Vehicle headlight state monitoring methods, systems and processor-readable media

A system for monitoring usage of headlights of a vehicle, said system comprising:

• a processor;
• a data bus coupled to said processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, said computer-usable medium being coupled to said data bus, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for:
• converting an image of a vehicle into a grayscale image via a gray scale converting unit;
• processing said grayscale image via an image-processing unit and a headlight region identifying unit to locate a front license plate of said vehicle to identify an area of said vehicle where said headlights are most likely to be located, said headlight region identifying unit comprising said gray scale converting unit;
• and
• comparing an average digital count with respect to a brightness of said headlight region to an average digital count with respect to a brightness of a plurality of parts of said vehicle and a background region to determine an ON status and an OFF status of the headlights associated with said vehicle.

A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a process for monitoring usage of headlights of a vehicle, said code comprising code to:

• convert an image of a vehicle into a grayscale image via a gray scale converting unit;
• process said grayscale image via an image-processing unit and a headlight region identifying unit to locate a front license plate of said vehicle to identify an area of said vehicle where said headlights are most likely to be located, said headlight region identifying unit comprising said gray scale converting unit;
• and
• compare an average digital count with respect to a brightness of said headlight region to an average digital count with respect to a brightness of a plurality of parts of said vehicle and a background region to determine an ON status and an OFF status of the headlights associated with said vehicle.