Dynamic speed finding method

• US 7,525,480 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2007
• Issued: 04/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Southern Taiwan University
• Original Assignee: Souther Taiwan University
• Inventors: Sheu, Yih-Ran
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, DAO LINDA
• Application Number:
  US11/854,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 594 Days
• Field of Search: 342/357.01, 342/357.06, 342/357.08, 342/357.13, 701/208, 701/213, 701/214
• US Class Current: 342/357.31
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P

Abstract

A dynamic speed finding method to detect drive speed of a target, i.e., a speeding car, to serve as evidence in writing a traffic ticket is executed in the following steps: Step A: the position and speed of a speed finding object, i.e., a moving police car, are detected; Step B: the relative position and relative speed of the target are detected; Step C: the speed of the target is calculated; and Step D, the data of the speed of the target is stored.

Claims

1. A dynamic speed finding method comprising the following steps:

A. using Global Position System (GPS) to detect the position and speed of a speed finding object;

B. finding the relative position and relative speed of a target on the speed finding object; and

C. solving the speed of the target by the position and speed of the speed finding object and the relative position and relative speed between the speed finding object and the target,

wherein the speed of the target detected is solved by the following formula;

|V2c(i)|=|[|V1(i)|+sign[|P12c(i)|−

|P12c(i−

1)|]*|V12c(i)|]|

wherein, the |V1(i)| is an absolute speed of the speed finding object in relation to the ground;

|V2c(i)| is the speed of the target along the moving direction of the speed finding object;

|P12c(i)| and |P12c(i−

1)| are the relative consecutive positions between the speed finding object and the target along the moving direction of the speed finding object; and

|V12c(i)| is the relative speed between the speed finding object and the target along the moving direction of the speed finding object detected by a speed finding unit.

2. The dynamic speed finding method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising step D to store data of the speed of the target detected.

3. The dynamic speed finding method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the position of the target is further stored.

4. The dynamic speed finding method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the speed finding unit is a radar or laser speed finder.