KR100609431B1 - Car in-and-out management system with electric sign funcioning as a light - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electric bulletin board and a vehicle access management system that uses both an electric bulletin board and an illumination board to display information on a vehicle while simultaneously using the LED electric bulletin board as an illumination of a vehicle recognition camera. According to the present invention, when the license plate of the vehicle is photographed by a LPR (Licence Plate Recognition) camera 140, the necessary lighting is provided through the electric bulletin board 120 which is constantly emitted, and the electric bulletin board 120 after the photographing is a license plate of the vehicle. It is characterized in that the information is configured to allow the driver to enter safely and conveniently by posting the information identified by the recognition.

Electric bulletin board, vehicle recognition, LED, license plate, LPR

Description

Car in-and-out management system with electric sign funcioning as a light}

1 is a perspective view of a monitoring device according to the prior art.

Figure 2a is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an all-in-one bulletin board and lighting vehicle access management system according to the present invention.

Figure 2b is an illustration of a monitoring server according to the present invention.

Figure 3a is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the monitoring device according to the present invention.

Figure 3b is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the monitoring device according to the present invention.

Figure 3c is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the monitoring apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the operation at the time of vehicle entry of the electric bulletin board and lighting combined vehicle access management system according to the present invention.

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1: recognizer 10: monitoring device

20: illuminator 30: support

40: LPR camera 100: recognizer

110: monitoring device 120: electric bulletin board

130: support 140: LPR camera

141: LED lamp 150: monitoring server

160: roof coil

The present invention relates to an all-in-one vehicle access control system with both an electric bulletin board and a light, and more particularly, an LED electric bulletin board and an electric vehicle with both an electric bulletin board and an electric vehicle for posting information on a vehicle while using it as an illumination of a vehicle recognition camera. It relates to a management system.

BACKGROUND ART With the development of information communication, control devices, and display devices, technology for transmitting and recognizing image information, accurately controlling and displaying in real time, has become popular. In particular, a camera for photographing a license plate with a camera in a vehicle recognition system, and a license plate character recognition program for recognizing this and outputting information on a vehicle are already common.

On the other hand, license plate recognition cameras (hereinafter referred to as LPR (License Plate Recognition) camera) for photographing license plates are analog and digital type, but digital type uses the instant shutter method of lighting but it is expensive and is not generally used. Low cost analog type is mainly used. Since analog cameras require a separate lighting device to operate, an illuminator is usually installed adjacent to the LPR camera and configured to irradiate light toward the vehicle at every entry of the vehicle.

1 shows a recognizer according to this prior art. According to this, the recognizer 1 is composed of the monitoring device 10, the support 30, the LPR camera 40 and the illuminator 20. The monitoring device 10 is supported by the support 30 and is located at a height suitable for photographing. The LPR camera 40 is installed in the front center of the monitoring device 10, and the illuminator 20 is installed around it.

However, when the LPR camera 40 is photographed as in the prior art, when the vehicle is turned off, the light is suddenly irradiated when the vehicle is turned off to obstruct the driver's view. In particular, in this case, not only the situation that scares the driver psychologically, but also the front is not seen well after the lights are turned off, there is a problem that causes a great obstacle to safe driving.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to secure the light required for the operation of the license plate recognition camera and at the same time the driver and the vehicle can be used both safely and conveniently It is to provide a management system.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an electric bulletin board and light vehicle access management system that provides a more convenient access method by posting information on each vehicle in real time.

The electric bulletin board and lighting access control system according to the present invention is equipped with an electric bulletin board that posts a text while providing the necessary lighting for the LPR camera using an LPR camera and an LED lamp which recognize and photograph the license plate of the vehicle. And a monitoring apparatus for transmitting the image captured by the LPR camera to the outside and a license plate image of the vehicle photographed by the LPR camera to recognize the vehicle number and output the information of the vehicle to a display device including an electric bulletin board. Characterized in that comprises a monitoring server.

