US Patent Issued to SK Telecom on Dec. 16 for "Method for extracting characters from vehicle license plate, and license plate character extraction device for performing method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,698, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK Telecom Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for extracting characters from vehicle license plate, and license plate character extraction device for performing method" was invented by Heeyul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Chunghun Kang (Seoul, South Korea), YongSung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Taewan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungji Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of extracting characters from a license plate of a vehicle performed by a license plate character extraction device. The method comprises: converting a input image obtained by captu...