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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory Reid Lee, Torrance, CA (US);
Yie-Ming Chen, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Assignee:
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ; G08G / ; G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701117 ; 701118 ; 701119 ; 367135 ; 340943 ;
Abstract
Traffic is monitored in individual lanes of a roadway as to vehicle count or presence, speed and direction of movement by mounting a microphone array high above the road surface, digitizing the output signals of the microphones, filtering, beamforming and storing the digitized signals to provide separate power histories for separate locations in individual lanes. These power histories are then analyzed to provide vehicle movement data for each lane.