Vehicle speeding detection and identification
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1. A method in traffic control for the detection and identification of moving vehicles on a roadway whose vehicle speed exceeds a predetermined speed limit, the method including:
- (a) measuring the speed of the vehicles and determining if any of the vehicles are speeding vehicles because their speed exceeds the predetermined speed limit;
(b) automatically reading the license plate number of the speeding vehicles using an opto-electric reader which converts license plate alpha-numerics into digital signals;
(c) automatically, in a computer system, matching the license plate digital signals with a database of vehicle license numbers and deriving associated information therefrom associated with the matched license plate digital signals, including the name of the speeding vehicle'"'"'s registered owner; and
(d) displaying the name of the speeding vehicle'"'"'s registered owner to the speeding vehicles.
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Abstract
A method of traffic control is disclosed which includes the steps of measuring the speed of a vehicle, automatically reading the license plate of the vehicle, automatically, in a computer system, matching the license plate number to information about the owner of the vehicle, and displaying the name of the owner of the vehicle.
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1. A method in traffic control for the detection and identification of moving vehicles on a roadway whose vehicle speed exceeds a predetermined speed limit, the method including:
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(a) measuring the speed of the vehicles and determining if any of the vehicles are speeding vehicles because their speed exceeds the predetermined speed limit; (b) automatically reading the license plate number of the speeding vehicles using an opto-electric reader which converts license plate alpha-numerics into digital signals; (c) automatically, in a computer system, matching the license plate digital signals with a database of vehicle license numbers and deriving associated information therefrom associated with the matched license plate digital signals, including the name of the speeding vehicle'"'"'s registered owner; and (d) displaying the name of the speeding vehicle'"'"'s registered owner to the speeding vehicles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A traffic control system for the detection and identification of moving vehicles on a roadway whose vehicle speed exceeds a predetermined speed limit, the system including:
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(a) means to measure the speed of the vehicles and determine if any of the vehicles are speeding vehicles because their speed exceeds the predetermined speed limit; (b) an opto-electric reader means for automatically reading the license plate number of the speeding vehicles and converting license plate number alpha-numerics into digital signals; (c) a computer database of license plate numbers and associated information associated with each license plate number, the associated information including the names of the registered owners; (d) computer means for matching the license plate digital signals and the computer database of vehicle license numbers and deriving therefrom the associated information; (e) display means for displaying the names of the registered owners of speeding vehicles to the speeding vehicles. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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