摘要 |
A vehicle enforcement system suitable for determining whether a parked vehicle is permitted to park in a particular location, whether a vehicle is taxed and/or insured, or whether the vehicle is wanted by the police for other offences. The vehicle enforcement system comprises; a mobile camera operable to capture an image of a vehicle number plate and communicate the captured image to an automatic number plate recognition system so as to retrieve the vehicle number mark using optical character recognition. The system further comprises; a GPS unit connected to the mobile camera configured to communicate the GPS co-ordinates of the mobile camera when the image is captured, and a clock connected to the mobile camera configure to communicate the time when the image is captured. A data processor is configured to receive the vehicle number mark from the captured image and GPS co-ordinates of the mobile camera at the time the image was captured and compare these with a predefined list of vehicle number marks and, if no match or a match is determined (depending on the contents of the list), highlighting the location of the captured image. |