US 10,255,516 B1 · Systems and methods for using image analysis to automatically determine vehicle information

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for analyzing digital images to determine alphanumeric strings depicted in the digital images. An electronic device may generate a set of filtered images using a received digital image. The electronic device may also perform an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the set of filtered images, and may filter out any of the set of filtered images according to a set of rules. The electronic device may further identify a set of common elements representative of the alphanumeric string depicted in the digital image, and determine a machine-encoded alphanumeric string based on the set of common elements.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of analyzing image data associated with a vehicle of an individual, the method comprising:

accessing a digital image depicting an alphanumeric string;
generating, by a computer processor, a set of filtered digital images using the digital image;
analyzing, by the computer processor, the set of filtered digital images using an optical character recognition (OCR) technique, the analyzing resulting in a set of OCR results respectively associated with the set of filtered digital images;
analyzing the set of OCR results to identify a set of common elements representative of the alphanumeric string depicted in the digital image;
and
determining a machine-encoded alphanumeric string based on the set of common elements.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/680,837Filed 18 Aug 2017 · us provisional application

Priority

29 Aug 2016

Granted

9 Apr 2019

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

G06V 30/1983
Using sequential comparisons of the image signals with a plurality of references: syntactic or structural pattern recognition, e.g. symbolic…
G06F 18/217
Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Blind source separation: validation; Performance…
G06F 18/254
Fusion techniques: of classification results, e.g. of results related to same input data
G06V 30/1916
Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Clustering techniques; Blind source separation:…

Systems and methods for using image analysis to automatically determine vehicle information

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Systems and methods for using image analysis to automatically determine vehicle information

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Abstract

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