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Abstract

A traffic monitoring apparatus that is used to reliably detect the occurrence of an abnormal situation, such as a traffic accident. An imaging device produces and outputs images of a point to be monitored at predetermined intervals. Image inputting unit of the traffic monitoring apparatus inputs images output from the imaging device. Move vector extracting unit first generates a background image from a plurality of images input, then specifies areas where a moving object exists by calculating the difference between the background image and a newly input image, and then extracts move vectors from the specified areas. Parameter calculating unit calculates the slope and intercept, being parameters, of a move vector by considering the move vector as a segment. Plotting unit plots parameters for each move vector in a two-dimensional coordinate system with slope and intercept as its bases. Abnormality judging unit judges, in the case of the parameters being plotted in an unusual area, that an abnormal situation has occurred and informs a control center etc. (not shown) via a network of this.

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