METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING REAL-TIME TRAFFIC VIDEO TO A HANDHELD DEVICE

• US 20090128365A1
• Filed: 11/19/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bruce Steven Laskin
• Original Assignee: Bruce Steven Laskin
• Inventors: LASKIN, Bruce Steven
• Application Number:
  US11/942,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20090128365A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/937
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/01 Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled G08G1/07 - G08G1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element

Abstract

A system and methods for viewing real time traffic video on a handheld device are shown and described. The method includes requesting by a handheld device, data from a remote traffic camera responsive to user input through a menu-driven interface of an application program. An appliance, residing in a traffic management center, creates coded image data representing a group of concatenated images by extracting selected frames from a video stream of the remote traffic camera and transmits the coded data to a host server. The handheld device receives the coded image data from the host server. The method also includes decoding the coded image data by the application program and displaying, on the handheld device, the group of concatenated images in repeated loops.

Claims

9. A method of displaying real time traffic data on a handheld device, the method comprising:

receiving, by a host server, coded image data of real-time traffic, the coded image data representing a group of concatenated still images created by an appliance residing in a traffic management center, the appliance creating the group by extracting selected frames from a remote traffic camera video stream;

receiving, by the host server via a wireless carrier server, a request for data from the remote traffic camera responsive to input provided by a user through a menu-driven interface of an application program executing on a handheld device; and

transmitting, by the host server, responsive to receiving the request, the coded image data to the handheld device, the handheld device decoding the coded image data and displaying the resulting group of concatenated still images in repeated loops.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising authenticating, by the host server, the handheld device responsive to receiving the request for data from the remote traffic camera.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising the host server and the handheld device communicating with one another via one or more wireless carrier networks.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising transmitting, by the host server, sponsored advertisement information to the handheld device, responsive to the handheld device requesting data from the remote traffic camera.

13. The method of claim 9 further comprising the host server communicating with an agent to determine content of the sponsored advertisement information to be transmitted to the handheld device.

14-1. The system of claim 14 wherein the appliance residing in the traffic management center is a codec.