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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094887 | Method and system for analyzing image identifications to identify an entity A method for analyzing image identifications to determine whether image identifications identify an entity (e.g., license plate of a vehicle). Identification sets are received from at least one optical character recognition (OCR) engine. Each identification set incl... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8059868 | License plate recognition apparatus, license plate recognition method, and computer-readable storage medium A license plate recognition apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of quadrangles of license plate region candidates from input images, a character recognition unit configured to execute character recognition of a character region inclu... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8009870 | Autonomous wide-angle license plate recognition A system in a moving surveillance vehicle operates in background mode to capture images of license plates of neighboring moving vehicles, which may occupy lanes other than the lane in which the surveillance vehicle is moving. The images are used to determine the lic... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7881498 | Autonomous wide-angle license plate recognition A system in a moving surveillance vehicle operates in background mode to capture images of license plates of neighboring moving vehicles, which may occupy lanes other than the lane in which the surveillance vehicle is moving. The images are used to determine the lic... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7778447 | Method and device for mobile object information management, and computer product A method, device and computer program for mobile object information management program includes obtaining a first image by photographing identification information of a mobile object, executing character recognition process on the first image to obtain a first chara... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7711150 | Autonomous wide-angle license plate recognition A system in a moving surveillance vehicle operates in background mode to capture images of license plates of neighboring moving vehicles, which may occupy lanes other than the lane in which the surveillance vehicle is moving. The images are used to determine the lic... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7693303 | Monitoring system and vehicle surrounding monitoring system A parameter selection section selects one from a plurality of image synthesis parameters stored in a parameter storage section according to an output of a vehicle state detection section. An image synthesis section reads out camera images from frame memories accordi... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7657064 | Methods of processing text found in images An image containing text (e.g., a surveillance camera photo that includes a vehicle license plate) is analyzed to determine the text (e.g., by an OCR technique). The recognized text is then stored in a database. The image is digitally watermarked with an identifier ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7613328 | Label detection A system and a method to detect a label are described herein. The system and method are to extract a horizontal region of interest based on the image; to extract a vertical region of interest based on the image; and to identify presence of the primary label in the i... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7433764 | Method and system for recording a traffic violation committed by a vehicle The invention relates to a method for recording a traffic violation in which a vehicle is involved, by detecting the violation, making a record of the violation, and searching for and reading from the record a license plate of the vehicle involved in the violation. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7412078 | System for automatic recognizing license number of other vehicles on observation vehicles and method thereof The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically recognizing a license plate number of a subject vehicle in use of a surveillance vehicle, which mounts automatic license plate number recognition equipment including a camera to a vehicle such as... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7382280 | Parking violation recording system and method A parking violation recording system capable of recording violations based on the location of a violating vehicle, is provided. The system includes at least one camera located on a mass transit vehicle, oriented so that it is capable of viewing a violating vehicle a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382277 | System for tracking suspicious vehicular activity A system for monitoring and tracking vehicles in parking locations, public roadways and highway entrances and exits and other public vehicle access areas and to monitor and track vehicles in parking spaces, public roadways and highways without the need for parking o... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7359042 | Inspection system for limited access spaces A limited access space inspection system comprising: an imaging device for imaging a region in the limited access space, a mounting for mounting the imaging device to scan about the limited access space and a scanning control unit, associated with the imaging device... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339495 | System and method for reading license plates 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 ve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324154 | Monitoring video camera A monitoring video camera has a mounting bracket, a lens assembly, a light assembly and a transparent shell. The mounting bracket has a bottom surface. The lens assembly is mounted on the bottom surface of the mounting bracket and has a primary bracket and a lens. T... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302085 | Vehicle identification method and device In order to improve an identification accuracy of a backlit number plate in a vehicle identification method and device which recognize a vehicle number from a number plate of a vehicle whose image is taken, an image frame of a vehicle is taken by an interlace method... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7194423 | Method and apparatus for determining a progressive discount for a customer based on the frequency of the customer's transactions A system and method are disclosed for determining and applying a discount to a customer's transaction. The discount is of a progressive nature, wherein the value of a customer's discount increases if the customer meets the conditions associated with the discount. Th... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188307 | Access system A character string is extracted from an image photographed by a camera. It is determined whether or not the extracted character string includes an address on a network. Software for accessing the address runs. Accordingly, a user can easily access a desired address ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7171046 | Method and apparatus for portably recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for portably detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present invention is a portable device that is capable of capturing imagery and is also capable of detecting and extracting text information from... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7137076 | Correcting recognition results associated with user input Recognition results associated with handwritten electronic ink, voice recognition results or other forms of user input can be corrected by designating at least a portion of a visual display. Recognition results corresponding to the designated portion, and optionally... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133574 | Method for recognizing position of honeycomb structure A position of a honeycomb structure, which is comprised of an outer shell, separation walls arranged in the form of a honeycomb within the outer shell, and a number of axially extending cells which are defined by the separation walls, is recognized. When the positio... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7119832 | Wireless microphone for use with an in-car video system An in-car video system and method is provided where a wireless microphone is configured with bi-directional communications capability. In response to a received RF activation signal, the wireless microphone is automatically switched on to capture (and transmit back ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103199 | Character recognition method and apparatus A character recognition method is provided, in which the method includes the steps of: picking up images in a motion picture by changing brightness for each image; extracting a character area from each image; recognizing at least one character in the character area ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099832 | Method and apparatus for defining routing of customers between merchants A server or Internet service provider computer selects a soliciting merchant and an outputting merchant based on various factors. In one embodiment, the soliciting merchant is selected if its activity rate (e.g. sales rate) is low. The outputting merchant provides o... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7031553 | Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performa... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023333 | Automatic activation of an in-car video recorder using a vehicle speed sensor signal An in-car video system and method are provided where a vehicle speed derived from a vehicle speed sensor (“VSS”) signal is compared against a user-settable threshold value. If the vehicle speed exceeds the threshold value, an alarm is generated. The alarm is use... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023475 | System and method for identifying an object with captured images One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for identifying objects with captured images. One embodiment of the present invention is a method comprising the steps of actuating a controller configured to cause an image capture device to opera... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016518 | Vehicle license plate imaging and reading system for day and night This invention provides an infrared illuminator and camera system for imaging of auto vehicle license plates. The system works in ambient light conditions, ranging from bright sunlight, to dim light, to dark, to zero ambient light. It yields high-contrast imaging of... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6996255 | Apparatus and method for image processing The method for measuring speed is performed by dividing the time sequence image data A into long and narrow frames (step 401). Next, the framed images and the time sequence image data B produced by the line scan camera B are correlated to obtain a moving time... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996528 | Method for efficient, safe and reliable data entry by voice under adverse conditions A method and apparatus for data entry by voice under adverse conditions is disclosed. More specifically it provides a way for efficient and robust form filling by voice. A form can typically contain one or several fields that must be filled in. The user communicates... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996293 | Reduced image forming method and apparatus In an electric filing apparatus, a document is read, and the read document is divided into blocks by a predetermined dividing number. Further, the divided block is divided into a partial image or partial character train, and a partial image or partial character trai... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6959869 | Automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system employing planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based subsystems An automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system for installation along a roadway, comprising one or more a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based linear imaging subsystems mounted above the roadway in a spaced apart manner. The PLIIM based subsystems a... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961465 | System and method for efficient determination of recognition initial conditions A system (200) and method creates (312) a reduced-resolution version of an image and uses the reduced resolution version to identify (324) recognition initial conditions. The recognition initial conditions are then used (326) on the origi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6924825 | Contrast adjusting circuit A contrast adjusting circuit used in a PDP display prevents the image from being whitish by suppressing the rise of the luminance at a low level when the contrast is heightened and optimally adjusts the contrast of the images always varying with time. The circuit co... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6776542 | Ticket issuing system A ticket issuing system for facilitating processing and printing of citations. The ticket issuing system includes a housing being designed for being held in a hand of a user. An information assembly is positioned in the housing. The information assembly is designed ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6757571 | System and process for bootstrap initialization of vision-based tracking systems The present invention is embodied in a system and process for automatically learning a reliable tracking system. The tracking system is learned by using information produced by an initial object model in combination with an initial tracking function, and a data acqu... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754369 | License plate reading apparatus and method A running vehicle is photographed at a predetermined frame period by an image pickup unit (TV camera) provided at a position above a road. Two images of a present frame image and a previous frame image which were photographed are successively stored in an image stor... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6747687 | System for recognizing the same vehicle at different times and places In a vehicle time-of-entry and time-of-exit system, the passing of a vehicle through an entrance generates a “trigger-t0” signal. An entrance video camera provides realtime images of entering vehicles. The trigger-t0 signal causes one video frame o... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6650765 | System for simultaneously imaging vehicles and their license plates A vehicle video imaging system comprises a white-light LED array for illuminating retro-reflective painted parts of a vehicle's license plate, a powerful flash with a visual spectrum cutout filter and a polarizing filter for illuminating any non-retro-ref... | 11/18/2003 |
