INTEGRATED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SURVEILLANCE CAMERA FOR VEHICLE

• US 20140375813A1
• Filed: 11/21/2012
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hanwha Vision Company Limited (Hanwha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Techwin Corporation (Hanwha Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Hyun-Jin, Lim, Jeong-Eun, Kim, Sun-Ki
• Granted Patent: US 9,779,311 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/62 Text, e.g. of license plates, overlay texts or captions on TV images
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence

Abstract

An integrated control system and method using a vehicle surveillance camera, the method including: receiving vehicle license plate number information obtained by analyzing an image captured using the vehicle surveillance camera, from the vehicle surveillance camera via a server; receiving time information and position information about when and where the captured image was generated, from the vehicle surveillance camera via the server; and constructing a database by referring to the vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information received via the server.

Claims

1. An integrated control method using a vehicle surveillance camera, the method comprising:

receiving vehicle license plate number information obtained by analyzing an image captured using the vehicle surveillance camera, from the vehicle surveillance camera via a server;

receiving time information and position information about when and where the captured image was generated, from the vehicle surveillance camera via the server; and

constructing a database by referring to the vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information received via the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information are converted into metadata.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information are data that are obtained by analyzing a captured image for each of frames and structuring the analyzed data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle surveillance camera is installed on at least one of a front side, a lateral side, and a backside of a vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information received via the server are coded data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to search for a vehicle at a predetermined position and a predetermined time, via the server;

extracting data that corresponds to the search request, from the database, via the server; and

extracting a vehicle number from the extracted data, via the server.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to search for a predetermined vehicle from a user terminal;

extracting any data including the vehicle license plate number information of the predetermined vehicle from the database, via the server;

listing the time information corresponding to the extracted data according to time;

obtaining a movement path of the predetermined vehicle by using the position information corresponding to the listed data.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when the server is to search for a time period required to pass a section between a first position and a second position, wherein the first position is a start position and the second position is an arrival position:

extracting the vehicle license plate number information including both information regarding the first position and information regarding the second position from the database, via the server;

calculating time required for a vehicle having the extracted vehicle license plate number information to pass the section by using time information corresponding to the information regarding the first position and the information regarding the second position, via the server; and

calculating an average of the time required for the vehicle having the extracted vehicle license plate number information to pass the section.

9. An integrated control system comprising:

a communication unit for receiving vehicle license plate number information obtained by analyzing an image captured by using a vehicle surveillance camera and time information and position information regarding when and where the captured image was generated;

a database constructing unit for constructing a database by referring to the received vehicle license plate number information, the time information, and the position information of a vehicle; and

a searching unit for receiving a request to search for at least one of a vehicle number, a time required to pass a section, a movement path, from a user terminal, and searching the database and providing data that corresponds to the request.