At this time, the monitoring server, data input means for receiving the license plate image data of the vehicle, image processing means for recognizing the vehicle number by converting it into text data based on the image data input by the data input means, the recognized vehicle number Storage and processing means for which the information about the vehicle is retrieved and stored, and the output means for transmitting the information about the vehicle to the display device.

In addition, the electronic bulletin board may be configured to post the vehicle number of the vehicle having a license plate photographed by the LPR camera.

In addition, the electric bulletin board may be configured to post a parking fee of a vehicle having a license plate photographed by the LPR camera.

Hereinafter will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings, all-in-one bulletin board and light combined billboard and light vehicle access management system according to the present invention.

Figure 2a is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an all-in-one bulletin board and lighting vehicle access management system according to the present invention. Accordingly, the electric bulletin board and light vehicle access management system according to the present invention is largely composed of a monitoring device 110 and a monitoring server 150.

The monitoring device 110 provides an LPR camera 140 for recognizing and photographing a license plate of a vehicle, and an electric bulletin board 120 for posting a text while providing necessary lighting for the LPR camera 140 using an LED lamp 121. It includes, and transmits the image taken through the LPR camera 140 to the monitoring server 150.

The monitoring server 150 receives the license plate image of the vehicle photographed by the LPR camera 140, recognizes the vehicle number, and outputs the information of the vehicle to the display device including the electronic billboard 120.

On the other hand, it is obvious that the blocking device for blocking the entrance of the vehicle can be further included in the conventional art.

2B illustrates monitoring server 150 in more detail. At this time, the monitoring server 150 is composed of a data input means 152, an image processing means 153, a storage and processing means 154, an output means 155, as shown in FIG.

The data input unit 152 receives image data of the license plate of the vehicle photographed by the monitoring apparatus 110 and information data about the vehicle and transmits the image data to the image processing unit 153.

The image processing means 153 operates a license plate character recognition program that converts the text data based on the image data input by the data input means 152 into text data, thereby recognizing the vehicle number, and converting the text data of the vehicle number into a text message relating to the vehicle. The data is transmitted to the storage and processing means 154 together with the data.

In the storage and processing means 154, the license plate is photographed to store information about the vehicle in which the vehicle number is recognized. The information stored at this time may be a vehicle number, a date, a time, and the like, and the information about the vehicle is processed using the information, for example, the parking fee is calculated.

The output means 155 transmits the vehicle number stored in the storage and processing means 154 and information about the vehicle to the display device in real time. At this time, each means may be composed of known technical means that can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art.

Meanwhile, FIGS. 3A, 3B, and 3C are perspective views illustrating an embodiment of a license plate recognizer according to the present invention, respectively. However, variations of the type of information posted on the bulletin board and the position of the bulletin board and the LPR camera mounted on the front of the recognizer belong to the scope of the present invention and may be variously modified in addition to the following embodiments.

According to this, the recognizer 100 is composed of a monitoring device 110, a support 130, an LPR camera 140, an electric bulletin board 120.

Surveillance device 110 is positioned to be suitable for shooting by the support 130. The LPR camera 140 is mounted on the upper right side of the front surface of the monitoring device 110, and the electric bulletin board 120 is installed at the lower end of the front surface of the monitoring device 110. At this time, the installation position of the LPR camera 140 and the electric bulletin board 120 can be installed anywhere in the monitoring device 110 as long as possible to shoot the LPR camera 140.

The LPR camera 140 used in the present invention is an analog camera that requires lighting, and various methods of recognizing a license plate are known, but it is irrelevant to what method is taken, but is typically taken with the LPR camera 140. An image is transmitted to a monitoring server (not shown) by a coaxial cable and stored in a dedicated DB, and the stored file is recognized by an algorithm of a license plate character recognition program. At this time, the processing time is processed in real time within 1 second.

