# US 10,872,524 B2 · Method and device for operating a traffic monitoring device, traffic monitoring device, and traffic monitoring system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,872,524 B2 - Document ID: US10872524B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/042,390 - Filed: 2018-07-23 - Published: 2018-12-06 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2016-01-21 - Assignees: JENOPTIK Robot GmbH - Applicants: JENOPTIK Robot GmbH - Inventors: Stefan Kienitz; Katrin Wirz; Siegrun Reis; Martin Schroeder; Lars Ole Keller - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10872524B2 ## CPC - G08G 1/0116: {from roadside infrastructure, e.g. beacons} - G06V 20/63: {Scene text, e.g. street names} - G08G 1/0112: {from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]} - G08G 1/0175: {by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules} - G08G 1/054: photographing overspeeding vehicles - G08G 1/092: {Coding or decoding of the information} - G08G 1/096708: {where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control} - G08G 1/096741: {where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle} - G08G 1/096783: {where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element} - H04W 4/44: for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] - H04W 4/46: for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V] - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract A method for operating a traffic monitoring device. A sensor signal is provided by a sensor device of the traffic monitoring device is first of all read in. An item of information is then generated using the sensor signal. Finally, the information is output to an interface to at least one vehicle. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for operating a traffic monitoring device, the method comprising: reading in at least one sensor signal provided by a sensor device of the traffic monitoring device, wherein a signal representing a license plate number of a vehicle is read in as the at least one sensor signal; interchanging an at least temporarily unique, encrypted object identifier of the vehicle between a vehicle interface and an interface of the traffic monitoring device and interchanging keys; generating an item of information using the at least one sensor signal; outputting the item of information via the interface of the traffic monitoring device to the vehicle and/or a computer unit; and assigning the license plate number to at least one local language using the sensor signal, wherein the item of information is generated based of the local language in the generating step. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a further signal from a signal source on or in the vehicle is read in as a locating signal, and wherein the locating signal is tracked and recorded over a distance. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of an image, an image sequence or a warning is generated as the item of information in the generating step. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a control signal for controlling the vehicle is also generated in the generating step using the sensor signal, and wherein the control signal is output via the interface of the traffic monitoring device in the outputting step. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the item of information is output via the interface of the traffic monitoring device in the outputting step in order to transmit the item of information to at least one further traffic monitoring device or at least one external data transmission device, and wherein at least one signal provided by the vehicle or the further traffic monitoring device or the external data transmission device is also read in in the reading-in step, wherein the item of information is also generated using the at least one signal in the generating step. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising: comparing the at least one signal with the at least one sensor signal to determine a difference between the at least one signal and the at least one sensor signal, wherein the item of information is generated based on the difference in the generating step. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one further sensor signal provided by the sensor device is read in in the reading-in step, wherein at least one further item of information is generated in the generating step using the further sensor signal, wherein the further item of information is output via the interface of the traffic monitoring device in the outputting step in order to transmit the further item of information to at least one further vehicle. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) A traffic monitoring device comprising: a sensor device for capturing at least one vehicle; and the apparatus as claimed in claim 8. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) A traffic monitoring system comprising: the traffic monitoring device as claimed in claim 9; and the vehicle that is coupled to the traffic monitoring device via the interface of the traffic monitoring device for transmitting the item of information. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a control program to have a computer carry out the method as claimed in claim 1.