Buckinghamshire CC ANPR cameras

[Roland Perry]

In article <20120206214754.426156c7 at peterson.fenrir.org.uk>, Brian 
Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> writes
>Since reg plates are not in one fixed position on vehicles it would need
>a pretty complex algorithm to find the plate

You have to do that to perform ANPR at all.

>and then look only at one part of it,

Wouldn't you "look at" all of it, then discard all but the middle?

>particularly as some plates have all characters in a line
>and others are split into two rows.

See my first comment above. Also, for the purposes of Trafficmaster, you 
could simply disregard the small percentage of plates that have two 
rows.
-- 
Roland Perry