Patent ID: 8576069

Claim:
A mobile monitoring system, comprising: a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle comprising: a camera that generates image data; a location device that generates geographic coordinates of the vehicle; a computing device that receives the image data from the camera and the geographic coordinates of the vehicle and forms a processed image signal that includes the image data, the geographic coordinates and a time stamp and is enabled to perform image recognition; and a communication device that receives the processed image signal from the computing device and wirelessly transmits the processed image signal to a base communication station and is enabled to receive a signal from the base communication station; and the base communication station in communication with each of the plurality of vehicles to receive processed image signals, the base communication station comprising an image processor to further process the processed image signal from each of the plurality of vehicles to determine a status of traffic flow to form an output signal and a transmitter that transmits the output signal, wherein the output signal is sent to another vehicle to provide instructions to a driver of the other vehicle and the base communication station is enabled to generate an image recognition instruction related to an object; and wherein the communication device receives the image recognition instruction for the computing device to execute the image recognition instruction to process an image of the object taken by the camera on the vehicle.