APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION AND TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating development of license plate recognition (LPR) applications of various kinds and forms, the method comprising:
- configuring one or more configurable LPR apparatuses manually or automatically through hardware or software means to function in at least one of a plurality of operating modes, thereby acquiring the characteristics needed to set up an LPR application, where the characteristics include;
processing functionality and features needed by the LPR application,connection types needed by the LPR application,storage types needed by the LPR application,user interface types needed by the LPR application, anddata interface types needed by the LPR application; and
setting up the LPR application by connecting one or a plurality of the above configured LPR apparatuses with any required additional equipment including infrared/color cameras, network routers/switches, modems, global positioning system (GPS) devices, storage devices, video encoders/decoders, display monitors and computers.
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Abstract
A reconfigurable license plate recognition (LPR) processing apparatus and method for facilitating rapid development of LPR applications of various kinds and forms are disclosed. The LPR apparatus consists of processing hardware and software that can be configured manually or automatically into a plurality of operating modes that are designed to match the needs of various LPR applications. One or a plurality of appropriately configured LPR processing apparatuses along with LPR cameras and other required equipment can be assembled and operated in desired modes to build a variety of small-scale and large-scale LPR products. In addition, the LPR processing apparatus can be reconfigured when needed to match the changing requirements of an evolving LPR application, thereby eliminating the need to develop application-specific LPR hardware and software.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating development of license plate recognition (LPR) applications of various kinds and forms, the method comprising:
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configuring one or more configurable LPR apparatuses manually or automatically through hardware or software means to function in at least one of a plurality of operating modes, thereby acquiring the characteristics needed to set up an LPR application, where the characteristics include; processing functionality and features needed by the LPR application, connection types needed by the LPR application, storage types needed by the LPR application, user interface types needed by the LPR application, and data interface types needed by the LPR application; and setting up the LPR application by connecting one or a plurality of the above configured LPR apparatuses with any required additional equipment including infrared/color cameras, network routers/switches, modems, global positioning system (GPS) devices, storage devices, video encoders/decoders, display monitors and computers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An LPR system comprising a global positioning system (GPS) module, wherein the LPR system utilizes GPS location information produced by the GPS module to automatically adapt the OCR parameters for reading license plates of different geographical regions.
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