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Systems and Methods For Surveillance and Traffic Monitoring (Claim Set I)

  • US 20100245125A1
  • Filed: 03/30/2009
  • Published: 09/30/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system comprising:

  • a signal monitoring computing device comprising one or more processors configured tomonitor the states of a traffic signal, wherein a first state indicates that the traffic signal is displaying a green signal and a second state indicates that the traffic signal is displaying a red signal; and

    generate and transmit a red signal message indicating that the traffic signal has changed to the second state of the traffic signal;

    a first imaging device configured tocapture a first set of images of a first surveillance zone during the first and second states of the traffic signal;

    time stamp the first set of captured images respectively in accordance with a corresponding network time; and

    store the first set of captured images in a temporary memory storage area of the first imaging device;

    a trigger monitoring computing device comprising one or more processors configured todetermine when a vehicle enters a violation zone, wherein the violation zone is within the first surveillance zone;

    generate and transmit an enter message indicating (a) that a vehicle has entered the violation zone and (b) the time the vehicle entered the violation zone in accordance with the corresponding network time;

    determine when the vehicle exits the violation zone; and

    generate and transmit an exit message indicating (a) that the vehicle has exited the violation zone and (b) the time the vehicle exited the violation zone in accordance with the corresponding network time; and

    a control computing device comprising one or more memory storage areas and one or more processors, the one or more processors configured torequest a subset of the first set of images of the first surveillance zone from the temporary memory storage area of the first imaging device that were captured during the first and second states of the traffic signal and store the first set of images in the one or more memory storage areas of the control computing device.

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