the head and rear of the illegally parked vehicle are obtained simultaneously as the evidences for illegal parking for penalty.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle, wherein, a correspondence relationship between shooting positioning parameters of a first camera and a second camera is preset, the method comprises following steps;

taking a first photo of an illegally parked vehicle using the first camera and obtaining a current first shooting positioning parameter of the first camera;

calculating a second shooting positioning parameter of the second camera corresponding to the first shooting positioning parameter according to the correspondence relationship, and controlling the second camera to take a second photo with the second shooting positioning parameter, wherein the first photo is a photo of a vehicle head and the second photo is a photo of a vehicle rear, or the first photo is a photo of a vehicle rear and the second photo is a photo of a vehicle head;

determining whether the vehicle for which the first photo is taken and the vehicle for which the second photo is taken are the same one by an image analysis technique; and

if the vehicle for which the first photo is taken and the vehicle for which the second photo is taken are the same one, storing the first photo and the second photo as evidences for illegal parking.

2. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, after taking a first photo of an illegally parked vehicle using the first camera, the method further comprises following steps:

if resolution of a license plate in the first photo is lower than a first predetermined threshold, adjusting focal distance of the first camera and taking, with the first shooting positioning parameter, a third photo in which resolution of a license plate is greater than that in the first photo.

3. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, after controlling the second camera to take a second photo with the second shooting positioning parameter, the method further comprises following steps:

if resolution of a license plate in the second photo is lower than a second predetermined threshold, adjusting focal distance of the second camera and taking, with the second shooting positioning parameter, a fourth photo in which resolution of a license plate is greater than that in the second photo.

4. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, the step of storing the first photo and the second photo as evidences for illegal parking comprises following a sub-step:

obtaining a license plate number and cab features from the first photo or the second photo based on the image analysis technique;

wherein the evidences for illegal parking comprises;

the first photo, the second photo, the license plate number and the cab features.

5. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

8. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

9. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

10. The method for obtaining evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle according to claim 4, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first era and the second camera is as follows:

6. A non-transitory storage medium, wherein the storage medium is configured to store an application to obtain evidences for illegal parking of a vehicle,

wherein the application is executed to preset a correspondence relationship between shooting positioning parameters of a first camera and a second camera;

control the first camera to take a first photo of an illegally parked vehicle and obtain a current first shooting positioning parameter of the first camera;

calculate a second shooting positioning parameter of the second camera corresponding to the first shooting positioning parameter according to the correspondence relationship, and control the second camera to take a second photo with the second shooting positioning parameter, wherein the first photo is a photo of a vehicle head and the second photo is a photo of a vehicle rear, or the first photo is a photo of a vehicle rear and the second photo is a photo of a vehicle head;

determine whether the vehicle for which the first photo is taken and the vehicle for which the second photo is taken are the same one by an image analysis technique; and

store the first photo and the second photo as evidences for illegal parking when determining result of the third determining unit is true.

11. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 6,

wherein after taking a first photo of an illegally parked vehicle using the first camera, the application is executed to:

if resolution of a license plate in the first photo is lower than a first predetermined threshold, adjust focal distance of the first camera and taking, with the first shooting positioning parameter, a third photo in which resolution of a license plate is greater than that in the first photo.

12. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 6,

wherein after controlling the second camera to take a second photo with the second shooting positioning parameter, the application is executed to:

adjust focal distance of the second camera and taking, with the second shooting positioning parameter, a fourth photo in which resolution of a license plate is greater than that in the second photo, if resolution of a license plate in the second photo is lower than a second predetermined threshold.

13. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 6,

wherein the application is executed to obtain a license plate number and cab features from the first photo or the second photo based on the image analysis technique;

wherein the evidences for illegal parking comprises;

the first photo, the second photo, the license plate number and the cab features.

14. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 6, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

15. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

16. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 12, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

17. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13, wherein, the correspondence relationship between the shooting positioning parameters of the first camera and the second camera is as follows:

7. An evidence obtaining system, comprising;

a first camera and a second camera, wherein the first camera is configured to take a first photo of an illegally parked vehicle, the evidence obtaining system further comprises;

a processor, a memory, communication interfaces and a bus,

wherein

the processor, the memory and the communication interfaces connect to and communicate with each other via the bus;

the memory is configured to store executable program codes;

the processor is configured to execute programs corresponding to the executable program codes by reading the executable program codes stored in the memory to perform;

obtaining a current first shooting positioning parameter of the first camera;

calculating a second shooting positioning parameter of the second camera corresponding to the first shooting positioning parameter according to the correspondence relationship and controlling the second camera to take a second photo with the second shooting positioning parameter, wherein the first photo is a photo of a vehicle head and the second photo is a photo of a vehicle rear, or the first photo is a photo of a vehicle rear and the second photo is a photo of a vehicle head;

determining whether the vehicle for which the first photo is taken and the vehicle for which the second photo is taken are the same one by an image analysis technique; and

if the vehicle for which the first photo is taken and the vehicle for which the second photo is taken are the same one, storing the first photo and the second photo as evidences for illegal parking.