摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for extracting a vehicle number plate information in which the number plate information in the picked-up image can be recognized at a high speed by using only the picked-up image of the vehicle. SOLUTION: When data on the video image of the vehicle picked up by a video camera 1 is received by a computer 3, the vehicle is detected from the change in the image in an area for detecting the vehicle in the video image of the vehicle by a vehicle detection software of the computer 3. A number plate recognition software of the computer 3 is started, the video image in the area for detecting the number plate information is analyzed by the number plate recognition software to recognize the number plate information, and the recognized number plate information is accumulated in a database 5. |