Optics: measuring and testing – Velocity or velocity/height measuring – With light detector
Patent
1989-12-28
1992-01-21
Buczinski, Stephen C.
Optics: measuring and testing
Velocity or velocity/height measuring
With light detector
356390, 356394, 356 4, G01P 336, G01B 1100
Patent
active
050823655
ABSTRACT:
A remote object/vehicle identification and speed determination system including a bar code label on each object/vehicle and a device for continuously scanning an area to determine when the object/vehicle is present at a predetermined distance from the scanning device. The scanning device may be responsive to ambient visible or invisible radiation from the label. Each label includes unique identification data for the object/vehicle as well as spaced framing signals used for making distance determinations. Each label may be invisible and may be on or in the windshield of a vehicle.
The signals from the scanning device are sampled continuously and the sampled signals are stepped along a shift register. Parallel outputs from the shift register are continuously analyzed so that signals from a single scan across a label are sufficient to determine if an object/vehicle is at a predetermined distance from the scanning device and to read the unique identification data.
Speed determinations are made by using the change in apparent size of the label to determine when an object/vehicle passes two predetermined distances from the scanning device and measuring the time lapse between the two passing events. The speed and the unique identification of the object/vehicle are both obtained.
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Davis William J.
Kuzmick Kenneth F.
Kuzmick Robert A.
Buczinski Stephen C.
Jacobs Kenneth E.
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