MODULAR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

• US 20170025000A1
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wilfred J and Louisette G Lagassey Irrevocable Trust Roger J Morgan Trustee
• Original Assignee: Wilfred J and Louisette G Lagassey Irrevocable Trust Roger J Morgan Trustee
• Inventors: Lagassey, Paul J.
• Application Number:
  US15/185,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20170025000A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/00 Fuselages; Constructional features common to fuselages, wings, stabilising surfaces or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 37/02 Flying units formed by separate aircraft towing B64D3/00; aircraft transported by aircraft B64D5/00; air-refuelling B64D39/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/08 having multiple wings
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/44 Event detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/54 of traffic, e.g. cars on the road, trains or boats
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0116 from roadside infrastructure, e.g. beacons
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/094 Hardware aspects; Signal processing or signal properties, e.g. frequency bands
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A modular intelligent transportation system, comprising an environmentally protected enclosure, a system communications bus, a processor module, communicating with said bus, having a image data input and an audio input, the processor module analyzing the image data and/or audio input for data patterns represented therein, having at least one available option slot, a power supply, and a communication link for external communications, in which at least one available option slot can be occupied by a wireless local area network access point, having a communications path between said communications link and said wireless access point, or other modular components.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

at least one video camera configured to produce an image stream;

at least one memory configured to store the image stream;

a wireless communication network link to a communication network;

at least one processor configured to;

determine a motion vector of an object represented in the image stream;

determine an acceleration of the object;

produce a signal representing a decision made automatically in dependence on at least the determined acceleration; and

selectively transmit the image stream from the at least one memory through the wireless communication network link.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the determined acceleration is referenced to gravity.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the signal representing the decision selectively controls a communication over the wireless communication link.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the communication link comprises a wireless packet switched data local area network.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein the communication link comprises a wireless cellular network.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the communication link comprises a wireless packet switched data local area network and a wireless cellular network, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to select one of the wireless packet switched data local area network and a wireless cellular network for communication of the image stream.

7. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a microphone configured to capture an audio stream.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one video camera, the at least one memory, the wireless communication network link, and the at least one processor are all contained within a common environmentally protected housing sealed against weather conditions.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive executable commands through the communication network.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to manage a memory buffer.

11. A method, comprising:

receiving an image stream from at least one video camera;

storing the image stream in at least one memory;

determining a motion vector of an object represented in the image stream;

determining an acceleration of the object represented in the image stream;

producing a signal representing a decision made automatically in dependence on at least the determined acceleration by at least one automated processor; and

selectively transmit the image stream from the at least one memory through a wireless communication network link.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the determined acceleration is referenced to gravity.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising selectively controlling a communication over the wireless communication link in dependence on the decision.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the communication link comprises a wireless packet switched data local area network.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the communication link comprises a wireless cellular network.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the communication link comprises a wireless packet switched data local area network and a wireless cellular network,

further comprising selecting one of the wireless packet switched data local area network and a wireless cellular network for communication of the image stream.

17. The method according to claim 11, further capturing an audio stream from a microphone.

18. The method according to claim 11, further comprising sealing the at least one video camera, the at least one memory, the wireless communication network link, and the at least one processor within a common environmentally protected housing against weather conditions.

19. The method according to claim 11, further comprising receiving executable commands for the at least one automated processor through the communication network.

20. A system for processing a stream of live information, comprising:

at least one video camera configured to produce an image stream of a scene;

at least one memory configured to store a time-continuous portion of the image stream;

a wireless communication network link to a communication network, configured to transmit at least one of the image stream and the time-continuous portion of the image stream;

at least one processor configured to;

determine motion vectors of an object represented in the image stream over time;

determine at least one of an acceleration and a collision of the object represented in the image stream;

produce a characterization of the dynamics of the object represented in the image stream, made automatically in dependence on at least the at least one of the acceleration and the collision of the object represented in the image stream; and

selectively transmit the image stream through the wireless communication network link, in dependence on the characterization.