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 onto a computing system including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing an amount of program code that when executed by the computing system is for;
determining a plurality of License Plate Recognition (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;
determining a plurality of clusters of recognized LPR instances based on a visiting time period that an LPR unit collected LPR instances within the search zone, wherein the determining of the plurality of clusters involves determining a time difference between successive LPR instances and assigning the successive LPR instances to the same cluster if the time difference is less than a predetermined threshold value;
determining at least one attribute of each of the clusters;
ranking the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on the at least one attribute of each of the clusters of LPR instances; and
communicating a list of address locations and time periods where the person of interest may be reached based on the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest.
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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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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 onto a computing system including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing an amount of program code that when executed by the computing system is for; determining a plurality of License Plate Recognition (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; determining a plurality of clusters of recognized LPR instances based on a visiting time period that an LPR unit collected LPR instances within the search zone, wherein the determining of the plurality of clusters involves determining a time difference between successive LPR instances and assigning the successive LPR instances to the same cluster if the time difference is less than a predetermined threshold value; determining at least one attribute of each of the clusters; ranking the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on the at least one attribute of each of the clusters of LPR instances; and communicating a list of address locations and time periods where the person of interest may be reached based on the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. 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 onto a computing system including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing an amount of program code that when executed by the computing system is for; determining a plurality of clusters of recognized LPR instances based on a visiting time period that an LPR unit collected LPR instances within the search zone, wherein the determining of the plurality of clusters involves determining a time difference between successive LPR instances and assigning the successive LPR instances to the same cluster if the time difference is less than a predetermined threshold value; determining at least one attribute of each of the clusters; ranking the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on the at least one attribute of each of the clusters of LPR instances; and communicating a list of address locations and time periods where the person of interest may be reached based on the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest.
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9. 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 License Plate Recognition (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 plurality of clusters of recognized LPR instances based on a visiting time period that an LPR unit collected LPR instances within the search zone, wherein the determining of the plurality of clusters involves determining a time difference between successive LPR instances and assigning the successive LPR instances to the same cluster if the time difference is less than a predetermined threshold value; determine at least one attribute of each of the clusters; rank the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest based at least in part on the at least one attribute of each of the clusters of LPR instances; and communicate a list of address locations and time periods where the person of interest may be reached based on the ranking of the plurality of possible locations of the person of interest. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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