METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE SPEED OF TRAVEL AND COORDINATES OF VEHICLES AND SUBSEQUENTLY IDENTIFYING SAME AND AUTOMATICALLY RECORDING ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES

摘要

The invention relates to traffic control systems and, more precisely, to methods and devices for monitoring the observance of road traffic regulations, including the observance of speed limits. The proposed automatic system makes it possible to reduce the probability of error when identifying the vehicle of an offender, increases the length of a speed limit monitoring zone to several hundreds/thousands of metres, and makes it possible to cut expenditure on the construction and maintenance of gantries for the installation of speed limit monitoring devices. For this purpose a novel method for the combined processing of signals from a radar and a panoramic video camera is proposed, in which data flows from the video camera and the radar are independently obtained, after which they are compared and data about the speed and coordinates are obtained with little probability of error in identifying the vehicle of an offender. The device for realizing the proposed method comprises a radar with a signal processing module, which makes it possible to calculate the speed and distance of all vehicles on a chosen section of road, and a panoramic video camera.