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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1999
Ume Tech Yugen Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
In a license plate information reader device (A) for motor vehicles, a CCD camera ( ) is provided to produce video image data ( ) involving a license plate obtained by photographing a front and rear portion of a motor vehicle. An A/D converter ( ) produces a digital multivalue image data ( ) by A/D converting the video image data ( ). A license plate extracting device ( ) is provided to produce a digital multivalue image data ( ) corresponding to an area in which the license plate occupies. A literal region extracting device ( ) extracts a literal positional region of a letter sequence of the license plate based on the image obtained from the license plate extracting device ( ). A literal recognition device ( ) is provided to recognize a letter from a literal image ( ) of the literal positional region obtained from the literal region extracting device ( ). An image emphasis device is provided to emphasize the literal image ( ) of the literal positional region by replacing a part of the literal region extracting device ( ) with a filter net which serves as a neural network.
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