EMERGENCY RESCUE VEHICLE VIDEO BASED VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM

摘要

Disclosed are methods and systems for monitoring and reporting road violations of vehicles sharing roads with responding emergency vehicles. According to an exemplary method video is captured from a forward and/or rear facing camera mounted to an emergency vehicle, and the video is processed to identify any vehicles in violation within a prescribed distance from the emergency vehicle. A license plate id of a vehicle determined to be in violation is identified and communicated to the appropriate authorities.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of detecting a vehicle that fails to yield to an emergency vehicle traveling on a section of road, the method comprising:
A) receiving a video stream from a forward facing image capturing device mounted to an emergency vehicle, the video stream including a plurality of temporally spaced video frames; B) processing the video stream to identify two or more video frames including a detected vehicle within a prescribed distance in a front of the emergency vehicle; and C) processing the identified two or more video frames to determine if the detected vehicle is yielding to the emergency vehicle according to a prescribed law, the prescribed law requiring the detected vehicle to yield a right of way to the emergency vehicle within the prescribed distance by moving the detected vehicle to a prescribed side of the section of road and stopping on the prescribed side of the section of road.