TRAFFIC FLOW MEASUREMENT IMAGE PROCESSOR

• Main Authors: TANIGUCHI HIROYASU, NAKAMURA TAKAHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.03.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that only a congestion degree can be judged in a conventional traffic flow measurement image device which is provided with a means for obtaining a state variable regarding a traffic amount of an input image in macro and a means for obtaining a moving amount of a vehicle from a relation between the respective input images at the time t and the time t+Δt, and in which the amounts obtained in the respective means are inputted to a neuro computer to obtain the congestion degree. SOLUTION: This traffic flow measurement image device is constituted of an image pickup part, a control means of the image pickup part, a frame memory, an existence area setting means, a data extraction means, a one-dimensional data preparation means, a data time sequential storage means, a pattern signal preparation means and a traffic state discrimination means for discriminating a plurality of traffic states.