Vehicle data collection and processing system
DCFirst Claim
1. A method for identifying abandoned stolen vehicles comprising the steps of:
- collecting vehicle data over a first interval of time, said first interval being greater than or equal to seven days, said vehicle data comprising scanned license plate numbers correlated with dates and locations at which license plates were scanned;
storing said vehicle data;
comparing a license plate number of a stolen vehicle to said collected vehicle data; and
processing results of said comparison to determine whether said license plate number of said stolen vehicle appears in said collected vehicle data a plurality of times during a second interval of time in a single location, wherein said second interval of time is greater than or equal to two days and is at least a portion of said first interval of time.
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Abstract
A system for collecting, storing, linking and processing license plate data to provide compilations of information and displays of such compiled information. The system has a license plate reading system that may record time and location data in addition to license plate data, license plate image data, and image data of a vehicle. The data is collected over an extended period of time and stored for later searching. The data may be correlated, indexed and/or categorized in storage. The collected data may be compared to various existing or other databases and correlated and/or indexed to such databases. That collected data may be processed, searched, and/or analyzed for a variety of purposes.
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14 Claims
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1. A method for identifying abandoned stolen vehicles comprising the steps of:
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collecting vehicle data over a first interval of time, said first interval being greater than or equal to seven days, said vehicle data comprising scanned license plate numbers correlated with dates and locations at which license plates were scanned; storing said vehicle data; comparing a license plate number of a stolen vehicle to said collected vehicle data; and processing results of said comparison to determine whether said license plate number of said stolen vehicle appears in said collected vehicle data a plurality of times during a second interval of time in a single location, wherein said second interval of time is greater than or equal to two days and is at least a portion of said first interval of time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for determining residency comprising the steps:
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collecting vehicle data over an interval of time greater than or equal to a predetermined time period, said vehicle data comprising scanned license plate numbers correlated with dates and locations at which license plates were scanned; storing said collected vehicle data; and processing said vehicle data to correlate vehicles with geographic regions of residency. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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10. A method for identifying a region to associate with an individual comprising the steps of:
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collecting vehicle data over an interval of time, said vehicle data comprising scanned license plate numbers correlated with dates and locations at which license plates were scanned; storing said collected vehicle data; comparing a license plate of interest to said collected vehicle data; and displaying information identifying a limited geographic region in which said license plate was scanned a plurality of times over a particular time interval. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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