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Sul Ross State University does not offer a Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). The mandatory medical fee is NOT health insurance. University athletes have limited supplemental accident through the Physical Education department; call (432) 837-8226 for details.
The health insurance requirement for domestic students at Sul Ross is fully voluntary. It is strongly recommended that these students maintain a comprehensive health plan. International students must show proof of health insurance that is good in the United States.
State insurance guidance at Texas health options.
Military veterans may check with Brewster County's veteran representative, or go to West Texas VA Health Care System for information about service related benefits.
Disclaimer: The following links to health insurance products, services and/or memberships are for informational purposes only and do NOT represent an endorsement by Sul Ross State University's Student Health Services.
To better understand medical coverage plans, see The young adult's guide to health insurance by MoneyGeek.
There are several independent insurance agents in Alpine who can help locate a health plan to fit your needs.
Big Bend Regional Medical Center (BBRMC) transports patients out-of-town when a higher level of specialized care is needed. The Emergency Room physician chooses the method and source of transport as determined by a patient's condition. Students who are underinsured for air medical transport may contact BBRMC's operator at (432) 837-3447. They will direct your call to hospital staff who can help with information about medical transport memberships.
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Marianella Valera, the president of ATC, and Lawrence S. Duran, the president of Medlink, entered the pleas on behalf of their corporations. Valera and Duran each pleaded guilty on April 14 to all counts charged against them individually in the superseding indictment. According to that indictment, Duran, Valera and others caused the alteration of patient files and therapist notes for the purpose of making it appear that patients being treated by ATC qualified for PHP treatments. Duran, Valera and others also paid kickbacks to owners and operators of assisted living facilities, halfway houses, and patient brokers in exchange for delivering ineligible patients to ATC.
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When my Dad was little, he was a terror. But in order to make him seem like a nice child, my grandmother had a useful trick. When he was invited to birthday parties, however, his mother (my grandmother, Elsie Beatrice Blagdon HAYWOOD) used to fill him up beforehand with bread-and-dripping. This meant that, when he was asked at the party if he wanted seconds, he used to say (quite truthfully) "No, thank you, no thank you" - he couldn't have had any more; he was full of bread and dripping!
Note: in case you are one of those lucky people who is too young to remember bread-and-dripping: 'dripping' was something like lard and dripped from the fatty parts of an animal you had roasted (as in 'beef dripping' or 'pork dripping'). It used to be used for frying the chips of fish-and-chips, but now is considered not as healthy as, say, vegetable oil. In Yorkshire, bread-and-dripping was often known as a 'mucky fat sandwich'.
Sounds yummy! (she said, with a forced smile).
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There are 3 comments on the Dissident Voice story from Oct 27, 2013, titled U.S. Society Is in Deep Trouble. In it, Dissident Voice reports that:
For all the enervating political tumult and shouting emanating from Washington these days, there is remarkably little to show for it except what has become virtually routine political paralysis.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at Dissident Voice.
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#1 Oct 27, 2013
From the article.. What has the Democratic Party done to halt the erosion of American democracy? What has it done to strengthen civil liberties? What has it done (in the last 50 years) to reverse the ever-widening inequality gap between rich and poor? What has it done to end wars and substantially reduce the bloated military/national security budgets in order to invest in social programs? What has it done to promptly take major steps to convert from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy? It has done nothing of significance.
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Well, in the USA there is something called the "republican party" and to get most of these things past both the industrial lobbyists and the right wingers would be a miracle.
This isn't about Democratic politics but about the 'deadlock' of the political process. And with the USA becoming more and more fascist that is unlikely to change much.
The real problem is that the moneyed elite that control government (by controlling elections with money) are moving towards a state that controls the people instead of the people controlling the government. See the protests over the NSA surveillance programs of US citizens (not to mention other dignitaries in other countries).
What a mess. But don't expect the EXISTING poltiical system to FIX it. The existing political system is what CREATED it.
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Actually, the solution is embedded in the trouble. There is this thing called "party platform" and our public is conditioned along the lines of their party's platform.
Voila.. of course the GOP can't do that.. at this point with the tea party people. Voila, again.
