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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

Inventors:

Vladimir Kozitsky, Rochester, NY (US);

Matthew Shreve, Tampa, FL (US);

Orhan Bulan, Webster, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/325 (2013.01); G06K 9/3216 (2013.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G06K 2209/15 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and processor-readable media for the detection and classification of license plates. In an example embodiment, an image of a vehicle can be captured with an image-capturing unit. A license plate region can then be located in the captured image of the vehicle by extracting a set of candidate regions from the image utilizing a weak classifier. A set of candidate regions can be ranked utilizing a secondary strong classifier. The captured image can then be classified according to a confidence driven classification based on classification criteria determined by the weak classifier and the secondary strong classifier.


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