Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Locating persons of interest based on license plate recognition information
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Application No.: US14957272Application Date: 2015-12-02
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Publication No.: US09361546B1Publication Date: 2016-06-07
- Inventor: Shawn B. Smith
- Applicant: VaaS, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: VaaS, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VaaS, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Spano Law Group
- Agent Joseph S. Spano
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/72 ; G06T7/00 ; G06K9/62 ; G07B15/00

Abstract:
Possible locations of a person of interest are ranked based on LPR instances captured around physical locations and license plate numbers associated with the person of interest. An LPR instance includes an indication of a vehicle license plate number, a physical location, and a time when the LPR instance was captured by a LPR system. A possible location of the person of interest may be a location of an LPR instance that matches the license plate number or an address location associated with the person of interest. The ranking may be based on the number of LPR visits to each location, the number of license plate number matches at each location, or an attribute of a cluster of LPR instances. In some examples, an electronic message is rapidly communicated to an entity if a target license plate number is found at a highly ranked location.
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