Method of Detecting and Documenting Traffic Violations, Such as Red Light Violations or Speeding Violations
First Claim
1. A method of documenting traffic violations, comprising, capturing measured data of a first vehicle which passes through a predetermined measurement range on a roadway having a plurality of vehicle lanes, storing said measured data as a measured data packet jointly with a measuring time point, taking a picture of said first vehicle with a camera at a picture-taking time point, which picture is stored as an image data packet, wherein there is a known temporal correlation between the picture-taking time point and the measuring time point, which correlation makes it possible to link the image data packet uniquely to the measured data packet so as to be able to generate a first vehicle data packet, and capturing measured data for additional vehicles that pass through a predetermined measurement range and storing said measured data for said additional vehicles as measured data packets jointly with measuring time points, and checking to determine whether said measuring time points occur within a time interval after said measuring time point and that, if necessary, the image data packet is duplicated in order to link it to the relevant measured data packet so as to generate additional vehicle data packets.
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Abstract
According to the present invention, a first measured data packet M1 of a first vehicle 1 at a first measuring time point tM1 and a first image data packet B1 are generated, and measured data packets MX of additional vehicles X are generated at additional measuring time points tMX, to which measured data packets duplicates of the first image data packet B1 are linked to the extent that the additional measuring time points tMX occur within a predetermined time interval a after the first measuring time point tM1.
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- 1. A method of documenting traffic violations, comprising, capturing measured data of a first vehicle which passes through a predetermined measurement range on a roadway having a plurality of vehicle lanes, storing said measured data as a measured data packet jointly with a measuring time point, taking a picture of said first vehicle with a camera at a picture-taking time point, which picture is stored as an image data packet, wherein there is a known temporal correlation between the picture-taking time point and the measuring time point, which correlation makes it possible to link the image data packet uniquely to the measured data packet so as to be able to generate a first vehicle data packet, and capturing measured data for additional vehicles that pass through a predetermined measurement range and storing said measured data for said additional vehicles as measured data packets jointly with measuring time points, and checking to determine whether said measuring time points occur within a time interval after said measuring time point and that, if necessary, the image data packet is duplicated in order to link it to the relevant measured data packet so as to generate additional vehicle data packets.
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