EA009534B1 - Device and process for vehicle identification - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention concerns the area of the vehicles identification, in particular of the automobiles. The feature of the presented method consists in the fact that before the control body a automobiles flow is organized without the right to change the strips, on each strips two independent information channels for the biometric information reception are created, for example, information received from the seen marks on biometry by the means of a videocamera and information received with the help of the radioreceiver removing the biometric information from the noncontact CHIP, established on the automobile and the identification is realized by the mean of it comparison, and in case of discrepancy of the biometric data given from two independent channels the automobile is allocated from the common flow and will carry out an additional identification by comparison with the face biometric points of the owner and the data contained in central database.

Description

The invention relates to the field of vehicle identification, in particular automobiles.

Known methods of vehicle identification (1), based on the use of radio direction finding systems. However, the high cost of client equipment and the relatively low noise immunity of the system limit their area of application. In particular, such systems cannot simultaneously identify a driver who has stepped out of a car, which is sometimes extremely important, especially if the system is working in anti-terror mode and the driver is an alleged terrorist.

Also known panel for the car (2), containing the registration numbers on the car and information about the driver. Such information on the scoreboard is contained in the form of a bar code. However, such information is almost impossible to read using video cameras from moving cars. If the car's barcode is on the display, then it can only be read in a stationary state. If on the board the barcode is taken from the driver's passport, then the situation for the patrol service is even more complicated. We need direct contact with the driver (who may be the hijacker) during the transfer of documents and the subsequent verification of bar codes, which is extremely undesirable and even dangerous for representatives of the patrol service.

There are also known car panels (3) containing registration numbers for the car and general information about the driver (basic signs, height, hairstyle, gait features, etc.). Such a system helps patrol service, but does not provide reliable identification.

As a prototype, you can select the panel (4) mounted on the vehicle and containing the biometric points of the face of the vehicle owner and the signs defining the dimensions of the panel with point sources of light installed at the locations of the signs.

Using this panel eliminates the need for the driver to carry any documents with him. His face, or rather the location of the biometric points on his face, is such a document.

The use of such a panel is reduced to the viewing by the surveillance device (video camera) of the license plate and the driver's face, recording information and transferring it to the database, further comparing the information received with the information about the car and its owner entered into the database, and transferring it back to the monitoring site about the results of the comparison. Additionally, a car-mounted panel with signs printed on it, defining the biometric points of the car owner’s face, is viewed. The information entered into the database includes information about the biometric points of the owner’s face and persons entitled to drive this vehicle.

The absence of such a panel on a car today requires stopping the car and removing biometrics information from the fixed face of the owner. When driving on the highway, especially with some movements of the head of the owner, identification is almost impossible. Another thing is when biometric points are placed on the panel and practically, in relation to the car, are fixed.

The disadvantages of such a panel include the fact that it is not located at the optimum place. The location of the panel on the outside of the car can lead to the fact that when driving in bad weather, the panel, due to dirt lumps on it, can give out distorted information. It would be unwise to supply such a model with a separate mechanical cleaner, since such cleaners have been on the machine for a long time. The disadvantage of this panel can be attributed to the fact that its installation requires a change in the exterior design of the car, which is always associated with high costs in the production of cars.

This panel has no additional safety net in the form of a contactless chip that contains information about the biometric points of the face of the owner of the car, the so-called ΚΡΙΌ (tabiu Ggstsispsu ίάοηΙίΠοαΙίοη). Depending on the modification of the contactless chip, information can be retrieved from it at a distance of several kilometers at a vehicle speed of up to 200 km / h.

If you install the newly proposed panel on the outside of the car, the wind load will distort the degree of heating of the signs, which will make such a panel inoperative.

The proposed panel is mounted on the car and contains signs corresponding to the biometric points of the face of the owner of the car, as well as signs that define the dimensions of the panel with point sources of light installed in the locations of the signs.

The peculiarity of the proposed panel is that it is installed on the inside of the front (rear) glass, the signs are made in the form of a conductive film coating, connected in series to an electrical circuit and connected to a power source through a current stabilizer. The resistance of the film conductive coating, which is responsible for the biometric points of the face of the car owner, is different from the resistance of the film conductive coating, which is responsible for the signs that determine the dimensions of the panel. The panel is additionally equipped with a contactless CHIP containing information about the biometric points of the face of the car owner. The panel is pre-printed on a transparent dielectric, common to all signs, substrate.