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The Danisco Award 2007 goes to Professor Niels Christian Nielsen of the University of Aarhus. He receives the Award along with DKK 250,000 for his strong international research profile, particularly in food-related issues and his huge efforts to establish the NanoFood consortium.
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His research covers nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and as Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Insoluble Protein Structures he develops methods for structural and functional analysis of membrane proteins, fibrils and protein aggregates. The centre is closely integrated with the nanoscience centre iNANO and the NanoFood consortium, where he worked hard to establish a research platform for the food area.
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Dec 06, Colombo: Media Minister of Sri Lanka Keheliya Rambukwella says there are claims of the media being gagged in the country when the media is engaged in using the freedom enjoyed by the country.
Rambukwella has told parliament that there is a need for a mechanism to measure media freedom.
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He has questioned whether anyone could agree to the publication of such defamatory articles.
According to Rambukwella, freedom was rare during the period of the war, but the situation has now changed.
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One the eve of the state election, South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has played a surprising card, imploring voters to "vote Labor tomorrow"
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Sisvel Technology (Booth South Hall 1 – 20818) will demonstrate how the 3DZ Tile Format revolutionizes 3D broadcasting, saving bandwidth and costs for broadcasters – while providing a glasses-free user experience.
3DZ Tile Format is a technology that enhances the performance of autostereoscopic displays. This is the latest exciting extension of the Tile Format which already offers users better definition than existing solutions, is backward compatible with 2D High Definition TV sets and offers significant advantages to broadcasters by using a single bandwidth-efficient stream. For a quick overview, click here.
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Sisvel Technology will also demonstrate Cropping Rectangle technology. This enables broadcasters to transmit 3D programs that can be viewed stereoscopically on 3D television sets and simultaneously in 2D format on full HD television sets without the need for simulcasting. The booth will also showcase partners using 3D Tile Format technology: local, national and international broadcasters (Quartarete, 50canale, Europa7, VTV Broadcom, CNTV 3D channel, SES), industry partners (Vestel, Sim2, Antik Technology, Utah Scientific, CVE, BLT, Triaxes, Elecard, Dimenco, Gammared, Allied Telesis) and 3D content producers.
SIM2, one of the leading producers of high-end 3D video projectors, will also participate in the Sisvel demonstrations at International CES. A specially constructed darkroom will demonstrate the high quality of 3D Tile Format reproduced by the Mico 150 video projector.
The American marketplace is rapidly embracing 3DTV and Sisvel Technology is working diligently to provide compelling solutions to broadcasters throughout the 3D entertainment ecosystem – from chipsets, TV and set-top box manufacturers to TV and IPTV broadcasters.
Sisvel Technology is dedicated to research, development, and technical consultancy in the media technology industries. The company collaborates with public and private organizations to implement R&D programs and to produce innovative technical solutions leading to commercially valuable technologies.
Editors Please Note: To request an interview with a Sisvel spokesperson or see a live demo of the 3DZ Tile Format, please contact Brianne Miller at (650) 575-7727, [email protected]. Booth 20818 South Hall 1.
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|Mar 21, 2006
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|Mar 15, 2002
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|Mar 15, 2002
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|Mark William Vernon
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|Extreme Cctv Inc.
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|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (45), Classifications (9), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The majority of the world's vehicle license plates are retro-reflective by design. This means they reflect a large proportion of incident light back in the direction of the incident beam. They are designed this way in order to make them readable at night by shining a light on them. A car following another car can read the front car's rear license plate even at night because the plate reflects the following car's headlight beams back. The taillights of the car in front are typically not bright enough to overpower and obscure the light that is retro-reflected from the license plate of the car in front. It is however difficult or impossible to make out the front license plates of approaching traffic at night, because the headlights of the approaching traffic does overwhelm the visible light reflected from the front license plates. Even in reading the rear license plate of following traffic, the reader should be within an angle of 5 degrees of the illuminating source in order for the retro-reflecting surface to operate effectively and yield a sufficiently informative amount of light and contrast. Non-retro-reflective surfaces obey Snell's law where the light is reflected at an angle to the normal of the surface opposite but equal to the angle of the incident light. The retro-reflective nature of these plates is mainly for high visibility.
