Perceptics, LLC

Juan Antonio Herrera

Anthony Scott Nelms

Alfred Lawrence Marston, Iii

Christopher Clair Richardson

Charles Andrew Cruey

Kent A Rinehart

Rafael C Gonzalez

Charles L Guffey

Augustin L Manolache

George E Deichert

Richard P Williams

A vehicle imaging system may include a first circuit board, and the system may also include an additional circuit board. The circuit boards may hold components for capturing images of vehicles as well as components for analyzing images of vehicles that have been captured. The analyzing may include performing optical character recognition on portions on images to identify characters in the images. A housing may enclose the circuit boards. The vehicle imaging system may be a license plate recognition system, a DOT number reader system, a hazardous material placard reader system, or a container code reader system, for example.

Vehicle imaging system

A portable undercarriage vehicle inspection system (UVIS) () uses an under vehicle imaging (UVI) module () to capture an image of the undercarriage of a vehicle. The UVIS also includes multiple scene cameras () that capture the associated vehicle scene images. The scene cameras are easy to view and manipulate. The undercarriage image and the associated vehicle scene images are provided to a power and communications unit (PCU) () through a network () such as Ethernet. These images may be stored in a database repository connected to the network. A notebook computer will serve as an operator workstation () for display of real-time, as well as historical, vehicular records. An operator viewing the images can enter additional information related to the images, such as comments and remarks, and archive all of the information for future reference and comparisons.

Apparatus and method for capturing and displaying images of the undercarriage of vehicles including one or more scene cameras

A video camera produces an image of a license plate on a vehicle, and a scanning apparatus finds a license plate number in the image. The identification of the license plate number is verified in a confidence check section by checking for the presence of a state logo. Next, a character extractor identifies individual characters of the number by finding and tracing a contour along interior portions of the character edges, and the contour length, character height, and character width are then checked in a validity checking section to determine whether they are within predetermined acceptable ranges. To correct for obscuring objects on the license plate, a character alignment section determines the top line and baseline of the license plate number and disregards portions of the characters that appear to be outside of these limits, and a license plate frame correction section is utilized to extract the characters when a portion thereof is obscured by a license plate frame. Once extracted, the characters are recognized by a structural analysis section and a state recognition section recognizes the state logo. Once the state is identified, a verification section rereads the license plate number utilizing knowledge of the type style used by the identified state.

Apparatus for reading a license plate

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