Radar Detection, Tracking and Recording System

• US 20070109187A1
• Filed: 11/15/2005
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gary Murphy
• Original Assignee: Gary Murphy
• Inventors: Murphy, Gary
• Application Number:
  US11/164,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20070109187A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.310
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/022 Road traffic radar detectors

Abstract

This invention describes a device that will detect the use of radar by law enforcement and combine that information with the current location and time. The information will be recorded and loaded into software database that will aggregate the information for analysis to determine where the use of radar by law enforcement officials is most common.

Claims

1. A device that will record the current time and location at which radar-based speed detection was detected as well as the strength of the signal and the band that was detected. This device will combine the capabilities of existing consumer radar detection with the capabilities of consumer global positional satellite (GPS) technology. When a radar signal is detected, software or firmware residing on the device will make a note of the signal strength and band. Said software or firmware will access information available from GPS circuitry to note the current time and location at which the radar signal was detected. Said software will record or transmit this information for subsequent processing.

2. The method as described in claim 1 that will record the information on a computer medium capable of maintaining the information even if there is removal of power from the device.

3. The method as described in claim 1 that will transmit the information gathered by the device to another computer-based device using wireless networking technology such as, but not limited to, Bluetooth, GSM, or 802.11 networking technology.

4. A software system for aggregating the information obtained as described in claim 1 such that analysis can be done to determine where law enforcement most frequently uses radar to detect speeding.