INTELLIGENT LASER TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE AND FIXED POSITION TRAFFIC MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT APPLICATIONS
First Claim
1. A tracking system comprising:
- a processor;
a visual sensor subsystem coupled to said processor;
a laser speed measurement subsystem coupled to said processor; and
a pan/tilt subsystem coupled to said processor and movably supporting said visual sensor and laser speed measurement subsystems.
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Abstract
An intelligent laser tracking system and method for mobile and fixed position traffic monitoring and enforcement applications. The system disclosed herein can autonomously track multiple target vehicles with a highly accurate laser based speed measurement system or, under manual control via a touch screen, select a particular target vehicle of interest. In a mobile application the police vehicle speed is determined through the OBD II CAN port and updated for accuracy though an onboard GPS subsystem. The system and method of the present invention simultaneously provides both narrow and wide images of a target vehicle for enhanced evidentiary purposes. A novel, low inertia pan/tilt mechanism provides extremely fast and accurate target vehicle tracking and can compensate for geometrical errors and the cosine effect.
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40 Claims
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1. A tracking system comprising:
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a processor; a visual sensor subsystem coupled to said processor; a laser speed measurement subsystem coupled to said processor; and a pan/tilt subsystem coupled to said processor and movably supporting said visual sensor and laser speed measurement subsystems. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for monitoring the speed of one or more target vehicles comprising:
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a processor a laser speed measurement subsystem coupled to said processor; a visual sensor subsystem coupled to said processor; and a pan/tilt subsystem coupled to said processor and operative to autonomously track said one or more target vehicles based on input from said visual sensor subsystem, said system determining a speed of said one or more target vehicles based on input from said laser speed measurement subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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