Vehicle occupancy verification utilizing occupancy confirmation
AssigneeRideflag Technologies Inc.
InventorsMichel Papineau, Mark Feltham
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Abstract
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. Software and hardware devices are used 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. Biometric signature detection is used 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.
Claims21
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A method of verifying vehicle occupancy, the method comprising:
- capturing, using at least one smart device, at least one of:
- at least one electronic image;
- or
- voices,
- of occupants of a vehicle;
- and
- calculating actual vehicle occupancy at least once before an end of a trip of the vehicle using the at least one electronic image or the voices, wherein calculating the actual vehicle occupancy comprises:
- determining a count of the number of occupants;
- and
- validating the count of the number of occupants, wherein the validating comprises using biometrics to determine that the occupants are real human beings.
A system of verifying vehicle occupancy, the system comprising:
- a data server;
- and
- at least one smart device in communication with the data server,
- wherein the system is configured to:
- capture, using the at least one smart device, at least one of:
- at least one electronic image;
- or
- voices,
- of occupants of a vehicle;
- and
- calculate actual vehicle occupancy at least once before an end of a trip of the vehicle using the at least one electronic image or the voices, wherein calculating the actual vehicle occupancy comprises:
- determining a count of the number of occupants;
- and
- validating the count of the number of occupants, wherein the validating comprises using biometrics to determine that the occupants are real human beings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.