Patent ID: 11948366
Assignee: NEOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle identification method, the method comprising:
obtaining an image including at least a portion of a vehicle;
identifying at least one of a license plate number of the vehicle and generating a descriptor associated with the vehicle by using image processing on the image;
determining a probability value or values that the image includes the identified at least one of the license plate number and the descriptor;
associating the at least one of the license plate number and the descriptor, and the probability value or values, with the image as image metadata;
identifying one or more like images, each having respective metadata including the identified at least one of the license plate number and the descriptor as determined based on probability values associated with the one or more like images, wherein the identified one or more like images are each part of at least one vehicle identification profile in a database;
comparing the image metadata to the respective metadata of the one or more like images; and
adding the image with the image metadata to a profile of the at least one vehicle identification profile based on the comparison, and updating a probability value associated with the profile.