Patent · US Expired

Integrated traffic light violation citation generation and court date scheduling system

US6188329A · kind A · utility

66Cited by
40References
32Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateNov 22, 1999
Grant dateFeb 13, 2001
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 22, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99948
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system and method for integrating traffic light violation related vehicle information with court date scheduling information, which employs one or more digitized video recordings of alleged violations. The system provides end-to-end violation processing using the digitized video recordings of the event, and using vehicle database information, as may for example be provided from a department of motor vehicles (DMV) database. The system potentially also interfaces to a court date scheduling database, which includes indications of various available times at which hearings regarding traffic violations may be scheduled. A user interface may provide a display of one or more perspectives on the violation event, as well as access to the vehicle and court date scheduling database. An evaluator, for example a police officer, uses the interface to 1) view the recorded views of the event, 2) determine whether a citationable violation has occurred, 3) extract any necessary vehicle identification information from the recording, 4) obtain owner information regarding the vehicle from the vehicle database, based on the extracted vehicle identification, 5) generate a citation with regard to the vi…

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.