Portable electronic traffic event recorder
First Claim
1. Apparatus for recording traffic events occurring at a variety of vehicular traffic passageways comprising:
- (a) a portable housing unit;
(b) electronic data processing means contained in said housing unit;
(c) a plurality of display boards, each such display board displaying different vehicular traffic patterns and symbolic traffic events thereon, and each such display board being selectively and alternately mountable on said portable housing unit;
(d) a plurality of manually operated signaling means disposed at predetermined locations, said locations being selected to cause at least some of said plurality of signaling means to coincide with particular ones of said symbolic traffic events displayed on each said display board when it is mounted on said housing unit, and each said signaling means generating an electrical signal each time it is operated;
(e) electrical means interconnecting said plurality of signaling means and said electronic data processing means; and
(f) said electronic data processing means including an electronic memory means for receiving and storing said electrical signals generated by said signaling means.
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Abstract
Apparatus for recording traffic events occurring at a variety of vehicular traffic passageways, such apparatus including a portable housing unit having a keyboard presenting a predetermined pattern of pushbutton switches. A plurality of interchangeable display boards, each having different vehicular traffic patterns and symbolic traffic events displayed thereon, are selectively mounted over the keyboard, and each symbolic traffic even coincides with a particular pushbutton when so mounted. Choice of a suitable display board corresponding to a particular intersection and a desired type of traffic count allows a traffic checker to complete a traffic count by merely pressing a push-button switch corresponding to each observed traffic event and its location. The portable housing includes a data processor which places a switch- and time-identified signal in its memory for each pushbutton depression and may later be plugged into a master computer for abstraction, processing, and tabulated print-out of the recorded data according to the pre-programming of the master computer.
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1. Apparatus for recording traffic events occurring at a variety of vehicular traffic passageways comprising:
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(a) a portable housing unit; (b) electronic data processing means contained in said housing unit; (c) a plurality of display boards, each such display board displaying different vehicular traffic patterns and symbolic traffic events thereon, and each such display board being selectively and alternately mountable on said portable housing unit; (d) a plurality of manually operated signaling means disposed at predetermined locations, said locations being selected to cause at least some of said plurality of signaling means to coincide with particular ones of said symbolic traffic events displayed on each said display board when it is mounted on said housing unit, and each said signaling means generating an electrical signal each time it is operated; (e) electrical means interconnecting said plurality of signaling means and said electronic data processing means; and (f) said electronic data processing means including an electronic memory means for receiving and storing said electrical signals generated by said signaling means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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