EP1397785A1 - Installations et procedes de simplification de l'application basee sur la reconnaissance optique de caracteres dans le cas de systemes automatiques de peage - Google Patents

Installations et procedes de simplification de l'application basee sur la reconnaissance optique de caracteres dans le cas de systemes automatiques de peage

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EP1397785A1
EP1397785A1 EP02747216A EP02747216A EP1397785A1 EP 1397785 A1 EP1397785 A1 EP 1397785A1 EP 02747216 A EP02747216 A EP 02747216A EP 02747216 A EP02747216 A EP 02747216A EP 1397785 A1 EP1397785 A1 EP 1397785A1
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Gila Janos
Wolfgang Konrad
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
    • G07B15/06—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
    • G07B15/063—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/01—Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled
    • G08G1/017—Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled identifying vehicles

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  • the invention relates to a method for monitoring the correct operation of a tolling device of a vehicle with a vehicle registration number.
  • the invention further relates to a monitoring system for monitoring the correct operation of a tolling device of a vehicle license plate.
  • OCR optical character recognition
  • the toll debt is settled on an ongoing basis via communication with the toll infrastructure or through facilities similar to prepaid cards.
  • the identity of the vehicle is not known in the latter.
  • the proper payment of the toll debt is to be monitored or a potential toll bouncer identified.
  • a system of the type mentioned at the outset is described, for example, in WO 99/66455.
  • a device for checking the proper operation of a tolling device is arranged on the roadside, the tolling device being arranged in a vehicle with a license plate passing through the device and communication taking place between the toll device and the device. If the device recognizes on the basis of the communication with the tolling device that the tolling device is not being operated properly, the number plate of the vehicle is recorded by means of a recording device.
  • a disadvantage of this device is that a communication link must be established between the toll device and the device, which is why the manufacture of this device is associated with high costs. It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a way which makes it possible to recognize toll bouncers in a simple and inexpensive manner or to recognize the proper functioning of the toll collection device.
  • This object is achieved according to the invention with a method of the type mentioned in the introduction in that at least one optical pattern / signal which can be predetermined and which is characteristic of the operating state of the tolling device is generated in the area of the vehicle front.
  • the predefinable optical pattern / signal is generated by means of at least one light-emitting diode.
  • the optical pattern / signal is an infrared pattern / signal, the light-emitting diode being an infrared light-emitting diode.
  • optical pattern / signal is detected by means of an optically sensitive sensor.
  • the optical pattern / signal can be detected using an infrared camera.
  • the license plate of the vehicle can be detected when it passes a control point.
  • a device of the type mentioned at the outset is particularly suitable for carrying out the method according to the invention, which is set up to set up in the area of the vehicle front at least one specifiable optical pattern / signal which is characteristic of the operating state of the tolling device.
  • At least one light-emitting diode is expediently provided for generating the predefinable optical pattern / signal.
  • the device is set up to generate an infrared pattern / signal, wherein an infrared light-emitting diode can be provided for generating the infrared pattern / signal.
  • the monitoring system is advantageously set up to detect the optical pattern / signal by means of an optically sensitive sensor.
  • the monitoring system can be set up to detect the optical pattern / signal by means of an infrared camera.
  • the monitoring system is set up to detect the license plate of the vehicle when it passes a control point when a pattern / signal is generated which corresponds to improper operation of the tolling device.
  • FIG. 1 shows a system for recording and paying tolls with a tolling device arranged on board the vehicle for determining the tolls;
  • FIG. 2 shows the tolling device from FIG. 1 in more detail and a reader for booking a user authorization onto the tolling device;
  • FIG. 3 shows a magnetic card with a code for booking a user authorization onto the tolling device
  • FIG. 4 shows a toll system with a billing center external to the vehicle in addition to the toll payment device internal to the vehicle;
