WO1990014640A1 - Vignette de poste de peage traitee par image optique - Google Patents

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WO1990014640A1
WO1990014640A1 PCT/AU1990/000215 AU9000215W WO9014640A1 WO 1990014640 A1 WO1990014640 A1 WO 1990014640A1 AU 9000215 W AU9000215 W AU 9000215W WO 9014640 A1 WO9014640 A1 WO 9014640A1
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voucher
toll gate
toll
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John Leonard Hughes
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Australian Electro Optics Pty Ltd
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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
    • G07B15/02—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems
    • G07B15/04—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems comprising devices to free a barrier, turnstile, or the like
    • 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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  • This invention relates to an optically identifiable voucher system for the activation of toll gates so as to speed up traffic flow and reduce the number of manned booths required on toll ways, said
  • the invention may be installed on roadways, entrances to sport arenas, car parks, entrances to railway stations, airports and shipping terminals, in warehouses and public buildings.
  • 15 voucher may be displayed in a prominent position on vehicles or be hand held, and may be of different sizes for a given optically detectable pattern.
  • the same voucher can be used to enter toll gates of different types at any location where toll ways are in use.
  • the vouchers if pre paid can qualify the purchaser to a given number of 0 toll gate passages at a discount or each passage may be post paid. If an identifiable vehicle passes along a toll way fitted with said invention but does not display said voucher then said illegal toll way user would pay a post dated premium or be barred from using said toll way and directed to a manned pay booth. Due to social liberty 5 arguments, a choice of personalised and non-personalised vouchers
  • SUBSTITUTE SHEET can be made available, the latter being pre paid and all legal toll gate passages not been recorded, by law, so that no check could be made regarding the identity of a particular toll gate user at a particular time at a particular place.
  • Prior art toil gates involved manned booths which either received the toll directly from the user during each passage or indirectly via the user depositing coins or inserting pass-cards into the toll control system to allow access.
  • Prior art toll gates were difficult and expensive to monitor as far as the failure of users to pay the toll was concerned, a situation which led to heavy, and often uneconomical staffing level requirements. Radio controlled prior art
  • neural network computers optical image processing has become a topical art because a computer can now be used to more easily identify an optical image.
  • the neural computer based system has only to be taught how to recognise particular 5 patterns with no need for complex software as is required for expert systems.
  • neural network computers do not suffer from computer viruses.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide an optically identifiable, pre paid voucher for use by toll way users so that said toll way user obtains substantial discounts on the toll gate levies.
  • UBSTITUTE SHEET It is also an object of the invention to provide personalised vouchers so that identified users of toll ways can be billed at a later date.
  • Figure 1 shows a configuration of the toll gate voucher of the invention which can be attached to any vehicle in a position that it can be imaged by a surveillance camera or be hand held and displayed to such a camera.
  • This toll gate voucher has optically distinctive marking including symbols, letters and numbers which can be recognised by the invention.
  • said markings on said toll voucher have to be enhanced, said markings can be made optically fluorescent or can be optically enhanced at specific wavelengths by illumination with selected eye safe lights under all weather and poor lighting conditions.
  • Figure 2 shows the layout of the computer based optical image processing system used to read symbols on said toll voucher in real time so as to activate or not activate a toll gate blocking the pathway of a vehicle.
  • SUBSTITUTE SHEET Figure 3 shows a hand held voucher of the invention being displayed to a surveillance camera mounted on a walk through toll gate.
  • Figure 4 shows the method used to identify a vehicle imaging a toll way which does not possess a valid voucher or no voucher at all, said identification being such so as not to hinder the flow of traffic.
  • Figure 5 shows the use of an eye safe laser to illuminate voucher 1.
  • numeral 1 indicates the toll gate voucher.
  • Numeral 2 indicates optically distinctive markings on voucher 1 to enhance the optical image processing capability of the invention.
  • Numeral 3 indicates another optically distinct marking on 1 which identifies it clearly as a toll gate voucher.
  • Numeral 4 indicates a series of 1 5 letters and numbers which allow the holder of the toll gate voucher to be cleared or identified by the optical image processing capabilities of the present invention.
  • Numeral 5 indicates the period during which the voucher 1 remains valid.
  • voucher 1 is shown attached to a windscreen 2 0 indicated by numeral 6 of a vehicle indicated by numeral 7.
  • the surveillance camera indicated by numeral 8 has a field of view indicated by numeral 9 which allows voucher 1 to be identified by th image data supplied by 8 and the image processing system into which it is connected indicated by numerals 10, 11 and 12 respectively, 10 25 being the multiplexing unit which feeds one or more camera inputs into computer 11 whose outputs in turn activate the recording unit
  • Computer 11 is also connected to an external data base along the link indicated by numeral 13 which connects the invention to a central processing station.
  • Recording unit 12 records the passage of voucher holders and can prevent the passage of non-voucher holders by directing them off the automatic tollway or by identifying their vehicles and billing them at a later time.
  • numeral 14 indicates a toll gate bar which lifts out of the way of the approved voucher holder.
  • Toll bar 14 may take the form of any device which can deter a would be offender from ⁇ o proceeding along the tollway without indirectly upsetting the flow of traffic. It is assumed that the entrance to the automatic toll gate on which the invention is mounted will adequately display warnings to non-voucher holders and be adequately illuminated at whatever optical wavelength or range of optical wavelengths to allow the 1 5 surveillance camera to operate.
  • numeral 15 indicates the voucher holders' hand displaying voucher 1 to the invention.
  • numeral 16 indicates a motor vehicle approaching a toll gate without a valid voucher or with no voucher at all.
  • Cameras so 8 survey the vehicle 16 within their fields of view 9.
  • Information gathered by cameras 9 will then be processed by the invention to identify the type of vehicle involved, its registration number as displayed on its number plates indicated by numerals 17 as well as its colour scheme. This information will be recorded in recording 25 unit 12 and details passed on to the central records office via link
  • numeral 18 indicates the eye safe laser illuminatio
  • the invention has applications for the automatic collection of tolls without interfering with traffic flow under heavy traffic conditions.
  • the invention allows for one or more toll gate fees to be pre paid at a discount where appropriate via the sale of toll vouchers 5 through standard commercial outlets including the local shops.
  • This mode of selling pre paid vouchers provides the toll gate owners with up front cash as well as minimising the need for manned toll gates.
  • the invention provides for a source of illumination light which can enhance the image of the voucher via fluorescence at particular wavelengths to which cameras 8 are sensitive.
  • the illuminators 18 can be eye safe laser beam generators.
  • a single voucher which may be 1 5 duplicated, will allow tollway users to access a wide range of tollways, parking stations, football stands, and ports, a particular tollway as well as the number of times the owner of the toll voucher uses said tollways during their period of validity.

