KR20010070744A - Method and apparatus of vehicles' resources management for searching criminal vehicles in automation and traffic control - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and an apparatus for managing vehicle resources for traffic control and automatic search of criminal vehicles are provided which is set around a driving lane of a road to analyzes video signals of vehicles passing through a supervision area to store number plate, and extracts and stores video information of a person in a criminal vehicle to provide the video information as materials for arresting criminals. CONSTITUTION: A video signal of a vehicle passing a searching area is obtained. Then, the obtained video signal is analyzed to extract the plate of the vehicle and the vehicle number is converted into characters. Materials are exchanged with another system to obtain criminal vehicle lists. The vehicle number is stored and the criminal vehicle lists are searched to judge if the vehicle is a criminal vehicle or not. A vehicle judged to be a criminal vehicle is reported and other arrangements are performed.

Description

Vehicle Resource Management Method and Apparatus for Traffic Control and Automatic Detection of Criminal Vehicles {METHOD AND APPARATUS OF VEHICLES 'RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FOR SEARCHING CRIMINAL VEHICLES IN AUTOMATION AND TRAFFIC CONTROL}

The present invention is a device for recognizing a license plate of a vehicle passing through a monitoring area such as a highway and a major national road, a business method using the recognized vehicle number (BM: BUSINESS METHOD), and a method of implementing the system for enabling the aforementioned business (PM). PROCESS METHOD), and more specifically, automatic vehicle inquiry and classification of criminal vehicles, automatic reporting of identified crime vehicles, real-time tracking of the movement route of vehicles of interest, access control of public institutions for tax unpaid vehicles, vehicle traffic statistics investigation, etc. The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for implementing a vehicle resource management system for processing various vehicle information to enable various services.

In general, the police officer (or combat police) stops a passing vehicle, checks the number of the vehicle visually, and checks the presence of a criminal vehicle through a radio in the case of a checkup or search conducted for crime prevention and criminal arrest. have.

However, such conventional check and search methods take too much manpower and time to search for flooding vehicles, so the vehicle inquiry rate of vehicles passing through the checkpoints is falling significantly. It was poor.

In addition, despite the explosive increase of various crimes using vehicles, the reality that there is no advanced system capable of efficiently tracking the place and the movement route of crime vehicles has many problems in scientific investigation for crime prevention and civil stability.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems described above, is installed around the vehicle driving line of highways and major national roads to analyze the image signal of the vehicle passing through the monitoring area to recognize the license plate of the vehicle, converts the characters Save and convert the converted vehicle number, search for and compare the list of crime vehicles legally obtained from the police traffic control center (or DATABASE of the traffic situation room and vehicle registration office), and automatically detect and report the crime vehicles among the passing vehicles. The vehicle's movement information that enables traffic administration and efficient and scientific investigation by extracting and storing person's image information of the criminal vehicle and providing it as data for criminal arrest and displaying the movement route data of the crime vehicle on the police board. The purpose is to provide a method and apparatus for obtaining data.

The present invention for achieving the above object, a) obtaining a video signal of the vehicle passing through the search area; b) extracting a license plate by analyzing the acquired video signal, and recognizing, converting and characterizing the license plate number; c) exchanging data with other systems to obtain a list of criminal vehicles; d) storing the characterized vehicle number and retrieving a list of criminal vehicles to determine whether the vehicle is a criminal vehicle; And e) performing a crime vehicle appearance report and other measures on a vehicle classified as a crime vehicle according to a predetermined environment value.

In addition, the present invention for achieving the above object is a means of acquiring or modulating information of various types attempted by a third party having the purpose of transmission error and malignancy of DATA that can occur in steps (c) and (e) The data is transmitted by an algorithm for protecting the data.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a vehicle resource management apparatus and a peripheral apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a block diagram of a system for finding and tracking a criminal vehicle to which the present invention is applied.