  • Fig. 6 is a display arranged in the windshield area of a vehicle for the enforcement display.
  • a toll system SYS for locating a vehicle FAR can have a position detection system PSE, for example the known “Global Positioning System” or GPS system for short.
  • the vehicles FA1, FA2 can have the tolling devices BEI, BE2, which are set up to receive data from the position determination system PSE and to calculate the location coordinates OKO of the vehicle FA1, FA2 therefrom.
  • the route STR traveled can be determined on the basis of the location coordinates OKO, for example on the basis of a signature SIG calculated from the location coordinates OKO.
  • the route STR traveled by a vehicle FA1, FA2 is subject to toll, it can be checked whether the vehicle FA1, FA2 is authorized to use the route subject to toll.
  • the user authorization BER can be implemented, for example, as a credit GUT and stored in a memory SPR of the tolling device BEI, wherein this tolling device BEI can be set up to calculate the toll fees GEB incurred and to be debited from the credit GUT. If the GUT credit has been used up and there is no further use authorization BER, the vehicle FAR may no longer use toll roads STR.
  • the toll payment device BEI with a user authorization BER stored in it is referred to below as a prepaid card WER.
  • the BER user authorization does not only have to be a GUT credit.
  • the user authorization BER can also be implemented, for example, as a time card ZEI stored in the memory SPR of the prepaid card WER, which entitles the user to use predefinable, toll roads STR within a certain period of time, etc. (FIG. 2).
  • the type of user authorization BER desired by a vehicle owner can be transmitted, for example, as a code COD into the toll payment device BEV.
  • a predefinable code CO1, CO2, CO3 can be assigned to each type of user authorization BER in a storage unit SP1 of the tolling device BEV (FIG. 2).
  • a first code CO1 can be assigned to a time card ZEI for all toll roads STR in a predeterminable area, while another code CO2 tops up a GUT credit by a predeterminable amount, or a third code CO3 increases a route credit SGH by a predeterminable amount etc.
  • the control STE of the tolling device BEV can identify and activate or activate the corresponding user authorization BER by comparing the code COD acquired by the user with the codes CO1, CO2, CO3 stored in the storage unit SP1.
  • the code COD can be transmitted, for example, by means of an input device EIV which is connected to the value card WEK in a line or non-line manner.
  • Examples of a wired connection between the input device EIV and the tolling device BEV would be copper wire, glass fiber, etc.
  • Examples of a non-wired connection are radio, infrared transmission, laser, etc.
  • the code COl, CO2, CO3 can be encrypted and transferred to the WEK prepaid card in a form that cannot be recognized by the user.
  • the code COD can be stored on a mobile data carrier.
  • the input device EIV is designed as a reading device LES for mobile data carriers in order to transmit the user authorization BER or the code COD into the tolling device.
  • the reading device LES can be set up to end the transfer process of the code COD into the toll payment device BEV with a cancellation of the mobile data carrier.
  • This cancellation can consist, for example, in that the information contained on the mobile data carrier is deleted by the reading device or in that a value WER, which indicates the validity of the mobile data carrier, is set from "valid" to "invalid" (FIG. 3).
  • a communication connection can also be established between the tolling device BE2 and a billing center ABZ, in which case the user authorization BER can be provided in the billing center, preferably in the form of an account KON assigned to the vehicle, from which the toll charges incurred GEB can be debited.
  • the tolling device BE2 which can exchange data with the accounting center ABZ, is referred to as the calculation unit OBU.
  • a monitoring system UES for monitoring the proper operation of a tolling device BEV has a control ST1 and a display DIP connected to it, which is set up to display a predefinable pattern MUS (FIG. 6).
  • the optical pattern MUS depends on the current operating state of the toll device BEI, BE2, z. B. whether a valid user authorization BER is available or whether the tolling device BEI, BE2 is switched on.
  • the control ST1 can monitor the state of the user authorization BER in the prepaid card WEK or in the billing center ABZ, and whether the tolling device BEI, BE2 is switched on or off.
  • the control ST1 controls the display DIP as a function of the operating state of the tolling device BEI, BE2 on which a pattern MUS corresponding to the current operating state is shown.
  • the display can have DIP light-emitting diodes LED or infrared light-emitting diodes.
  • the calculation unit OBU can be set up to query and save the state of the user authorization BER via a radio network FUN, for example the GSM network, at predefinable time intervals.