FIG. 1 schematically shows a panel 1 mounted on the inside of the front (rear) window of the car 2.

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FIG. 2 shows separately the panel itself, containing signs 3, corresponding to the biometric points of the face of the car owner, and signs 4, defining the dimensions of the panel.

The panel itself (Fig. 3) 1 is installed on the inside of the frontal (rear) glass 5 of the car 2. The signs 3 and 4 are made in the form of a conductive film coating, connected in series to the electrical circuit 6 and connected to the power source 7 via the current stabilizer 8.

FIG. 4 shows panel 1, in which signs 3 and 4 have different electrical resistances.

FIG. 5 shows the panel, which is equipped with an additional contactless chip 9, containing information about the biometric points of the face of the car owner.

Fig 6 shows a panel having a common for all signs of a transparent dielectric substrate 10.

FIG. 7 shows a panel in which a non-contact CHIP 9 is placed in a non-detachable container 11 equipped with a self-destruction unit 12. The contactless CHIP 9 can be connected to an external power source 7 and programmed to turn on the alarm when it is turned off, and sufficient to trigger an alarm, record the biometrics of the hijacker's face and transmit the signal to the central database.

FIG. 8 shows the windshield 5, on the inner side of which, mainly opposite the driver's seat, an internal video camera 14 is installed, connected to a non-contact CHIP 9. Non-contact CHIP 9 is also connected to a lock 15 installed between the external power supply 7 and the ignition lock 16. Non-contact CHIP 9 can be fitted with a warning light 17 confirming the identification of the driver.

The proposed panel is used as follows. When panel 1 is connected to an external power source 7, signs 3 and 4 are heated to different temperatures, which makes it possible to obtain biometric information about the vehicle owner using an external video camera capable of recording a portion of the infrared spectrum. By aligning the biometric information in the database with the vehicle registration number, you can identify the vehicle itself. But the use of the panel does not end there. This is the first stage in which it turns out that the person entered into the database is admitted to the right to drive a given car (this is not only the owner of the car, but all those whom the driver trusts and transfers them the right to drive this car by issuing a standard biometric document data of these additional persons in the database). During the time required to identify the car, the database already gives the patrol service biometric data on all persons who have the right to drive this car. When stopping the car, the second stage of identification is carried out by comparing the biometric data of the driver’s face no longer with the entire database, but only with the limited biometric information of the persons entitled to drive, which is reflected in the database and on panel 1. In fact, this that the identification of the right to drive is carried out instantly. Patrol do not need to spend precious seconds on biometric identification. This is especially important if the car driver is not the owner or authorized person driving the car. Such a panel can save the lives of more than one policeman.

The location of the panel on the inside of the glass of the car, in addition to ensuring the identification process, performs a number of additional tasks: removing the ice from the outside of the glass and removing the fogging of the inside of the glass. The presence of a common substrate 10 makes such a patent attractive not only for a factory that manufactures automobiles (or a factory that manufactures hotel components, for example, car glass). Such a patent may be interesting for any small non-specialized enterprise.

The use of a transparent substrate 10 common to all signs does not narrow the driver’s view; placing signs 3 and 4 in the space between the glass and the substrate 10 reduces temperature fluctuations due to convective heat exchange inside and outside the car to a minimum. The same task is performed by the current stabilizer 8, ensuring the stability of heat generation on signs 3 and 4.

The presence of contactless chip 9, containing information about the biometric points of the face of the owner of the car, makes it possible to automate part of the customs functions of checkpoints between individual states or individual areas (states).

Information is removed from the proposed panel, which allows simultaneous identification of the car and the owner, automatically, day and night, the process takes place quickly, efficiently, reliably and does not tire the traffic police officers at all.

The presence of a non-contact CHIP 9 installed in a one-piece container 11 and equipped with a self-destruct unit 12 at the opening, excludes the uncontrolled passage of the observation area. The self-destruction unit 12 can be made in the form of an ampoule with a chemically active substance, which is opened by a capacitive sensor (not shown), triggered by the deformation or opening of the container 11. The chemically active substance destroys the non-contact CHIP, and the machine with the destroyed CHIP does not pass through the control point.

Such a system can operate both in constant mode and periodically with the inclusion of a signal of increased terrorist danger.

