US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG LAB on June 30 for "Real-time license plate detection and recognition method and device based on color augmentation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,734, issued on June 30, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Real-time license plate detection and recognition method and device based on color augmentation" was invented by Fen Xu (Hangzhou, China), Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China), Weiqiang Cao (Hangzhou, China) and Xiaogang Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a real-time license plate detection and recognition method and device based on color augmentation, the method comprises: step 1: obtaining car images containing license plates as a license plate detection training set, inferring license plate detection results through the t...