Vessel traffic service system and method for extracting accident data

• US 10,255,367 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2015
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Byung Gil, Kim, Byung Doo, Kim, Do Hyeung, Cho, Kwan Tae, Kim, Ju Young, Choi, Joong Yong, Seo, Dae Hee, Oh, Seung Hee, Na, Jung Chan, Cho, Hyun Sook
• Primary Examiner(s): Chau, Dung K
• Application Number:
  US14/643,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20150261869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,491 Days
• Field of Search: 707710, 707728, 707740, 701 21
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/86 Combinations of radar systems with non-radar systems, e.g. sonar, direction finder
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/867 Combination of radar systems with cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/917 for marine craft or other waterborne vessels
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/002 for traffic control, mobile tracking, guidance, surveillance or anti-collision
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/12 Plan-position indicators, i.e. P.P.I.
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/16 Signals displayed as intensity modulation with rectangular co-ordinates representing distance and bearing, e.g. type B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/53 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vessel traffic service system and a method for extracting accident data, and more particularly, to a technique that search and extracts possible event traffic data automatically from data of a concerned area without knowing exact time when a marine accident occurs. The vessel traffic service system includes: an input unit receiving conditional information for extracting accident occurrence data from a user; a storage unit storing at least one of an automatic identification system (AIS) signal, a radar signal, and a camera image signal; and a control unit extracting an event occurrence part from at least one of the AIS signal, the radar signal, and the camera image signal of a point and a time at which an accident occurs in accordance with the conditional information to generate an accident candidate list.

Claims

1. A vessel traffic service system comprising:

an input unit receiving conditional information when a marine accident occurs from a user, and searching and extracting accident candidate data from the conditional information;

a storage unit storing at least one of an automatic identification system (AIS) signal, a radar signal, and a camera image signal; and

a control unit extracting an event occurrence part from at least one of the AIS signal, the radar signal, and the camera image signal of a point and a time at which an accident occurs in accordance with the conditional information to generate an accident candidate list,

wherein the conditional information includes information of a concerned area which is an accident occurrence point, a concerned time range which is an accident occurrence time range, and equipment to be searched that includes AIS, radar and camera systems, and

wherein in the receiving of data corresponding to the conditional information, a coordinate value is calculated for each of the equipment to be searched with respect to the concerned area.

2. The vessel traffic service system of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates and accumulates a difference image from the radar signal and records a case in which a vessel is displayed in the difference image to generate a radar accident candidate list.

3. The vessel traffic service system of claim 2, wherein the control unit generates and accumulates the difference image from the camera image signal and records the case in which a vessel is displayed in the difference image to generate a camera accident candidate list.

4. The vessel traffic service system of claim 3, wherein when a vessel coordinate which matches a latitude/longitude coordinate of the concerned area where the accident occurs is included in the AIS signal, the control unit records information on the corresponding vessel to generate an AIS accident candidate list.

5. The vessel traffic service system of claim 4, further comprising:

a display unit displaying on a screen at least on of the radar accident candidate list, the camera accident candidate list, and the AIS accident candidate list.

6. The vessel traffic service system of claim 5, wherein the display unit and the input unit are separated from the control unit to include an operator computer formed outside.

7. A method for extracting marine accident data, the method comprising:

receiving conditional information for extracting marine accident data from a user;

receiving data corresponding to the conditional information from equipment to be searched, which monitors the sea; and

extracting an event occurrence part among the data corresponding to the conditional information and recording the extracted event to generate an accident candidate list for each equipment to be searched,

wherein the conditional information includes information of a concerned area which is an accident occurrence point, a concerned time range which is an accident occurrence time range, and equipment to be searched that includes AIS, radar and camera systems, and

wherein in the receiving of data corresponding to the conditional information, a coordinate value is calculated for each of the equipment to be searched with respect to the concerned area.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein in the generating of the accident candidate list, when the data corresponding to the conditional information is a camera image signal, an inter-frame difference image of the camera image signal is generated and accumulated and thereafter, when a vessel exists in the difference image, a time and a position at which the vessel exists are recorded to generate a camera accident candidate list.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein when an image value of an object displayed in the difference image is larger than a predetermined target detection level value, it is determined that the object is the vessel and the vessel is recorded in the accident candidate list.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein in the generating of the accident candidate list, when the data corresponding to the conditional information is a radar signal, a difference image is generated and accumulated by the unit of scan with respect to the radar signal and thereafter, when a vessel exists in the difference image, a time and a position at which the vessel exists are recorded in the accident candidate list to generate a radar accident candidate list.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein when an image value of an object displayed in the difference image is larger than a predetermined target detection level value, it is determined that the object is the vessel and the vessel is recorded in the accident candidate list.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein in the generating of the accident candidate list, when the data corresponding to the conditional information is an AIS signal, it is determined whether the vessel exists in a range of a latitude/longitude coordinate of the concerned area among latitude/longitude coordinate values of the vessel, which are included in the AIS signal and when the vessel exists in the latitude/longitude coordinate of the concerned range, the vessel is recorded in the accident candidate list to generate the AIS accident candidate list.

13. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

displaying on the screen at least one of the accident candidate lists for each equipment to be searched.