In trying to image a vehicle's license plates with CCD cameras several problems can occur. Firstly, at night there may be no ambient light to be reflected from a license number plate so an illuminator must be used. Secondly, if the vehicle's headlights are on, the cameras can be blinded by the glare from the headlights overriding any light information reflected from the license plate itself. The CCD elements become saturated and the stored charge over spills into adjacent cells resulting in a picture which is smeared and in which the license plate's numbers and letters either cannot be seen at all or are illegible. The CCD will generally try to handle this amount of light by increasing the shutter speed with the result that it can image the headlights perfectly but the gain is so reduced that the number plate disappears from the image. If the vehicle is moving fast it may travel some distance in the time that the CCD is collecting light. This can result in a blurred image.
An imaging system of this nature has several other requirements. If it is to be mounted on a highway, a toll both, or an unmanned security gate, there needs to be a reasonable lifetime. The requirement to cordon off one or more lanes of traffic and to hire a cherry picker lift to replace a bulb is undesirable. For mounting on a bridge or overpass over a highway there is a certain requirement for the range from camera to vehicle, depending on the height of the bridge. Also the unit cannot be at too acute an angle to the license plate, or the alphanumeric symbols on the license plate, will be too skewed for optical character recognition software to decipher them. The system needs also to cope with the elements, extreme cold, heat and rain.
The invention works well with retro-reflective plates because most such plates not only reflect visible light as intended, but also reflect infrared illumination, with the alpha-numeric symbols used in most license plate territories giving good contrast in the infrared spectrum as well as in visible light. Another background factor that creates the need for this invention, yet allows it to work effectively is that the headlights of vehicles produce most of their focussed output in the visible light spectrum, whereas their infrared output is more limited and diffuse.
There are speed detection camera systems that capture license plates as part of a photograph of a speeding car. Software is available from a variety of companies that can take a video signal containing a moving vehicle and isolate the license plate. This software can then perform optical character recognition on the license plate. The software however relies on high-resolution images that are not blurred. The speed detection photographs often require human review, as the license plate is not imaged sufficiently well for computerized optical character recognition, due to low resolution, blurring due to speed of the vehicle, or low contrast due to poor light. The human review process is of little avail where the ambient daylight reaches a low level and vehicles begin switching on glaring headlights that interfere with the desired high signal to noise ratio in the video capturing of the light reflected from the license plate.
It is common to use infrared illumination for nighttime imaging of scenes having various contrasting reflective elements and backgrounds in the infrared spectrum. The prior art uses infrared LED illuminators that have very high current pulsed through an LED array. This has several disadvantages; the circuit complexity required to pulse the LEDs this leads to increase cost and reduced reliability; the requirement for the flash duration and rate to be set up for each installation. Stress on the LEDs is likely to be increased using the high current even for short pulses, possibly compromising reliability. Also range is still limited using this method.
Other methods exist for reading license plates at night that involve flashing visible light at the plates. However, cost is an issue with these systems, as is safety. The flashing can distract drivers at a psychological level, as well as impairing the visual information that would otherwise be available from the rest of the scene ahead.
None of the prior technology discloses the system of the present invention.
This invention provides an infrared illuminator and camera system for imaging of auto vehicle license plates. The system works in ambient light conditions ranging from bright sunlight, to dim light, to dark, to zero ambient light. It yields high-contrast imaging of the letters and numbers on retro-reflective license plates. The images of the license letter and number combinations can be read manually by a remote operator. They can be converted to text format with optical character recognition computer hardware and software. The text data can then be compared to data files listing license numbers to provide further data about the owner of a licensed vehicle. A decision can be made quickly about whether to allow a vehicle to proceed through a gate, or whether to take other action. The system uses a mono camera that is enhanced for infrared sensitivity, combined with a high power infrared illuminator to maximize range at night, and with shutter speeds set up to capture clear license plate pictures even with fast moving vehicles, and even with bright headlights on the vehicles interfering with human observation of the license plates. Optical filtering too pass infrared in the range of the illuminator and to reduce light outside this range combines with a lens set up to avoid vertical smear and sensor overload caused by headlights at night and by highlight reflected glare from the sun in daylight hours.
