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US 2010/0245125 A1Published application
Systems and Methods For Surveillance and Traffic Monitoring (Claim Set I)
AssigneeLasercraft, Inc.
InventorsCharles K. Wike, JR., Jeremy D. Hood, Donald R. Wyman, Robert P. Burke
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Abstract
System, methods, and computer program products are provided for surveillance, traffic monitoring, and red light enforcement. In one embodiment, the system may monitor zones of interest; capture, time stamp, and store images of the zones of interest; determine that an event has occurred within one of the zones of interest; and request the stored images of the zone of interest during the time the event occurred.
Claims34
A system comprising:
- a signal monitoring computing device comprising one or more processors configured to
- monitor the states of a traffic signal, wherein a first state indicates that the traffic signal is displaying a green signal and a second state indicates that the traffic signal is displaying a red signal;
- and
- generate and transmit a red signal message indicating that the traffic signal has changed to the second state of the traffic signal;
- a first imaging device configured to
- capture a first set of images of a first surveillance zone during the first and second states of the traffic signal;
- time stamp the first set of captured images respectively in accordance with a corresponding network time;
- and
- store the first set of captured images in a temporary memory storage area of the first imaging device;
- a trigger monitoring computing device comprising one or more processors configured to
- determine when a vehicle enters a violation zone, wherein the violation zone is within the first surveillance zone;
- generate and transmit an enter message indicating (a) that a vehicle has entered the violation zone and (b) the time the vehicle entered the violation zone in accordance with the corresponding network time;
- determine when the vehicle exits the violation zone;
- and
- generate and transmit an exit message indicating (a) that the vehicle has exited the violation zone and (b) the time the vehicle exited the violation zone in accordance with the corresponding network time;
- and
- a control computing device comprising one or more memory storage areas and one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to
- request a subset of the first set of images of the first surveillance zone from the temporary memory storage area of the first imaging device that were captured during the first and second states of the traffic signal and store the first set of images in the one or more memory storage areas of the control computing device.
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A system comprising:
- a signal monitoring computing device comprising one or more processors configured to
- monitor the states of a traffic signal, wherein a first state indicates that the traffic signal is displaying a green signal and a second state indicates that the traffic signal is displaying a red signal;
- and
- generate and transmit a red signal message indicating that the traffic signal has changed to the second state of the traffic signal;
- a first imaging device configured to
- capture a first set of images of a first surveillance zone during the first and second states of the traffic signal;
- time stamp the first set of captured images respectively in accordance with a corresponding network time;
- and
- store the first set of captured images in a temporary memory storage area of the first imaging device;
- and
- a control computing device comprising one or more memory storage areas and one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to
- determine when a vehicle enters a violation zone in accordance with the corresponding network time, wherein the violation zone is within the first surveillance zone;
- determine when the vehicle exits the violation zone in accordance with the corresponding network time;
- and
- request a subset of the first set of images of the first surveillance zone from the temporary memory storage area of the first imaging device that were captured during the first and second states of the traffic signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.