Patent ID: 11881039
Assignee: AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 13:
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the LPR system further comprises a controller communicatively coupled to the camera device, the method further comprising steps to:
adjust, by the controller, the long-exposure setting of the camera device by a first amount and the short-exposure setting of the camera device by a second amount;
capture, using the image sensor, a second long-exposure image with the adjusted long-exposure setting and a second short-exposure image with the adjusted short-exposure setting;
detect the first license plate in the first portion of the second long-exposure image and the second short-exposure image;
align the first license plate in the first long-exposure image with the first license plate in the second long-exposure image;
transform the first portion of each of the first long-exposure image and the second long-exposure image by geometrically rectifying to accommodate for relative positions of the first license plate; and
merge at least the first long-exposure image and the second long-exposure image into a consolidated image, wherein characters of the first license plate have a greater probability of being recognized by the computerized optical character recognition platform in the consolidated image than the first short-exposure image, the second short-exposure image, the first long-exposure image, or the second long-exposure image.