Patent ID: 9111169
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for identifying a vehicle registration number from a plurality of images comprising representations of a vehicle registration plate, the computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and configured to cause a computer to perform steps comprising: determining a first probability distribution of alphanumeric characters present in a portion of one of the images; determining a second probability distribution of alphanumeric characters present in a portion of another of the images, the portion of the other of the images corresponding to the portion of the one of the images; fusing the first and second probability distributions to provide a fused probability distribution of alphanumeric characters in relation to the one and the other images; and identifying which alphanumeric character is present in the respective portions of the one and the other images by identifying from the fused probability distribution the alphanumeric character having the highest probability of being present.