Targeted Enforcement For Road User Charging

• US 20110241899A1
• Filed: 04/01/2010
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sheopuri, Anshul, Naphade, Milind R., Appel, Todd M., Ashby, Duncan A., Thornqvist, Anders, Nash, Richard J., Chun, So Yeon, Vuyk, Martin
• Application Number:
  US12/752,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20110241899A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/933
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/063 using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence

Abstract

A method is disclosed that includes, for a set of passages of a vehicle, where each passage is associated with at least one confidence level, applying at least one heuristic to confidence levels corresponding to the set to determine at least one score. The method also includes performing the applying at least one heuristic for a number of sets of passages of a number of vehicles and selecting a number of the sets based on their associated at least one scores. The method additionally includes outputting identifications corresponding to each of the selected sets. Apparatus and computer readable media are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

for a set of passages of a vehicle, where each passage is associated with at least one confidence level, applying at least one heuristic to confidence levels corresponding to the set to determine at least one score;

performing the applying at least one heuristic for a plurality of sets of passages of a plurality of vehicles;

selecting a number of the sets based on their associated at least one scores; and

outputting identifications corresponding to each of the selected sets.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one passage for a vehicle is a passage through a gantry.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one confidence level for at least one of the passage corresponds to an automatic number plate recognition observation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting a number further comprises ranking each of the sets based upon corresponding at least one scores.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein selecting further comprises selecting those sets having corresponding at least one scores meeting a predetermined criterion.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one heuristic comprises at least one of 1−

√

{square root over (n)}(1−

p1)(1−

p2) . . . (1−

pn), 1−

√

{square root over (n/N)}(1−

p1)(1−

p2) . . . (1−

pn), mean(p1, p2, . . . , pn), or median(p1, p2, . . . , pn), where n is a number of passages for a particular set, p1 is a confidence level for passage 1, p2 is the confidence level for passage 2, . . . , and pn is a confidence level for passage n, and N is the total number of passages.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein applying at least one heuristic further comprises applying a plurality of heuristics to confidence levels corresponding to the set to determine at least one score.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifications identify associated ones of the vehicles.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one memory comprising instructions; and

at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured by the instructions to cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising;

for a set of passages of a vehicle, where each passage is associated with at least one confidence level, applying at least one heuristic to confidence levels corresponding to the set to determine at least one score;

performing the applying at least one heuristic for a plurality of sets of passages of a plurality of vehicles;

selecting a number of the sets based on their associated at least one scores; and

outputting identifications corresponding to each of the selected sets.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein at least one passage for a vehicle is a passage through a gantry.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one confidence level for at least one of the passage corresponds to an automatic number plate recognition observation.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein selecting a number further comprises ranking each of the sets based upon corresponding at least one scores.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein selecting further comprises selecting those sets having corresponding at least one scores meeting a predetermined criterion.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one heuristic comprises at least one of 1−

√

{square root over (n)}(1−

p1)(1−

p2) . . . (1−

pn), 1−

√

{square root over (n/N)}(1−

p1)(1−

p2) . . . (1−

pn), mean(p1, p2, . . . pn), or median(p1, p2, . . . , pn), where n is a number of passages for a particular set, p1 is a confidence level for passage 1, p2 is the confidence level for passage 2, . . . , and pn is a confidence level for passage n, and N is the total number of passages.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the identifications identify associated ones of the vehicles.

16. A computer readable medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

for a set of passages of a vehicle, where each passage is associated with at least one confidence level, applying at least one heuristic to confidence levels corresponding to the set to determine at least one score;

performing the applying at least one heuristic for a plurality of sets of passages of a plurality of vehicles;

selecting a number of the sets based on their associated at least one scores; and

outputting identifications corresponding to each of the selected sets.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein at least one passage for a vehicle is a passage through a gantry.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the at least one confidence level for at least one of the passage corresponds to an automatic number plate recognition observation.