Patent ID: 9741249
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06K,G08G

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying moving vehicles that illegally pass a school bus during a bus stop, comprising: receiving a video sequence from a camera device mounted on a school bus; partitioning the video sequence into video segments such that each video segment corresponds to a single bus stop and comprises one or more video frames captured during the bus stop; analyzing the frames within each video segment to detect a moving vehicle in one or more of the frames; identifying and tagging frames in which a moving vehicle is detected; identifying and tagging video segments that comprise tagged frames; for each detected moving vehicle, locating a license plate on the moving vehicle; identifying license plate information comprising the alphanumeric characters on the license plate and the state of origin of the license plate; and appending metadata, which describes the license plate information, to at least one of the tagged segment and the tagged frame in which the license plate information is identified to generate a violation package; wherein detecting the moving vehicle comprises: