Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for automatic license plate recognition of a vehicle
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Application No.: US18195537Application Date: 2023-05-10
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Publication No.: US12205382B2Publication Date: 2025-01-21
- Inventor: Joseph Allen Steele, III , Josh David Schumacher , Tyler Ellison Ebding , Franklin Christopher Brooks
- Applicant: Quick Quack Car Wash Holdings, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Roseville
- Assignee: Quick Quack Car Wash Holdings, LLC
- Current Assignee: Quick Quack Car Wash Holdings, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Roseville
- Agency: Caldwell Intellectual Property Law
- Main IPC: G06V20/62
- IPC: G06V20/62 ; G06T5/77 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T7/11 ; G06V10/25 ; G06V10/44 ; G06V10/82 ; G06V20/56

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for automatic license plate recognition of a vehicle, the apparatus includes a user device configured to receive a user input containing reference indicators and associate a right to the reference indicators, an image capturing device configured to capture vehicle images of a vehicle containing a license plate region, an image processing module configured to receive the vehicle images from the image capturing device and process the vehicle images, a computer vision module configured to determine an obscurity of the license plate region, and identify indicators as a function of the license plate region, an image inpainting module configured to reconstruct the license plate region based on the obscurity of the license plate using an image inpainting technique, and a validation module configured to validate the indicators as a function of the reference indicators and grant the user the right as a function of the validation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20240378906A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION OF A VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2024-11-14
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