3 is a system configuration diagram for the access restriction of tax unpaid vehicles to which the present invention is applied;

4 is a database structure diagram to which the present invention is applied

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101: highway and major national road 102: highway toll gate

103: search area 104: vehicles passing through the search area

105: police vehicle 106: police command network (wireless communication)

107 ~ 109: transmission path (dedicated line or PSTN) 110: acquired vehicle information storage medium

120: computer for data processing 130: license plate detection and recognition device

140: CCD camera 150: vehicle registration office

160: List of crime vehicles of the National Police Agency

170: police department situation room (demand information on the appearance of crime vehicles)

180: Broadcasting company (Traffic Information Demand Office)

210: city, county, ward office 220: court

230: vehicle access vehicle blocking device 300: vehicle resource management system

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a system structural diagram of a vehicle resource management apparatus and a peripheral apparatus to which the present invention is applied, information of a passing vehicle obtained from a vehicle license plate detection and recognition apparatus 130 and a vehicle resource management system 300 in the road network 101. Data processing computer 120 for searching and searching the list of crime vehicles provided from the.

The data processing computer 120 takes appropriate countermeasures according to the result of the matching and searching, and continuously accumulates the vehicle number information of the passing vehicle, and accumulates the accumulated information to the vehicle resource management system 300 at a predetermined period or when necessary. By transmitting, the vehicle resource management system 300 can generate useful traffic situation information by counting and analyzing the movement status of vehicles collected from each region.

In addition, the traffic situation information generated (produced) as described above is provided to the police station situation room 170 or traffic information broadcasting company 180, which is an information source, to charge a price for providing information on traffic situation information to enable a new value-added business. do.

FIG. 2 is a structural diagram of a crime vehicle classification system for finding and automatically reporting and tracking a criminal vehicle in a road network or a search area where a vehicle is frequently accessed. The toll 102 or an arbitrary point in the road network 101 is shown in FIG. When the vehicle 104 passes through the search area 103 installed in the vehicle, the CCD camera 140 captures an image of the passing vehicle, and the vehicle number recognition device 130 detects the number of the vehicle.

The data processing computer 120 compares the detection result of the vehicle number recognition device 140 with the crime vehicle data obtained from the National Police Agency DB 160 and reads the crime vehicle of the passing vehicle 104. As a result, when classified as a crime vehicle, according to the type of the crime vehicle and the given processing criteria, the police station emergency room 170 automatically reports the location of the appearance of the crime vehicle and the data for the arrest of the criminal (the vehicle's progress direction, the passenger's portrait image, the vehicle). Information, etc ..).

The police station situation room 170 receives an instruction for arresting a criminal vehicle through the police command network 106 on the basis of the movement route of the vehicle transmitted at the same time as the crime vehicle appearance report is received. The police vehicle 105 can easily arrest the criminal vehicle or secure a new recruit of a criminal by waiting at the next passing position of the criminal vehicle.

In addition, scientific investigations are possible by analyzing the accumulated data provided from multiple systems installed at the junctions, intersections, and access roads of the road when the private investigation is needed, and displaying the movement route and the main activity area of the criminal vehicle as a distribution map.

3 is a public institution access control system to which the present invention is applied, obtains a vehicle number of an access vehicle through a camera installed in the doorway 102 and a vehicle number recognition device 130, and stores the tax in the DB of the vehicle registration office 150. Search the record of the delinquent vehicle to check whether the delinquent vehicle is delinquent, and if it is classified as the delinquent vehicle, automatically activate the breaker for access control or notify the manager of the audible alarm and the delinquent fact and take appropriate action. There is a function that can be taken, and by leasing the device of such a function, it is possible to generate a new operating profit by calculating the number of caught vehicles among passing vehicles and charging a certain rate of service.

On the other hand, in public institutions (city, county, ward office, etc.), information on the delinquency of various utilities and taxes is registered in the vehicle DB of the vehicle registration office 150, and the HOST COMPUTER (120) ), It is possible to search for delinquent vehicles.