The system uses a high powered infrared illuminator capable of providing adequate illumination over 100 meters for a CCTV surveillance system, but a range of 12 meters to 35 meters will solve the majority of license plate imaging applications. This allows the invention to under-run the bulb in the illuminator by supplying it with reduced voltage and current. Under-running the bulb increases the bulb life. Average bulb life can be extended up to 10 years in this manner. Because the illuminator produces wavelengths of light only in the infrared, a matched infrared filter can be used over the camera that blocks much of electromagnetic spectrum outside of the infrared illuminator's wavelength frequency range. This causes the headlights of a vehicle not to overpower the license plate image. And during the daytime, it has the salutary effect of reducing sunlight glare. The reduced spectrum of sunlight entering the camera is more than sufficient to make day images of the license plate. Full sunlight and even bright headlights that are unfiltered could overload the CCD sensor in the camera. To further reduce the effects of headlights and sunlight a lens is used that has a very small aperture, effected by adjusting the iris. This drastically cuts down the amount of light falling on the sensor. The illuminator then has to be powerful enough to overcome this aperture setting when reflected from the license plate. The small aperture has the added advantage of producing a large depth of field in focus through the lens of the camera. By forcing the light that falls on the sensor to come through a small central portion of the lens the image is kept in sharp focus for a large range of object distances. This is important as the car may be traveling rapidly towards the system and several in focus images can be taken within an extended in-focus range while the vehicle travels within that range. It allows any optical character recognition software to make several attempts at reading the plate, thereby increasing the successful recognition rate.
To stop the camera from adjusting its shutter speed up and down depending on the light falling on the CCD sensor, it must be set to a fixed shutter speed. This shutter speed is chosen to be 1/1000 of a second, as this speed is fast enough to freeze the action of a fast moving vehicle sufficiently for character recognition of the license plate alphanumeric symbols. Experiments have proven that even with a high power illuminator under-run at a voltage or current rate to provide a predicted 10 years average bulb life there is enough remaining power to allow a very small aperture at the indicated shutter speed. It has also been demonstrated that the CCD sensor will image the license plate numbers and letters correctly, allowing optical character recognition, even with headlights on full beam and aimed at the camera.
The invention is essentially a license plate reader system for all ambient light conditions, comprising a high power infrared illuminator for night and a camera that:
The camera is preferably a monochrome camera that has high resolution and low inter-pixel leakage. It has a lens set up with a small aperture formed by an iris to avoid sensor overload, to increase depth of field for focussed images of license plates on moving vehicles, and to avoid vertical smearing of images. It has a sunshield to avoid vertical smear from overhead ambient light on images captured by the camera.
The high power infrared illuminator should provide illumination over a distance of at least 35 meters from the camera at an intensity to capture clear license plate pictures even with fast moving vehicles and even with their headlights on, and have sufficient power to allow closed circuit television surveillance over a distance of at least 100 meters, thereby allowing its bulb source or sources of infrared illumination to be powered with an electrical voltage that is lower than the infrared light source's normal voltage operating range in order to extend bulb life in the illuminator.
The high power infrared illuminator could emit wavelengths in the range 830 to 1000 nanometers, in which case the optical filtering should comprise a filter that passes infrared wavelengths in the range of 830 to 1000 nanometers and restricts wavelengths of light below and above that range.
The shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second in the above-described system allows it to capture license plate images from vehicles travelling even at high rates of speed, anywhere in the range of 0 to 100 miles per hour.
When the system is contained in a weather-tight ruggedized housing, and with an armoured able cable for sending a video signal from the system to a remote location, it is suited for combination with a second such system, each system located a measured distance apart, in order to capture separate license plate images in conjunction with the systems being connected to a timer or the systems having synchronized clocks for use in speed monitoring of vehicles.
A prime use of the system would be for security control at a gate, with the system integrated with computer hardware and software such that images of license plates are downloaded from the license plate reader system for processing by an automated optical character recognition module, and in which alphanumeric characters read from a license plate of a vehicle are compared with data from license plate databases in preparation for a response to the vehicle.
