VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION, TRACKING AND ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM
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Abstract
A system for monitoring and tracking vehicles in parking locations, public roadways and highway entrances and exits and other public vehicle access areas is provided, such as to monitor and track vehicles in parking spaces, public roadways and highways without the need for parking or traffic personnel. The system includes a meter system that generates image data of a vehicle in a parking space, public roadway and highway entrances and exits such as by creating an array of pixel data in a predetermined field of view that includes a vehicle identification tag and facial imaging. An enforcement and tracking system receives the image data and generates a vehicle license number, vehicle tag identification number and facial image from the image data, such as by analyzing the image data to identify the vehicle license number, vehicle tag identification number and facial image based on the expected location of the license tag, identification tag and field of view image data characteristics of the license tag, facial image or other suitable data. From the image data acquired, monitoring of parking spaces is performed and violation citations or notices are generated for errant vehicles in parking locations as well as notification to law enforcement and homeland security agencies of vehicles and facial images identified as being on a watch list.
92 Citations
40 Claims
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21. A method for monitoring vehicular activity comprising:
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receiving one set of image data of a plurality of vehicles entering or leaving a highway; extracting identifying feature data from the image data; determining whether radio frequency ID tag data has been received; requesting confirmation of vehicle identification tag data from a watch list using the identifying feature data if radio frequency ID tag data has not been received; assessing a first charge against a first account if the radio frequency ID tag data has been received; and assessing a second charge against a second account if the radio frequency ID tag data has not been received or confirmation of the vehicle identification tag data has not been received from the watch list. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system for monitoring vehicular activity comprising:
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a monitoring system for receiving a single set of image data of a plurality of vehicles entering or leaving a highway and generating vehicle feature data from the image data; a radio frequency device reader for reading a radio frequency identification device; a tag comparison system for determining whether a vehicle identification tag or a radio frequency identification device is present on one of the plurality of vehicles; and a billing system for assessing a charge based on the vehicle identification tag or the radio frequency identification device. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method for monitoring vehicular activity comprising:
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receiving one set of image data of a plurality of vehicles entering or leaving a highway; extracting identifying feature data from the image data; assessing a first charge against a first account if radio frequency ID tag data for a vehicle has been received; and assessing a second charge against a second account if vehicle identification tag data for the vehicle has been identified in the identifying feature data. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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Specification