In addition, it is expected to contribute to the increase of revenue by inducing a disadvantage for the intentional bad delinquents by controlling the movement of the vehicle in connection with the present system implemented on the road network as needed.

4 is a basic database structure diagram (FIG. 4B) and a search area for crime vehicle information legally obtained from the vehicle registration office 150 and the police agency 160 in the vehicle resource management system 300 to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 4A is a database structure diagram of the passing vehicle that is obtained primarily in the step of acquiring the vehicle number of the passing vehicle.

As described in detail above, the present invention provides a function of automatically reading a crime vehicle for a vehicle passing through a search area to which the present invention is applied in an area where a road network and a vehicle are frequently accessed, and automatically reporting the result to a police station situation room. It not only improves the enforcement function for criminal vehicles, but also reduces the work load of front line police departments for inspection and search, analyzes accumulated data on passing vehicles found at multiple points and processes the data to process the specific vehicle's movement path and behavior. It can be applied to various purposes such as scientific investigation, traffic statistics survey and traffic situation analysis.

In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention are disclosed for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art will be able to various modifications, changes, additions, etc. within the spirit and scope of the present invention, such modifications and modifications belong to the following claims You will have to look.

Claims (4)

a) obtaining, by the information processing computer 130, the vehicle number passing through the search area from the vehicle number recognition device 140; b) accessing the vehicle information database of the vehicle registration office 150, recording the arrears and offenses, at a national agency related to taxation and law enforcement, such as city, county, ward 210 and court 220; c) legally acquiring information on the criminal vehicle from the vehicle registration database of the police agency 160 or the vehicle registration office 150 in the vehicle resource management system 300; And d) searching for and comparing the number of the passing vehicle obtained in step (a) with a database obtained and documented in step (c) to determine whether the vehicle is a crime vehicle; e) providing the traffic situation information and the crime vehicle appearance information to the police station situation room 170 and the traffic information broadcasting service provider 180, which are information sources, according to the result determined in the step (d); And f) A method for implementing a vehicle number recognition device and a criminal vehicle search and classification system comprising the step of automatically performing a process such as controlling the automatic access blocking device 230 of [2]. The method of claim 1, If the determination result in step (d) indicates that the vehicle is a crime vehicle, the first image is reproduced, the person image of the passenger of the crime vehicle is secured, recorded in the passing vehicle information storage medium 110, and the person image is reported to the police station emergency room 170. Method of implementing the system, characterized in that to facilitate the criminal arrest by automatically transmitting the. a) means for the information processing computer 130 to obtain the number of the vehicle which has passed the search area from the vehicle number recognition apparatus 140; b) means for accessing the vehicle information database of the vehicle registration office 150, recording delinquency and offenses, at the national authorities involved in taxation and law enforcement, such as city, county, ward 210 and court 220; c) a means for the vehicle resource management system 300 to obtain and document a criminal vehicle list from the police agency 160 and the vehicle registration office 150 through the transmission path 107; d) means for determining whether or not a crime vehicle of a passing vehicle is obtained by searching and classifying the data obtained by the means (a) and (c); e) means for providing traffic situation information and crime vehicle appearance information to the police station situation room 170, traffic information broadcasting service provider 180, etc., as a source of information, according to the result determined by the means (d); And f) Criminal vehicle classification system and delinquent vehicle access control system, characterized in that for controlling the peripheral device (230) of [2]. The method of claim 3, wherein The vehicle resource management system 300 continuously accumulates information on passing vehicles stored in the information processing computer 120 and the passing vehicle information storage medium 110 and accumulates information on passing vehicles in a search area periodically or as needed. The vehicle resource management system 300 aggregates the cumulative information obtained from each region, analyzes traffic statistics and analyzes the movement route and behavior radius of the vehicle under investigation, and displays it in the form of a distribution map on the topographic map (postal map). Information analysis means and vehicle resource management system, characterized in that.