Software Technology for Automated license plate recognition system and the related method

Systems, methods, devices and computer readable media for determining a geographical location of license plates are described herein. The camera’s first image acquisition device captures an initial image of a plate. The second device for image acquisition acquires an additional image. A three-dimensional position of the license plate with respect to the camera unit can be determined by stereoscopic image processing of the initial image and the second image. The location of the camera unit is then determined. The three-dimensional location of license plates relative to the camera unit is utilized to establish the geographic location. Other methods, systems as well as devices and computer-readable media to detect a license plate and identifying a license plate are described in this article.

Automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system could create a digital photograph of a car to create a digital image which it can then use to look up the license plate in the digital image. The ALPR system may then further process the digital image inorder to determine the license plate number printed on the license plate.

The current ALPR systems may have various shortcomings. An ALPR system may be used to spot parking violations and read license plates. The patrol vehicle could be fitted with a global positioning system (GPS) unit that allows an approximate location of the patrol vehicle is known by photographing license plate and/or issuing the parking ticket. The systems do not provide exact geographic location information for the license plate, or for the vehicle with the license plate. The existing ALPR systems could have additional issues, for instance, problems in determining the location of the license plate image and/or being able to identify the license plate in certain situations.

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