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US 11,694,464 B2Granted
Vehicle occupancy verification utilizing occupancy confirmation
AssigneeRideflag Technologies Inc.
InventorsMichel Papineau, Mark Feltham
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Abstract
The present invention is a method and system to verify carpool occupancy compliance for access to High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, High Occupancy or Toll (HOT) lanes, or other vehicle-occupancy contingent rewards. The present invention uses software and hardware devices with radio-frequency transmitter modules to capture one or more photo images of vehicle occupants and to perform boxed headcounts of humans in any given photo frame. The present invention uses biometric signature detection to confirm the boxed headcounts and a realness algorithm to further confirm the genuineness of any human image. Occupancy compliance can be communicated directly to an appropriate regulatory body.
Claims22
A method of verifying vehicle occupancy, the method comprising:
- capturing one or more electronic images of occupants of a vehicle;
- employing optical spatial differentiation upon said one or more electronic images to perform a first individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employing biometric identification upon said occupants of said vehicle to perform a second individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employing an algorithmic analysis upon said one or more electronic images to perform a third individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle, wherein said algorithmic analysis determines a probability of a genuineness of said one or more electronic images being of one or more live human beings;
- calculating actual vehicle occupancy as a function of said first individual uniqueness determination, said second individual uniqueness determination, and said third individual uniqueness determination;
- using a first data server to send communications from the first data server to a second data server;
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- using one or more smart device to receive communications from the first data server and/or the second data server.
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A system of verifying vehicle occupancy, the system comprising:
- a first data server in communication with a second data server;
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- one or more smart devices in communication with said first data server and/or said second data server and configured to capture one or more electronic images of occupants of a vehicle;
- wherein the system is configured to:
- employ optical spatial differentiation upon said one or more electronic images to perform a first individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employ biometric identification upon said occupants of said vehicle to perform a second individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employ an algorithmic analysis upon said one or more electronic images to perform a third individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle, wherein said algorithmic analysis determines a probability of a genuineness of said one or more electronic images being of one or more live human beings;
- calculate actual vehicle occupancy as a function of said first individual uniqueness determination, said second individual uniqueness determination, and said third individual uniqueness determination;
- use said first data server to send communications from said first data server to said second data server;
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- use said one or more smart devices to receive communications from said first data server and/or said second data server.
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A method of verifying vehicle occupancy, the method comprising:
- employing optical spatial differentiation upon one or more electronic images of occupants of a vehicle to perform a first individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employing biometric identification upon said occupants of said vehicle to perform a second individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employing an algorithmic analysis upon said one or more electronic images to perform a third individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle, wherein said algorithmic analysis determines a probability of a genuineness of said one or more electronic images being of one or more live human beings;
- calculating actual vehicle occupancy as a function of said first individual uniqueness determination, said second individual uniqueness determination, and said third individual uniqueness determination;
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- using a first data server to communicate with one or more smart devices.
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A system of verifying vehicle occupancy, the system comprising:
- a first data server in communication with one or more smart devices, wherein the first data server is configured to:
- employ optical spatial differentiation upon one or more electronic images of occupants of a vehicle captured by the one or more smart device to perform a first individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employ biometric identification upon said occupants of said vehicle to perform a second individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle;
- employ an algorithmic analysis upon said one or more electronic images to perform a third individual uniqueness determination upon said occupants of said vehicle, wherein said algorithmic analysis determines a probability of a genuineness of said one or more electronic images being of one or more live human beings;
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- calculate actual vehicle occupancy as a function of said first individual uniqueness determination, said second individual uniqueness determination, and said third individual uniqueness determination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.