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6035053 Moving subject recognizing system for automotive vehicle  
A moving subject recognizing system for recognizing a subject, such as a pedestrian, moving toward a forward path of a vehicle to avoid a collision against the subject scans a field ahead the...
5999877 Traffic flow monitor apparatus  
A traffic flow monitor apparatus which can monitor a traffic flow at high precision over a wide range from the position near a TV camera to the distant position regardless of traffic conditions. An...
5995900 Infrared traffic sensor with feature curve generation  
The present invention is an infrared traffic sensor with feature curve generation to derive empirical information for determining traffic patterns. A real-time IR image camera is positioned over an...
5963253 Light sensor and thresholding method for minimizing transmission of redundant data  
A thresholding method and improved light sensor that reduce the processing requirements of processors used to control the shutter, gain, and pedestal settings of license plate cameras employed in a...
5963272 Method and apparatus for generating a reference image from an image sequence  
A locally-adaptive method and apparatus for constructing a reference image containing only the background from an image sequence containing moving or temporarily-stationary objects. Specifically,...
5912634 Traffic monitoring device and method  
A traffic monitoring device comprising a picture recording unit, a traffic dectection zone determination unit and a picture analysis unit, the traffic detection zone determination unit of which...
5896167 Apparatus for photographing moving body  
An apparatus for photographing a moving body. A video memory including a plurality of frame memories is used in order to store frame images obtained by a plurality of photographing operations. The...
5892855 Apparatus for detecting an object located ahead of a vehicle using plural cameras with different fields of view  
An onboard forward monitoring system is disclosed in which three television cameras, each supported by a steering mechanism, take picture of a road surface located forward of a vehicle at near...
5886738 Apparatus within a street lamp for remote surveillance  
A covert surveillance system for viewing images from a remote location is provided. The surveillance system provides a mirror, lens and camera arrangement within a small enclosure which allows full...
5862244 Satellite traffic reporting system and methods  
With a constellation of low-earth orbiting satellites, instantaneous photographs of all large cities can be made available in real-time or near real-time. Those photographs can be downloaded to...
5847755 Method and apparatus for detecting object movement within an image sequence  
Method and apparatus for processing a sequence of images to detect object movement within the sequence. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: (a) supplying a sequence of image frames;...
5825412 Video detection apparatus for monitoring a railroad crossing  
Apparatus (10) monitors a railroad crossing (X) for the presence of an object (H, V, A) in the crossing. The apparatus determines if an object is of sufficient size to damage to a train (1)...
5809161 Vehicle monitoring system  
An object monitoring system includes a camera node (2) for monitoring movement of an object (18) to determine an acquisition time when an image of the object (18) is to be acquired and acquiring...
5805209 Vehicle camera system  
A vehicle camera system for obtaining picture data of a runaway vehicle is provided in a toll road system. A vehicle passing a tollgate (4) is picked up by a camera (6). As a license plate of a...
5767794 traffic surveillance process and device  
A traffic surveillance system measures a speed of a vehicle within a traffic scene, optically records the traffic scene, and reproduces the traffic scene on a display in synchronism with a display...
5757286 Method and a device for the registration of the movement of a vehicle  
A device and method for registering the displacement of a vehicle using a video camera device located above the ground and including a pair of cameras spaced parallel to the ground and directed to...
5747888 Back up system for the supply of voltage in television cable systems  
A back-up system for the supply of electric voltage to the main trunk and secondary amplifier located within a television cable system when an electric fault in the electric supply occurs includes...
5734337 Vehicle speed monitoring system  
A method for determining the speed of a vehicle using a camera. The method automatically compensates an apparent speed determination for inaccuracies due to the position of the camera with respect...
5706362 Image tracking apparatus  
An image tracking apparatus includes a video camera 10 for forming an image of a target vehicle and for producing image signals at predetermined time intervals, a first memory 5A for storing image...
5691902 Moving body measuring device and an image processing device for measuring traffic flows  
A moving body measuring device, having an image taking unit for taking an image of a moving body, a controller for controlling the image taking unit and a frame memory for memorizing an image data...
5689249 Off-lane alarm apparatus  
An off-lane alarm apparatus is disclosed in which upon the increase of the height of a pickup sensor mounted on a car, the increased portion is provided for an image processing device. The image...
5677979 Video incident capture system  
a video incident capture system for law enforcement vehicles. The video incident capture system incorporates a video camera, a video recorder, a radar unit, a real time clock, a monitor, a portable...
5646853 Traffic control system  
A traffic control system having a road information storing unit for storing information of a road map and the capacity of roads on the road map, a traffic measuring unit for measuring the traffic...
5598338 Device for detecting the existence of moving bodies in an image  
A moving body measuring device, having an image taking unit for taking an image of a moving body, a controllers for controlling the image taking unit and a frame memory for memorizing an image data...
5590217 Vehicle activity measuring apparatus  
The present invention provides vehicle activity data by accurately measuring and collecting traffic information, such as vehicle speed, number of passing vehicles, types such as small size and...