Since the LPR camera 140 requires more than a certain level of brightness in order to photograph the vehicle, in the present invention, a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) lamps are used as illuminators for irradiating light to the vehicle at an adjacent position of the LPR camera 140. There is provided an electric bulletin board (120) used. The electric bulletin board 120 is an electric bulletin board 120 in which a large number of LED lamps 121 are installed on the display board. The electric bulletin board 120 emits light according to an instruction of a monitoring server (not shown). The electric bulletin board 120 posts information about a vehicle. In the case of a parking lot, a general entrance notice is posted when a vehicle does not enter, and a vehicle number is displayed when entering a vehicle, and a parking fee is displayed when entering a vehicle. do.

Hereinafter, look at the function and operation of the electric bulletin board and light vehicle access management system according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the operation at the time of vehicle entry of the electric bulletin board and lighting combined vehicle access management system according to the present invention. When the vehicle enters safely along the guide letter regarding the vehicle entry of the electric bulletin board 120 which constantly posts the guide letter, the loop coil 160 which is a magnetic sensor installed on the road at a certain position before passing through the monitoring device. The entry of the vehicle is detected, and the license plate of the vehicle into which the LPR camera 140 enters is photographed.

The photographed image data is transferred to a monitoring server (not shown). The monitoring server recognizes a vehicle number and stores information about the vehicle, and simultaneously displays information about the entered vehicle on the electric bulletin board 120 and a monitor for a manager ( (Not shown). In this case, if the vehicle is normally entered, necessary information about a vehicle number or a parking area designation is received, and if the vehicle is advanced, information about a parking fee is informed.

When the vehicle enters, the LPR camera 140 photographs the license plate of the vehicle, transmits the photographed image to the monitoring server 150, and when the image of the license plate is transmitted to the monitoring server 150, the monitoring server 150. ) Recognizes the transmitted image and extracts the vehicle number and its information, and transmits the extracted information to the supervisor monitor 151 and the electric bulletin board 120, which are display devices, and instructs the breaker to open and close. Therefore, the manager can see the information transmitted to the monitor 151, the information transmitted to the electric bulletin board 120 is seen by the driver of the vehicle, the breaker is activated.

On the other hand, the electric bulletin board and the combined light board and light vehicle access management system according to the present invention can be applied to a variety of apartment complexes, buildings, parking lots, toll gates, parking prohibited areas, car theaters, driving fast food restaurants, especially apartments However, it is expected that many applications will be made in building security systems or parking lots.

Effects of the electric bulletin board and lighting combined vehicle access management system according to the present invention made as described above are as follows.

First, the electric bulletin board is constantly posting general guidance phrases, so that LPR camera can shoot at any time with the brightness generated when the guidance phrases without additional lighting.

Second, the driver's vision is not obscured, which helps prevent accidents and can be induced immediately and conveniently.

Although the invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments mentioned above, many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to cover such modifications and variations as fall within the true scope of the invention.

Claims (4)

delete An LPR camera 140 for recognizing and photographing a license plate of a vehicle, an electric bulletin board 120 for posting a vehicle number, and a monitoring device 110 for transmitting an image photographed through the LPR camera 140 to the outside; A vehicle access management system comprising a monitoring server 150 that receives a license plate image of the vehicle photographed by the LPR camera 140, recognizes a vehicle number, and outputs the vehicle number of the vehicle to the electric bulletin board 120. To The electric bulletin board is provided at a position adjacent to the LPR camera 140 to post a character using a plurality of LED lamps 121, and to provide the light emitted by the LPR camera 140 to the light emitted by the image. Will be The monitoring server 150, Data input means 152 which receives the photographed license plate image data of the vehicle and information about the vehicle; Image processing means (153) for recognizing a vehicle number and transmitting information on the vehicle together with the vehicle number by converting it into text data based on the image data input by the data input means (152); Storage and processing means (154) in which information about a vehicle having a recognized vehicle number is stored and processed; All-in-one bulletin board and lighting vehicle access management system comprising an output means (155) for transmitting the information about the vehicle to a display device. delete The method according to claim 2, The electric bulletin board 120 and the vehicle access management system for both electric bulletin board and lighting, characterized in that the parking fee of the vehicle having a license plate photographed by the LPR camera 140 is further posted.

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