Locating persons of interest based on license plate recognition information
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a license plate number of a vehicle associated with a person of interest;
determining a plurality of LPR instances recognized within a search zone around any of a plurality of possible locations of the person of interest by one or more processors, wherein a possible location of the person of interest includes any of a location of an LPR instance that matches the license plate number and an address location associated with the person of interest;
determining a distance between a location of each of a plurality of LPR instances matching a license plate number associated with a person of interest and each address associated with the person of interest;
determining an average distance to the plurality of LPR instances for each address location; and
ranking the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on a plurality of License Plate Recognition (LPR) instances that match the license plate number, wherein the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest is based at least in part on the determined average distances for each address location.
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Abstract
Possible locations of a person of interest are ranked based on LPR instances captured around physical locations and license plate numbers associated with the person of interest. An LPR instance includes an indication of a vehicle license plate number, a physical location, and a time when the LPR instance was captured by a LPR system. A possible location of the person of interest may be a location of an LPR instance that matches the license plate number or an address location associated with the person of interest. The ranking may be based on the number of LPR visits to each location, the number of license plate number matches at each location, or an attribute of a cluster of LPR instances. In some examples, an electronic message is rapidly communicated to an entity if a target license plate number is found at a highly ranked location.
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24 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving an indication of a license plate number of a vehicle associated with a person of interest; determining a plurality of LPR instances recognized within a search zone around any of a plurality of possible locations of the person of interest by one or more processors, wherein a possible location of the person of interest includes any of a location of an LPR instance that matches the license plate number and an address location associated with the person of interest; determining a distance between a location of each of a plurality of LPR instances matching a license plate number associated with a person of interest and each address associated with the person of interest; determining an average distance to the plurality of LPR instances for each address location; and ranking the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on a plurality of License Plate Recognition (LPR) instances that match the license plate number, wherein the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest is based at least in part on the determined average distances for each address location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of LPR instances that include a plurality of license plate numbers within a search zone around a location; ranking the plurality of license plate numbers based at least in part on an attribute of a vehicle associated with each of the plurality of license plate numbers by one or more processors, wherein the ranking involves; determining a vehicle identification number (VIN) associated with each license plate number of the plurality of license plate numbers; determining an estimated monetary value associated with each determined VIN; determining an average estimated monetary value based on the determined estimated monetary values; and identifying a license plate number associated with a vehicle with an estimated monetary value that differs from the average estimated monetary value by more than a threshold value.
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14. An apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing an amount of program code that, when executed, causes the apparatus to receive an indication of a license plate number of a vehicle associated with a person of interest; determine a plurality of LPR instances recognized within a search zone around any of a plurality of possible locations of the person of interest, wherein a possible location of the person of interest includes any of a location of an LPR instance that matches the license plate number and an address location associated with the person of interest; determine a distance between a location of each of a plurality of LPR instances matching a license plate number associated with a person of interest and each address associated with the person of interest; determine an average distance to the plurality of LPR instances for each address location; and rank a plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on a plurality of License Plate Recognition (LPR) instances that match the license plate number, wherein the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest is based at least in part on the determined average distances for each address location. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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