Signal head processing system

A control light sensing system, comprising:

• one or more signal head detectors, each signal head detector comprising:
• a light sensing apparatus that separately senses each light of a plurality of lights of a control light signal head and for each light generates a first signal indicating an activated light, and a second signal indicating a deactivate light;
• a processor in data communication with the light sensing apparatus and that receives the signals generated by the light sensing apparatus;
• and
• a communication device in data communication with the processor and that generates and transmits a communication signal encoding the received signals generated by the light sensing apparatus;
• wherein each of the one or more signal head detectors is separate from the control light signal head and is configured to be attached to the control light signal head the signal head detector is monitoring, and is not in data communication with the control light signal head that the signal head detector is monitoring;
• a gateway device and a server system, wherein:
• the gateway devices is in data communication with each of the one or more signal head detectors and that receives, from the communication device of each signal head detector, the communication signal and transmits the received communication signals to a server system,
• the server system in data communication with the gateway device and one or more additional gateway devices, wherein each of the one or more additional gateway devices also receive communication signals from respective signal head detectors, wherein the server system:
• receives, from each gateway device, data that uniquely identifies each of the signal head detectors, and for each signal head detector, a status of each light of the control light signal head of the signal head detector;
• maps each control light signal head to the unique identifier in mapping data;
• and
• determines, based on the data received from the gateway devices over a time period, light pattern statistics of the control light signal heads for the time period.

A control light sensing system, comprising:

• one or more signal head detectors, each signal head detector comprising:
• an image sensing apparatus that captures images of one or more of the lights of a control light signal head;
• a processor in data communication with the image sensing apparatus and that receives the images generated by the light sensing apparatus and processes the images and generates an output;
• and
• a communication device in data communication with the processor and that generates and transmits a communication signal encoding the output generated by the processor;
• wherein each of the one or more signal head detectors is separate from the control light signal head and is configured to be attached to the control light signal head the signal head detector is monitoring, and is not in data communication with the control light signal head that the signal head detector is monitoring;
• wherein:
• the image sensing apparatus comprises a single image sensor that captures an image of each of the lights of a control light signal head;
• and
• the processor processes the image captured by the single image sensor and determines, from the image, an activation status of each light depicted in each image and generates, as the output, data encoding the activation status of each light depicted in each image;
• and
• further comprising a server system in data communication each of the one or more signal head detectors, wherein the server system:
• receives, from each signal head detector, data that uniquely identifies each of the signal head detectors, and for each signal head detector, the data encoding the activation status of each light depicted in each image;
• maps each control light signal head to the unique identifier in mapping data;
• and
• determines, based on the activation status of each light depicted in each image over a time period, light pattern statistics of the control light signal heads for the time period.

A control light sensing system, comprising:

• one or more signal head detectors, each signal head detector comprising:
• an image sensing apparatus that captures images of one or more of the lights of a control light signal head;
• a processor in data communication with the image sensing apparatus and that receives the images generated by the light sensing apparatus and processes the images and generates an output;
• and
• a communication device in data communication with the processor and that generates and transmits a communication signal encoding the output generated by the processor;
• wherein each of the one or more signal head detectors is separate from the control light signal head and is configured to be attached to the control light signal head the signal head detector is monitoring, and is not in data communication with the control light signal head that the signal head detector is monitoring;
• further comprising a server system in data communication each of the one or more signal head detectors, wherein the server system:
• receives, from each signal head detector, data that uniquely identifies each of the signal head detectors, and for each signal head detector, the images;
• maps each control light signal head to the unique identifier in mapping data;
• processes each compressed image to determine an activation status of each light depicted in each image;
• and
• determines, based on the activation status of each light depicted in each image over a time period, light pattern statistics of the control light signal heads for the time period.