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US 7,068,185 B2Granted
System and method for reading license plates
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorDouglas M. Kavner
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Abstract
A method for reading a license plate disposed on a vehicle includes determining whether a license plate image is required, automatically processing the license plate image in response to determining that the license plate image is required, providing at least one verified image, and determining whether to manually read the license plate image by matching the license plate image with the at least one verified image.
Claims9
A system for reading a vehicle license plate comprising:
- a plurality of roadside toll collectors providing a plurality of vehicle license plate images and a plurality of vehicle transactions;
- at least one transaction processor coupled to the plurality of roadside toll collectors, receiving the plurality of images and transactions;
- at least one video image processor coupled to the at least one transaction processor and adapted to receive the images and for providing a corresponding license plate number;
- a video exception processor coupled to the at least one transaction processor and adapted to receive the images and to display the images such that the vehicle license plate is read manually;
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- a toll processor coupled to the at least one transaction processor and adapted to minimize the number of manual reads.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.