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A back casting 30 is screwed into the rear of the main camera housing 40 compressing the back gasket 31. This makes a weather tight seal to the back of the main camera housing 40. A terminal block 27 connects the camera 10 to external cables. Armoured conduit 210 contains wiring carries the video signal from the camera 10 and supplies power to the camera 10 and small heater 32. The armoured conduit 210 enters the main camera housing 40 via an M16 swivel gland 200. The small heater 32 is secured in place by an adhesive pad 33 at the front of the housing 40 and can be thermostatically controlled, ensuring that the lens does not mist up and that the internal temperature of the unit does not become too cold for the operating temperature range of the camera 10. If the shutter speed of the camera is approximately 1/1000 of a second, the video imaging from the camera 10 can capture license plate images from vehicles travelling at speeds in the range of 0 to 100 miles per hour.
The high power infrared illuminator comprises an infrared light bulb 130 that emits wavelengths in the range 830 to 1000 nanometers. The infrared bulb 130 is specially chosen to have a small filament 131 that acts more like a point source than most normal bulbs. This allows use of a specially designed reflector 120 that is gold-plated to optimize the amount of infrared light that is reflected out of the lamp 132. The infrared bulb 130 is also chosen for high output and efficiency. The infrared bulb 130 is mounted to the bulb carriage 133 by two screws 134 and 135. The reflector is held in place by two arms on the bulb carriage and adhesive is used to bond it in place. The bulb carriage 133 is mounted in the lamp housing 100. The electrical supply wires, camera control wires, video output wires, are routed via a block 280 attached to the bottom of the lamp. The back casting 207 clamps the lamp gasket 210 to the lamp carriage and housing 100 with screws 208 and 209.
The lens 114 spreads the light out horizontally to give a useable horizontal field of view in the range of 10 to 30 degrees depending on the lens fitted which in turn depends on the desired range. The lens o-ring 112 fits around the edge of the front face of the lens 114. The lens 114 and o-ring 112 sit inside the lamp front casting 110. This in turn screws on to the lamp main housing 100, compressing the filter gasket 118. A dichromatic filter 119 sits inside the filter gasket 118. The filter only passes infrared wavelengths in the region of 830 nm to 1000 nm. This seals the front of the lamp 132 against water ingress. The filter gasket 118 has a bleed channel 116 of very fine bore which is too small to allow water to pass but does allow the pressure inside the lamp to equalize with atmospheric pressure. This ensures the glass lens 114 and filter 119 do not crack due to build up of internal pressure.
The lamp 132 is mounted on the mounting block 160. The armoured conduit 210 from the camera assembly is connected to the back of the block 160. A piece of M20 armoured conduit can also be connected via a gland to the back of the block and allows the wires from the lamp 132 and the camera 10 to be routed safely to the power supply unit 301 and thereby to the video-processing module 302 and the computer network control module 304. The power supply unit 301 contains a transformer 304 and power control circuitry 305 powering the lamp 132, the camera 10 and the heater 32. The power control circuitry 305 can turn on the lamp based on information from ambient light sensor 140. The video-processing module 302 can include an optical character recognition module 306, as well as camera focus and aperture control 307. The processed video information is then fed to computer network control module 303, which can include information storage module 308 and display module 309.
A U bracket 201 is connected to a slide plate 202, which is fixed to the underside of camera assembly 203. The U bracket 201 and hence the camera assembly 203 are attached to the lamp housing 100. The camera assembly 203 can be angled in relation to the lamp 132 to achieve the best picture by tilting the U bracket 201. Grub screws 204 and 205 in the U bracket 201 lock the final position.
An extended sunshield 220 can be fitted to the top of the camera assembly 203. Mounted to the bottom of the sunshield is a cowl 221, which protects against rain, sleet and snow. A lamp sunshield 223 and lamp cowl 224 are also fitted to the lamp 132 for environmental protection.
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The system is not by itself a speed camera but by placing two units a known distance apart, they can be used together for journey time monitoring and thus used for traffic regulation enforcement. In this capacity the units would be ruggedized and made vandal proof with cable management systems.
The within-described invention may be embodied in other specific forms and with additional options and accessories and applied to other imaging problems where visible light is insufficient or actually interfering, without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The presently disclosed embodiment is therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalence of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.
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