5563590 Process and device for securing data mixed into an image  
In an automatic speed monitoring system of the type in which data is incorporated into a photograph of a vehicle, security of the data is provided through the addition of redundant information to...
5530421 Circuit for automated control of on-board closed circuit television system having side and rear view cameras  
An automotive vehicle, such as a tractor-trailer, has a closed circuit television system that provides the driver with rear and side views of blind spots that the he or she may otherwise be unable...
5515042 Traffic enforcement device  
An improved traffic monitoring and evidence gathering device (10) is provided which can be mounted in a mobile monitoring vehicle (32) in order to monitor vehicle traffic speed and, when a speeding...
5491464 Remotely controlled radar gun and video recording apparatus  
A new and improved remotely-controlled radar gun apparatus is provided for a motor vehicle which has a metal roof. A remote-controlled radar gun assembly is mounted on a roof-mounted support...
5486819 Road obstacle monitoring device  
A road obstacle monitoring device is disclosed, in which a monitoring imaging section monitors and images a road section, where road obstacles by wave flooding, land slip, etc. are foreseen, to...
5432547 Device for monitoring disregard of a traffic signal  
A device for cracking down on disregard of a traffic signal includes a television camera for imaging a road, on which signal lights are mounted at a cross; a vehicle movement measuring instrument...
5430290 Photosensitive element and detector for detecting flashes of light  
The present invention relates to a photosensitive element (1) for detecting flashes of light (2). According to the invention, said photosensitive element (1) includes a control device (4) knowing...
5404306 Vehicular traffic monitoring system  
A vehicular traffic monitoring system incorporates an array of photosensors and a nonlinear resistive network for identifying, locating, and processing outliers in sensor images of a highway or...
5396429 Traffic condition information system  
A series of image sensors is spaced along a roadway at particular intervals to provide images of the traffic and an identification signal associating those images with the location of the...
5355326 Method of effecting a motion filtering for slow targets, and an apparatus for executing the method  
A method of producing a motion filter for detecting point targets moving slowing within a sequence of readjusted binary images, these images corresponding to a history at the instant n-1, denoted...
5331312 Obstacle-detecting apparatus  
This device can detect an obstacle in a railroad crossing or similar setting by way of image processing independently of a height and a width of an obstacle. The image data read from a video,...
5301115 Apparatus for detecting the travel path of a vehicle using image analysis  
An apparatus for detecting a vehicle path along which a vehicle is traveling. An image of a road presented in front of the vehicle is inputted at intervals of time. The inputted image is processed...
5296852 Method and apparatus for monitoring traffic flow  
A vision processing apparatus and method for detecting and monitoring traffic flow. The method includes the steps of generating successive images of a section of roadway; transducing the successive...
5289321 Consolidated rear view camera and display system for motor vehicle  
A rear viewing arrangement is provided for a motor vehicle to permit the operator to view traffic conditions to rearward from left and right sides of the vehicle, as well as directly behind the...
5172235 Imaging system for simultaneous viewing of two images  
For simultaneous viewing, for example, of a stretch of roadway in front of a vehicle, with telephoto and wide-angle images, an electronic receiver receives telephoto and wide-angle image...
5101200 Fast lane credit card  
A toll paying system for use with a vehicle passing through a fast lane, having a toll booth. The toll paying system comprises detection means, class determining means, a wallboard, and a vehicle...
5066950 Traffic safety monitoring apparatus  
A traffic monitoring system comprising apparatus for establishing a pair of precisely spaced radiation beams in association with a thoroughfare, whereby passage of a vehicle along the thoroughfare...
5027200 Enhanced viewing at side and rear of motor vehicles  
Apparatus permits viewing of traffic or other conditions to the rear and side of a motor vehicle having opposite sides, and includes video camera structure mounted to the vehicle and directed...
4989084 Airport runway monitoring system  
A system for monitoring and recording the movement of aircraft and their external characteristics and paths during and after landing and take-off from an airport runway detects malfunctions, pilot...
4977451 Process and apparatus for automatic surveillance of a site  
The invention relates to a system for automatic surveillance of a site by recording data collected by a video camera 3 upon the occurrence of an incidental event (e.g. a road accident). The...
4949186 Vehicle mounted surveillance system  
A vehicle mounted surveillance system is disclosed. The system comprises a camera and a control head mounted within the police vehicle and a video recorder housed in a fireproof, bulletproof and...
4887080 Stationary traffic monitoring device  
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...
4807024 Three-dimensional display methods and apparatus  
Three-dimensional images are produced from a sequence of images generated by a single camera mounted on a platform moving at constant velocity and spacing with respect to a subject to be imaged....
4646146 Surveillance camera device with automatically controlled shutter  
A surveillance device consists of a video camera, a shutterless objective, a transmission optic element with an automatically controlled cat's eye shutter, and reflecting mirrors, for projecting an...
4214265 Method and device for supervising the speed of an object  
A system for supervising the speed of an object, such as a vehicle, relative to a reference point, wherein a TV-camera is utilized. The TV-camera is mounted at the reference point and directed at a...
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