Stationary traffic monitoring device

• US 4,887,080 A
• Filed: 08/11/1988
• Issued: 12/12/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robot FOTO & Electronic GmbH & Company KG (Jenoptik AG)
• Original Assignee: Robot FOTO und Electronic GmbH U Company KG
• Inventors: Gross, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Hollis T.
• Application Number:
  US07/231,158
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• Field of Search: 340/937, 340/941, 340/936, 340/939, 364/436, 358/108, 358/210, 346/107 VP
• US Class Current: 340/937
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules

Abstract

In a stationary traffic monitoring device a housing is fixedly installed at a place of operation. An insert having a recording camera and control and evaluation unit is adapted to be optionally inserted into the housing. The data specific for the operation site, for example identification sign of the operation site, switch-off times or the delay times required for the operation site, are memorized in a housing-fixed memory and are automatically transferred to the control and evaluation unit when the insert is inserted into the housing.

Claims

1. A stationary traffic monitoring device comprising

a housing fixedly installed at an operation site, and

an insert having a recording camera and a control and evaluation unit adapted to receive data specific for the operation site,

in which

the data specific for the operation site are memorized in memory means, said memory means being adapted to transmit said data to the control and evaluation unit when the insert is inserted into the housing.

2. A stationary traffic monitoring device as claimed in claim 1, in which the memory means are formed by a semiconductor memory.

3. A stationary traffic monitoring device as claimed in claim 2, in which the semiconductor memory is formed by a card-shaped integral switching circuit.

4. A stationary traffic monitoring device as claimed in claim 1, in which the memory means comprise a coded plug.

5. A stationary traffic monitoring device as claimed in claim 1, in which the memory means comprise a program arranged to switch over the control and evaluation unit to a mode of operation (for example speed or red light monitoring) specific for the operation site.