20. The system of claim 17 wherein said image of said license plate prior is vertically cropped prior to sweeping said OCR classifier across said image of said license plate.
17. A system for segmentation free license plate recognition, said system comprising: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a license plate; an OCR classifier, wherein said OCR classifier is swept across said image of said license plate; at least one Hidden Markov Model (HMM) wherein characters and their locations with respect to said image of said license plate are inferred using probabilistic inference based on said at least one HMM; a language model comprising a Naïve Bayes classifier using a MOSCount feature and a codeLength feature, that is combined with at least one license plate candidate from said at least one HMM to infer an optimal license plate code; and a state identification module that identifies a state of origin for said license olate according to said optimal license plate code.