Real time notification and confirmation system and method for vehicle traffic violation

• US 9,886,851 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2015
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shihao Lin
• Original Assignee: Shihao Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Shihao
• Primary Examiner(s): Casillashernandez, Omar
• Application Number:
  US14/741,450
• Publication Number:
  US 20150302744A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• Field of Search: 340933
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0137 for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/054 photographing overspeeding vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

The present invention discloses a real time notification and confirmation system and method for vehicle traffic violations. The system includes a user terminal device, an electronic police device, a traffic control center. The traffic control center analyzes, determines and stores the suspected violation information uploaded by the electronic police device and the identification information inputted by the user terminal device into the database of the traffic control center. The traffic control center sends related notification and an alert message to the user terminal device based on the analysis and determination result. The invention enables a driver to acquire an on-the-spot traffic violation record, a timely warning, correction, and effectively exercising his rights to be heard and defending himself/herself. The present invention helps the traffic control center to timely determine the real violator and prevent a driver from blaming others to take the punishment instead of himself/herself.

Claims

1. A method of real time notification and confirmation for vehicle traffic violations, comprising:

inputting identification information of a driver, a vehicle owner and a vehicle by a user terminal device;

uploading the identification information to a traffic control center by a network communication system to perform a registration or a cancellation;

uploading a name, a company and vehicle plate information of the vehicle owner as well as a correspondence address and a telephone number of the vehicle owner to the traffic control center through a form selected from a group consisting of a prefabricated user identity information card, a keyboard input, a voice input, an image input;

storing the name, the company and vehicle plate information of the vehicle owner as well as the correspondence address and the telephone number of the vehicle owner in a database of the traffic control center;

wherein the name, the company and the vehicle plate information of the vehicle owner as well as the correspondence address and the telephone number of the vehicle owner are updated in time if a change exists to enable the traffic control center to accurately identify the identification information of the vehicle owner;

monitoring and evidencing an illegal passing vehicle by an electronic police device;

uploading obtained suspected violation information to the traffic control center through the network communication system;

performing a matching and a contrastive analysis on received suspected vehicle violation information and the identification information through a background service computer center in the traffic control center without a need of manual review;

transmitting the obtained suspected violation information of a suspected illegal vehicle to a registered user terminal device in real time;

recording the suspected violation information into a database;

making videos and taking photos through a shooting apparatus, an image processing module and a candid shooting module when the electronic police device finds that a vehicle is suspected of breaking the law and regulations;

extracting the vehicle plate information of, the vehicle by a vehicle license identification module;

comparing, the vehicle plate information with the related information in the database of the vehicle owner and the driver by the background service computer center of the traffic control center without the need of manual review of a completeness of a vehicle violation evidence;

if the information is matched, sending information obtained by the electronic police device directly to the vehicle owner and the driver in time, wherein the information includes a license plate number of the suspected illegal vehicle, a violation type;

a violation place, and a violation time;

contrasting and judging the information of the driver and the information of the vehicle owner by the traffic control center;

if the information of the driver is the same as the information of the vehicle owner, setting the user terminal device with a function of convenient operating by the traffic control center;

if the information of the driver is different from the information of the vehicle owner, notifying the vehicle owner and driver with suspected vehicle violation information in the same time through a corresponding communication system and recording related information into the database of the vehicle owner and the driver by the traffic control center;

after the user terminal device receives the suspected vehicle violation information, feeding information to be understood, appealed or confirmed back to the traffic control center by the driver and vehicle owner;

recording and storing feedback information replied by the user terminal device into the database by the traffic control center;

after the vehicle owner and the driver pre-registered in the database of the vehicle owner and the driver of the traffic control center receives a warning for the information of a suspected vehicle violation type, the violation place, the violation time sent by the traffic control center, on the premise of ensuring, driving safety, giving replied information as soon as possible to reply in time or require an exemption because they are irrelevant to a case of the illegal vehicle or argue to finally make a confirmation or a declamatory intention by viewing evidence information of place, time, specific violation behaviors about the case of the illegal vehicle, collected by the electronic police device, in order to avoid a mechanical incorrect judgment of an electronic device;

recording the feedback information into a vehicle violation database and establishing a related link with the databases of the vehicle owner and the driver by the background service computer center of the traffic control center to enable the traffic control center to judge reflection timeliness, truth and recognition attitude of the vehicle owner and the driver for the suspected violation behaviors in the future when investigating and prosecuting the suspected violation case of the vehicle and to combine their past violation times, frequency and kinds as an important basis for punishing leniently, alleviating or exempting the vehicle owner and the driver.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording and storing all kinds of information replied by the driver and the vehicle owner into the database by the traffic center; and

linking the database with related violation case information to be processed, mutually.