  • a radio network FUN for example the GSM network
  • Unauthorized manipulations by the driver on the prepaid card WEK or on the calculation unit OBU can also be detected by the control ST1 of the monitoring system UES assigned to the corresponding vehicle FA1, FA2.
  • the control ST1 of the monitoring system can be set up to display a pattern MUS intended for this purpose on the display, for example a luminous LED, if the wrong code COD for a user authorization BER is entered into the prepaid card WEK.
  • the entry of the ascent or descent on a toll route STR i. H. the toll payment device BEV is activated by the driver of the vehicle FAR using a suitable input device, for example a button on the prepaid card WEK.
  • the control ST1 generates a corresponding optical pattern MUS on the display DIP, for example two illuminated light-emitting diodes LED, while when the value card WEK is switched off, a pattern MUS characterizing this state is generated is generated, for example none of the light emitting diodes LED emits light.
  • the pattern MUS is used to indicate whether the driver of the FAR vehicle is a potential or actual toll bouncer.
  • travel history positions or the signature SIG of the route STR and any information about the time of use can be stored in a memory SP3 of the prepaid card WEK or the accounting center ABZ and, if necessary, for Will be provided. This procedure avoids online communication between the tolling device and the accounting center.
  • the pattern can also be changed externally, for example via a GSM broadcast request.
  • the pattern change can also be region-dependent when using a communication-capable computing unit OBU, or when changing a cell phone cell, via which the broadcast functionality of the cell phone network can be triggered.
  • That the valid pattern, which corresponds to a permissible operating state, is not fixed, but can also be triggered, for example, according to a time grid, position-dependent, or by external events such as the cell radio. This prevents truck drivers from driving around with dummy LED lights and agreeing on the pattern to be set
  • the optical pattern is advantageously represented as an infrared pattern. Infrared patterns can be recognized by cheap interference filters on an infrared camera KAM, with correspondingly high light output of the LEDs, with a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than number plates with purely passive number plate OCR. The detection of some simple patterns is also possible with much higher reliability.
  • the monitoring system UES according to the invention is therefore not used for communication, as in WO 99/66455 mentioned at the outset, but rather serves to reduce the frequency of the more complex and significantly more unreliable number plate OCR under the expected environmental conditions. In the case of centrally performed OCR, this significantly reduces the data volume between the fixed enforcement stations and the OCR center.
  • Mobile monitoring can also be carried out using an infrared camera.
  • preselection can also be carried out via additional LED sources in the visible area.
  • signaling in the visible range can also generally take place.
  • FAR vehicles There are three types of FAR vehicles within the booking area:
  • FAR vehicles without or with an invalid (manipulated) IR / LED signature these are either toll bouncers, as are possible in principle with any automatic toll method; or these are toll participants with defective toll payment devices BEV, or missing or invalid user authorizations BER, for example blocked account KON or used up credit GUT. All of these participants can be recognized at appropriate control stations (fixed or mobile) and treated according to defined rules.
  • the invention makes it possible to ensure that the correct operation of toll collection devices is monitored in a simple manner.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé de surveillance du bon fonctionnement d'un dispositif d'enregistrement de péage (BEV) d'un véhicule (FAR) par une caractéristique véhicule (KEN). Au moins un modèle/signal optique (MUS) déterminable caractéristique du mode de fonctionnement du dispositif d'enregistrement de péage (BEV) est généré au niveau du véhicule (FAR).
EP02747216A 2001-06-12 2002-06-12 Installations et procedes de simplification de l'application basee sur la reconnaissance optique de caracteres dans le cas de systemes automatiques de peage Expired - Lifetime EP1397785B1 (fr)

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AT0091101A AT500811A1 (de) 2001-06-12 2001-06-12 Einrichtungen und methoden zur vereinfachung des ocr-basierten enforcements bei automatischen mautsystemen
PCT/DE2002/002155 WO2002101662A1 (fr) 2001-06-12 2002-06-12 Installations et procedes de simplification de l'application basee sur la reconnaissance optique de caracteres dans le cas de systemes automatiques de peage

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