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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Kapsch Trafficcom Ag, Vienna, AT;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kapsch TrafficCom AG, Vienna, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/04 (2006.01); G07B 15/06 (2011.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/04 (2013.01); G06K 9/00201 (2013.01); G06K 9/3233 (2013.01); G07B 15/06 (2013.01); G06K 2209/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present subject matter relates to a method and a roadside unit for generating a digital record of a vehicle in a road toll system, comprising: capturing an image of the vehicle on a roadway; data-compressing the image depending on at least one of a confidence level obtained from the image for one or more characters therein by means of OCR, and a contrast parameter obtained from the image or a region of interest therein or a section of the latter, to generate the digital record; and sending the digital record from the roadside unit to a data center of the road toll system.