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The system also provides a variant of confrontation with the hijacker, which consists in the fact that a car can only be started when identifying a driver by comparing biometric information stored in contactless CHIP 9 and biometrics obtained from an internal video camera 14. If such information does not match, contactless CHIP 9 gives alert.

A known method for identifying a vehicle 3 is by setting the registration number on the vehicle and pre-introducing information about the profile of the person or the physical characteristics of the driver into the central database. However, neither the profile of the driver’s face nor his physical features make it possible to identify with high confidence neither the driver nor the car.

As a prototype, a method of identifying vehicles 4 was chosen, which consists in that the surveillance device (video camera) scans the license plate and the driver's face, records the information and transmits it to the database, compares the information obtained with the information entered into the database, including information about the car and its owner, then transfer back to the site of observation information about the results of the comparison. Additionally, a vehicle-mounted panel with signs printed on it identifying the biometric points of the vehicle owner’s face is compared with the information previously entered into the database, including information about the biometric points of the owner’s face and persons entitled to drive this vehicle.

The disadvantages of this method of vehicle identification is its low productivity due to the need to contact the database to view the entire list of vehicles. In this way, it is impossible to handle a multi-lane car park with a stream of cars constantly moving in all lanes. The need to remove biometrics from the face of the car owner completely eliminates the control of the flow of cars in motion.

The proposed method of vehicle identification consists in viewing by a video surveillance device a panel containing signs on the front surface that define the biometric points of the driver’s face, and then comparing these data with the biometric data previously entered into the database.

The peculiarity of the proposed method lies in the fact that before the control point a multi-row flow of cars is organized without the right to change lanes, two independent information channels are created on each of the lanes to obtain biometric information, for example, information obtained from visible signs on biometrics on a display using a video camera, received with the help of a radio receiver, which removes biometric information from a contactless chip installed on the vehicle, and identification is carried out by comparing them, and in the event of biometric mismatch from two independent channels, the car is isolated from the total flow and additional identification is carried out by comparing the owner’s face with biometrics and comparing it with the central database.

FIG. 9 schematically depicts a control point (customs, city, etc.). Before the control point, a multi-row flow of cars is organized without the right to change lanes. If for the organization of such a movement is not enough conventional marking lanes prohibiting inter-lane restructuring of cars, then you can use the real side 18, not allowing this restructuring. This can be done 50-100 m to the point of control.

The proposed method for the identification of vehicles works as follows.

When approaching the control point of the video camera 19 installed over each of the lanes, the biometry information of the car owner is removed from the panel and the sequence of vehicles advance along each of the lanes is formed on the computer of the control point 20. In the subsequent advancement, the same information is obtained, obtained by means of radio receivers 21, which remove the biometric information from the contactless CHIP 9 installed on the vehicle. Information from radio receivers 21 also goes to computer 20, where it is compared with information from video cameras 19. If the biometric information received from two independent information channels coincides, the car is considered identified and passes unhindered through the control point without stopping. Here it is necessary to clarify the term "independent." Two video cameras, even working independently of each other and removing biometric information from the same panel, are not fully independent channels. Under the independent channels are understood channels that receive information about biometrics recorded on various media, and transmitting information in various ways. This method of vehicle identification does not require database queries and verification of all data on all vehicles. It is carried out automatically and does not require the direct involvement of the police forces.

A special case arises when the biometric information received from two independent information channels does not match.

In this case, the automated control gives a signal for additional verification. A car is separated from the general flow and additional identification is carried out by comparing the owner’s face’s biometrics with the data from the central database, which contains information not only about the owners’s biometrics and all those who have obtained the right to drive this car, but also the classic

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This method becomes especially useful if it is additionally equipped with a system of pre-identification of the driver.

The person who has sat down for a car wheel, should execute the elementary operations. If a person who has sat behind the wheel is entered into an individual car database (i.e., his biometrics is pre-registered in a contactless CHIP), then, having turned his face to an internal video camera and after sitting motionlessly in front of it for 20-30 s, he passes identification (ignited signal light on the panel) and gets the right to turn on the engine.

What happens when you try to bypass the system by a person without access to this machine? Suppose that the hijacker does not even know about the presence of such a system. He gets behind the wheel, the video camera does not confirm the identification of the driver, and the system warns the central database with the help of the contactless CHIP. If the hijacker knows about the installation of such a system, then he can make up, put on the owner's photo, etc. The software can easily distinguish a photo from a living face by characteristic muscular movements. Make-up, in principle, cannot change the basic characteristics of biometrics, for example, the distance between the centers of the eyes. The system can be programmed in case of confrontation with the hijacker in different ways. It may not allow the engine to start, and may give permission to start the engine with a simultaneous hidden signal of unauthorized driving. The second option is preferable, as the police do not need to look for the hijacker. In the software, it is possible to provide for recording the biometric points of the hijacker in the CHIP and resetting information about it to the central database. It is possible to provide more in-depth protection when, instead of a single CHIP (installed in a prominent place), spare CHIPs are installed in hidden places of the machine, which are triggered by mechanical destruction of the main chip. The analysis shows that the most dangerous option for hijacking is unauthorized entry into the car of the car thief in a mask that mechanically destroys the main chip 9. Despite this action, the car will not pass the checkpoint, since there will be no agreement between the information stored on the panel and the chip. But the hijacker still has the possibility of driving inside a populated area with the subsequent disassembling of a car and reselling individual nodes (uncharacteristic actions of hijackers in developed countries). In the presence of hidden additional chips, it is impossible even to distill inside the settlement (which, of course, is equipped with radio signal receivers from the chips). The signal to turn on the hidden chip (CHIP) can be mechanical destruction of the main chip 9 or termination of the background radio signal from it.

Interlocking the operation of the engine is a less efficient technique, and in the case of using this option, it is necessary to provide mainly primary interlocking before starting the engine. The possibility of blocking the engine in motion is irrelevant, as it can create an emergency situation for other machines. The blocking of the engine can be envisaged, for example, when the vehicle is stopped at the control point.

The hijacker can cut the non-contact chip and connect the engine, ignition lock and power supply directly. But cutting off any external wire from the power supply unit 7 on the contactless chip puts the latter into alarm ad mode; Such a car will be searched as in case the driver did not pass the identification process. Such cars, in principle, can not go through any of the control points and even move inside the settlement.

The hijacker has another option: to wait for the driver-owner to pass the identification, and, under the threat of violence, to force him to overcome the control system. But such an action falls under other, more severe articles of the criminal code, which in itself is a defense.

The technical means for overcoming such a scheme of hijacking are quite simple - the driver of the host may have hidden buttons on the steering wheel or in any other places available during the movement that include a general alarm - “car in the hijacking”.

Information sources

1. A.I. Solovyov. The use of radio direction finding systems in ensuring the safety of mobile objects. Information and methodical journal "Confident", March-April 2003, p. 48-51.

2. Patent ОV 2 339 950 A, 2000.02.09.

3. Patent ОV 2374227 A, 2002.10.09.

4. Patent for the invention of the Republic of Moldova No. 2649, O08O 1/017, B 60B 13/10 “Panel mounted on a vehicle and method of vehicle identification”.

Claims (8)

CLAIM 1. Device for identifying a car, including a panel containing signs corresponding to the biometric points of the face of the owner of the car, and signs that determine the dimensions of the panel, and point light sources installed in the locations of signs, characterized in that the panel is installed on the inside of the front or rear glass signs made in the form of a film - 4 009534 conductive coating, connected in series to an electrical circuit and connected to a power source through a current stabilizer, and the car itself is equipped with a contactless chip that contains information about the biometric points of the face of the car owner. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the resistance of the film conductive coating, responsible for the signs corresponding to the biometric points of the face of the owner of the car, different from the resistance of the film conductive coating, responsible for the signs that determine the dimensions of the panel. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the contactless chip is installed on the panel. 4. The device according to claim 3, characterized in that the contactless chip is installed in a one-piece container equipped with a self-destruct unit at the opening. 5. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that on the inside of the windshield, preferably opposite the driver's seat, a video camera is installed, connected to a non-contact CHIP. 6. The device according to claim 5, characterized in that the contactless chip is also connected to a blocker installed between the power supply unit and the ignition lock, and a signal lamp confirming the identification of the driver. 7. The device according to claim 3, characterized in that it is equipped with additional chips installed in the hidden parts of the car. 8. A method of vehicle identification, which consists in reading information on biometric points from a control point using a video surveillance device from a car-mounted panel containing signs on the front surface that define the biometric points of the driver’s face, characterized in that the control point is multi-row the flow of cars is organized without the right to change lanes, additionally read from each car information about the biometric points of the face of the car owner with installed go on the car contactless chip and carry out identification by comparing the data read from the panel and chip.