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Le système de poste de péage décrit se compose d'une vignette (1), d'au moins une caméra (8) et d'un ordinateur à réseau neuronal (11) servant à commander l'actionnement d'une barrière de péage (14). La vignette (1) est de préférence installée sur le pare-brise (6) du véhicule (7). Le signal de sortie de la caméra (8), qui contrôle la vignette (1) dans son champ visuel (9), est introduit dans l'ordinateur à réseau neuronal (11) par l'intermédiaire d'un multiplexeur (10). L'ordinateur (11) commande un enregistreur (12) qui enregistre le passage de la vignette (1) à travers le poste de péage et actionne, au besoin, la barrière de péage (14). Les utilisateurs du poste de péage peuvent acquérir préalablement une vignette (1) pour un certain nombre de passages à travers la barrière de péage ou, dans une variante, les passages peuvent être facturés ultérieurement.
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EP0585916A1 (fr) * 1992-09-03 1994-03-09 Karl Schweitzer Dispositif pour la reconnaissance de signes sur objets, en particulier pour lettres et chiffres sur plaques d'immatriculation de véhicules
WO1994028377A1 (fr) * 1993-05-28 1994-12-08 Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag Procede et dispositif pour l'enregistrement du deplacement d'un vehicule
WO1994028516A1 (fr) * 1993-05-28 1994-12-08 Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag Procede et dispositif pour l'enregistrement d'un vehicule a une station de peage
WO1995020800A1 (fr) * 1994-01-28 1995-08-03 Detemobil Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet Gmbh Systeme permettant de controler l'habilitation de vehicules a emprunter des voies et/ou des zones de circulation
EP0751480A2 (fr) * 1995-06-23 1997-01-02 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Méthode et dispositif de codage et de vérification d'information sous forme de vignette
US5661286A (en) * 1994-11-15 1997-08-26 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha Noncontacting IC card system and gate facility and antenna mechanism
US6109525A (en) * 1993-05-28 2000-08-29 Saab-Scania Combitech Akitiebolag Method and device for registering vehicles in a road toll facility
FR2802004A1 (fr) * 1999-12-03 2001-06-08 Decaux S A Procede et dispositif pour surveiller une place de stationnement reservee
GB2394341A (en) * 2002-03-08 2004-04-21 Silent Witness Entpr Ltd Access control system
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EP0585916A1 (fr) * 1992-09-03 1994-03-09 Karl Schweitzer Dispositif pour la reconnaissance de signes sur objets, en particulier pour lettres et chiffres sur plaques d'immatriculation de véhicules
US6109525A (en) * 1993-05-28 2000-08-29 Saab-Scania Combitech Akitiebolag Method and device for registering vehicles in a road toll facility
US5859415A (en) * 1993-05-28 1999-01-12 Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag Method and apparatus for the registration of a vehicle(s) in a free flow toll facility by tracking the vehicle along a path in the toll facility area
WO1994028377A1 (fr) * 1993-05-28 1994-12-08 Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag Procede et dispositif pour l'enregistrement du deplacement d'un vehicule
WO1994028516A1 (fr) * 1993-05-28 1994-12-08 Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag Procede et dispositif pour l'enregistrement d'un vehicule a une station de peage
US5757286A (en) * 1993-05-28 1998-05-26 Saab-Scania Combitech Aktiebolag Method and a device for the registration of the movement of a vehicle
WO1995020800A1 (fr) * 1994-01-28 1995-08-03 Detemobil Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet Gmbh Systeme permettant de controler l'habilitation de vehicules a emprunter des voies et/ou des zones de circulation
US5661286A (en) * 1994-11-15 1997-08-26 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha Noncontacting IC card system and gate facility and antenna mechanism
US5837982A (en) * 1994-11-15 1998-11-17 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha Antenna for non-contact IC card gate facility
EP0751480A2 (fr) * 1995-06-23 1997-01-02 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Méthode et dispositif de codage et de vérification d'information sous forme de vignette
EP0751480B1 (fr) * 1995-06-23 2004-02-11 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Méthode et dispositif de codage et de vérification d'information sous forme de vignette
FR2802004A1 (fr) * 1999-12-03 2001-06-08 Decaux S A Procede et dispositif pour surveiller une place de stationnement reservee
GB2394341A (en) * 2002-03-08 2004-04-21 Silent Witness Entpr Ltd Access control system
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US9430734B2 (en) 2010-06-25 2016-08-30 Petroliam Nasional Barhad (Petronas) Method and system for validating energy measurement in a high pressure gas distribution network

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