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Vehicle registration plates may be automatically scanned with equipment, mountable on vehicles, that identifies an image characteristic of a registration plates, takes a photograph, and reads and records the registration number. [1] Such scanning may be done by government [1] [2] or private industry.
Nigerian vehicle registration plates in current use were introduced in 1992 and revised in 2011. Nigeria, Liberia , Somalia [ 1 ] are the only three African countries that use the North American standard (300 mm × 152 mm (10 in × 5 in)), with Egypt using an approximately similar size (350 mm × 170 mm (15 in × 5 in)).
The software aspect of the system runs on standard home computer hardware and can be linked to other applications or databases.It first uses a series of image manipulation techniques to detect, normalize and enhance the image of the number plate, and then optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the alphanumerics of the license plate.
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Liberia requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates. [1] Nigeria, Liberia, Somalia [2] are the only three African countries that use the North American standard 6 × 12 inches (152 × 300 mm). Private vehicles are prefixed "A" (personal), "B", and "C", probably for cargo.
The registration mark takes the form of three groups of digits separated by a space (early plates were separated with a hyphen [2]).Since the late-1990s, [3] The first group of numbers is composed of 5 digits (including leading zeroes – earlier plates have up to three digits with no leading zeroes), which make up the vehicle's actual registration/serial number.
After a vehicle has passed the inspection, a safety inspection decal showing the month of expiry is placed on the rear license plate (the emission inspection decal was placed on the front license plate until it was phased out in 2010 and integrated into the safety inspection). The colour of the decal changes every year in a six-year cycle ...
The plates indicate the region where the vehicles bearing them were registered. Ghana has no restrictions on the use of number plates in the various regions, for example, a vehicle registered in the Ashanti Region can be used in the Brong-Ahafo Region. A vehicle can be re-registered or a new license plate acquired under the following conditions: