3714 results about "Parking area" patented technology

The present invention provides a terminal, apparatus and method for providing a customized auto-valet parking service. The server device includes a service registration management unit for receiving auto-valet parking profile information that includes information about one or more of a user, a vehicle, and a mobile terminal, and a parking map management unit for generating customized parking slots suitable for the user using the auto-valet parking profile information, and providing a parking area map, which includes information about the customized parking slots, to the mobile terminal. The parking map management unit receives information about a final slot selected by the user from among the customized parking slots via the mobile terminal, and provides a route to the final slot.

A method for reducing violence within crowded venues includes reading license plates of vehicles passing into entry ports of a parking area, and capturing facial images of persons seeking admission to the venue. A computer compares such license plates to a database of vehicle license plates associated with persons with past histories of violence. A computer also compares captured facial images to a database of facial data for persons with past violent histories. Upon detecting a match, the computer creates an alert presented to law enforcement officers at the venue to facilitate detention of such persons for investigation. Information recorded on entry tickets is scanned and saved together with the facial image of the ticket holder. If a violent act occurs, cameras within the venue capture facial images of participants. The computer matches such participants to stored identifying data to assist in the identification and apprehension of such persons.

A parking policy management system helps identify and enforce parking violations in real-time. By monitoring sensors distributed in a parking area, the system will determine whether one or more parking policies have been violated. The types of parking policies the system can monitor include duration, time of day, unauthorized vehicle, special permit parking, and paid parking. When a violation of a policy is detected, a notification may be delivered to enforcement personnel through the Internet, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones, in-vehicle dashboards, and other means.

A variably configurable fiber optic terminal as a local convergence point in a fiber optic network is disclosed. The fiber optic terminal has an enclosure having a base and a cover which define an interior space. A feeder cable having at least one optical fiber and a distribution cable having at least one optical fiber are received into the interior space through a feeder cable port and a distribution cable port, respectively. A movable chassis positions in the interior space and is movable between a first position, a second position and third position. The movable chassis has a splitter holder area, a cassette area and a parking area. A cassette movably positions in the cassette area. A splitter module holder having a splitter module movably positioned therein movably positions in the splitter holder area. The optical fiber of the feeder cable and the optical fiber of the distribution cable are optically connected through the cassette, which also may be through the splitter module. In such case, the optical fiber of the feeder cable optically connects to an input optical fiber to the slitter module, where the optical signal is split into a plurality of output optical fibers. One of the plurality of output optical fibers connects to the optical fiber of the distribution cable for distribution towards a subscriber premises. The interior space is variably configurable by changeably positioning the cassette and splitter modules in the movable chassis.

The invention relates to a method for managing parking rights. It comprises receiving, from each of a plurality of users, a request for issuing a parking right, each containing a unique identifier associated with a parking area and a license plate number identifying a unique vehicle; storing, in a centralised database, each request; issuing a parking right for each of the plurality of users, including a parking right expiry time; collecting a license plate number of a vehicle for which a parking right status is to be verified and a unique identifier associated with a parking area where the vehicle is located; querying the database, by comparing the license plate number, with the license plate numbers stored in the database; and determining if a parking right has been issued that corresponds to the license plate number of the vehicle. A system for managing parking rights is also disclosed.

A system and method for charging for vehicle parking is provided. The parking system includes a plurality of mobile parking units, each of the mobile parking units having an unique identification for installation in a vehicle and a parking control center for communicating with each of the mobile parking units. Each of the mobile parking units checks its location whenever the vehicle is not moving and if the location coincides with a known parking area, a charge for parking is activated until the vehicle resumes traveling.

The invention discloses an intelligent guiding and car locating system for a parking lot. The intelligent guiding and car locating system comprises a vehicle detecting coil, an automatic card sender, a license plate identifying camera, position identifiers, a vehicle guide display screen, an application server, a database server, an intelligent searching terminal, and a parking lot visible management system. The devices are communicated with one another by accessing a router through a wired network. When a car owner drives a car into the parking lot, the intelligent guiding and car locating system guides and indicates the car owner to find a parking space conveniently and rapidly. Meanwhile, parking cards are bound with license plates, so that a vehicle parking position is recorded by the position identifier mounted above each parking space. When the car owner finds the car, the parking space can be found by inputting a license plate number through the intelligent searching terminal or slotting the parking card, and an optical car taking route is obtained simultaneously.

A method and a system for identifying a vehicle in a parking area includes receiving video data from a video camera observing a parking area from a first field of view over duration of time and receiving image data from a still camera observing a second field of view overlapping the first field of view. The method includes tracking a location of a vehicle across a sequence of frames. The tracking includes determining a time instant at which each frame was captured. The method includes comparing a select frame captured by the video camera with an image captured by the still camera. Based on the comparing, the method includes matching the vehicle in the image with the vehicle in the frame. The method includes determining a license plate number of the vehicle by locating a license plate on the vehicle in the image.

The present invention relates to a wireless charging system for an electric vehicle and to a charging method for same, in which electric power is wirelessly supplied to the electric vehicle through a plurality of wireless transceiving panels to charge a battery, and only the wireless transceiving panel that is opposite the electric vehicle at an optimum condition in consideration of the type and parked position of the vehicle selectively operates to perform a wireless transceiving operation, thereby maximizing wireless charging efficiency. For this purpose, the present invention provides a wireless charging system for an electric vehicle and a charging method for same, wherein the wireless charging system comprises: a power control device installed in a wireless charging station to control each wireless power-transmitting device; a wireless power-transmitting device and a ground near field wireless communication module, which are installed in a parking area; a plurality of wireless power-transmitting devices installed on the ground of the parking area to select and operate a portion of wireless transmitting panels opposite the vehicle in accordance with electric vehicle charging information; a plurality of wireless receiving panels installed in the lower portion of the electric vehicle such that the panels are movable in the upward and downward directions; and a wireless power receiver, a wireless charging terminal, a near field communication module and a charge controller installed within the electric vehicle, thereby performing optimized wireless charging in accordance with the selection of a driver made via the wireless charging terminal.

Provided is a parking count control system using a parking management server which is a parking management control system using a driver terminal unit, the system including: a mobile driver terminal unit capable of performing voice communication or / and wireless Internet; a parking management server receiving parking information about an identifier (ID) of a parking area and a parking time from the driver terminal unit when the parking management server has an access to the driver terminal unit to perform settlement and counting a parking time according to a parking area to notify the driver terminal unit of a parking completion message; a parking terminal unit installed in the parking area or in a plurality of parking areas, receiving parking-related information transmitted from the parking management server to count and display a parking remaining time; and a settlement server connected to the parking management server and processing and authenticating parking-related small amount or credit settlement by request of the parking management server.

A valet parking system for automatically bringing a vehicle to a parking space within a predefined parking area. The valet parking system includes a central control unit and a parking-space monitoring system having a stationary parking-space sensor. The parking-space monitoring system is designed to detect the current state of occupancy of the parking spaces of the parking area and to transmit that to the central control unit. The parking-space monitoring system may localize all autonomously moving or waiting vehicles that are currently in transit autonomously within the parking area either to be brought to their assigned parking space or received by their driver at a predefined pick-up location, and to transmit information about the present position of all these vehicles to the central control unit. A free parking space is assigned to the vehicle by the central control unit as a function of the geometrical dimensions of the vehicle.

The invention discloses a cloud computing and big data-based parking method and system. The method comprises the steps: a cloud server receives parking lot information query instruction of an intelligent terminal, wherein the parking lot information query instruction comprises destination data information of the intelligent terminal; according to the received parking lot information query instruction, information data collected through a plurality of parking lot terminals is searched for corresponding parking lot information, and query results are sent to the intelligent terminal. According to the cloud computing and big data-based parking method and system, a car owner can quickly and comprehensively learn about the information of charge of a parking lot nearby the destination, real-time available parking spaces and the like; by comprehensively analyzing factors, such as weather, road conditions, major events which affect the traffic nearby the destination, and parking lot selection of car owners who frequently park nearby, the optimal parking lot and path are provided for the user, thus, the car owner can quickly make a wise selection even in a strange place or environment, and the parking efficiency can be improved.

A parking lot management system comprising a computer host, a handheld device, an entrance sensor, an entrance camera, an entrance stop, an exit sensor, an exit camera, and an exit stop is disclosed. The handheld device interactively transmits data with the entrance sensor and the exit sensor by near-field communication techniques. Each of the entrance camera and the exit camera takes a photo and acquires a license plate number of a vehicle and communicates this information with the computer host. After the computer host confirms and verifies some specific data, the computer host sends instructions to the entrance stop or the exit stop for allowing the vehicle to either enter or exit a parking lot. When exiting the parking lot, the parking fee is paid by the electronic wallet of the handheld device.

The invention discloses a system for remotely inquiring and reserving parking spaces of parking lots. The system consists of parking space sensors, concentrators, parking lot managing computers, a central processing computer, wired / wireless mobile communication networks, a parking space information receiving / transmitting device, a global positioning system (GPS) satellite navigation positioner, a city electronic traffic map, information processing management software, a parking-lot parking space database, a mobile phone payment system and a mobile phone short message platform. By the system, the parking lots nearby a destination and idle parking spaces in the parking lots can be inquired by vehicle owners in advance, vehicles can be driven to satisfying parking lots under the guiding action of a GPS navigation system, and satisfying idle parking spaces can be quickly and conveniently selected for parking the vehicles under the guiding action of a parking space distribution map, so that the phenomena of universally searching the parking lots aimlessly and universally searching the parking spaces in the parking lots aimlessly are prevented, and a large amount of time is saved and great convenience is provided for the vehicle owners. The vehicle owners can reserve the parking spaces in advance or eliminate the reservation.

The invention relates to a dynamic parking navigation system used at the inner part of a parking lot. The dynamic parking navigation system is formed by the connection of an on-vehicle parking navigation terminal, a parking lot navigation server and a wireless parking space detecting network through wireless communication. The wireless parking space detecting network is formed by the connection of parking space detectors through wireless communication, and the parking space detectors are respectively arranged on parking spaces. The on-vehicle parking navigation terminal is arranged in a vehicle to be parked. By integrating the functions of detecting as well as collecting the parking spaces in the parking lot and positioning as well as navigating the vehicle to be parked, the dynamic parking navigation system thoroughly solves the problems of difficult parking space finding and difficult parking at the inner part of the parking lot, and meanwhile is convenient for a parking user to quickly as well as accurately find the target parking space. With full-automatic and intelligent navigation, the dynamic parking navigation system is of great significance in increasing the parking efficiency of the large-sized parking lot particularly the indoor parking lot, shortening the finding as well as waiting time of the user, and improving the utilizing rate of the parking spaces.

An apparatus for providing a parking management service includes: a client terminal for providing a user with a parking management service in a parking lot by using communication environment; a first sensor node, installed in a parking area in the parking lot, for sensing whether there is a vehicle in the parking area; a second sensor node, installed at a vehicle movement section in the parking lot, for sensing a vehicle moving in the parking area; and a parking management server for receiving sensing information from the first and second sensor nodes, generating real-time parking lot information, and providing the generated real-time parking lot information to the client terminal. The apparatus further includes a network provided among the client terminal, the first sensor node, the second sensor node and the parking management server for transmitting information for a parking management.

The invention discloses a parking lot control system. The parking lot control system comprises an entrance detection terminal, a vehicle guide device, an information storage device, a guide prompt device, a vehicle positioning device, a guide route correcting device and a plurality of parking space detection terminals. The entrance detection terminal is used for obtaining vehicle information of vehicles entering a parking lot in the position of the entrance of the parking lot. The information storage device is used for storing preset vehicle information and the vehicle information obtained through the entrance detection terminal, wherein each piece of preset vehicle information corresponds to a parking space. The vehicle positioning device is used for positioning vehicles running on passageways inside the parking lot. The vehicle guide device is used for generating guide routes between the current positions of vehicles and the target parking spaces according to the preset vehicle information. The guide route correcting device is used for correcting the guide routes. The guide prompt device is used for guiding vehicles to run to the parking spaces according to the guide routes. According to the parking lot control system, vehicles can be guided to smoothly run into the parking spaces in the parking lot, parking time is shortened, and the utilization efficiency of the parking spaces in the parking lot is improved.

The invention relates to an automatic parking system based on a mobile robot trolley. The automatic parking system is mainly and technically characterized by comprising a parking lot, the mobile robot trolley and a parking lot intelligent control system, wherein a plurality of rows of parking spaces, a plurality of lines of parking spaces and mobile robot trolley rotating spaces are arranged on the ground of the parking lot, a non-rail type vehicle guide device is paved on the ground of the parking lot, a vehicle access chamber and a center control chamber are arranged in the parking lot, the parking lot intelligent control system is arranged in the center control chamber and is connected with the mobile robot trolley and the vehicle access chamber, and the mobile robot trolley supports vehicles to be accessed for realizing the vehicle access through being controlled by the parking lot intelligent control system. The automatic parking system has the advantages that the design is reasonable, and the flexible dispatching on the vehicles to be accessed and the flexible vehicle access can be carried out through the mobile robot trolley and the corresponding control system, so the functions of high-density storage, fast response and safe service are realized, and the automatic parking system has the characteristics that the building and maintenance cost is low, the access is convenient, the energy is saved, the environment is protected, and the like.

An optical fiber distribution enclosure includes a housing defining an interior, a first fiber distribution area disposed within an upper portion of the interior, a second fiber distribution area disposed within a lower portion of the interior and a signal splitting area disposed between the fiber distribution areas. A splitter module secured within the signal splitting area has a connectorized splitter input optical fiber and connectorized splitter output optical fibers. A fiber parking area is movably disposed within the lower portion adjacent the second fiber distribution area for temporarily storing splitter output optical fibers that are not routed to the fiber distribution areas. An input fiber distribution area disposed within the interior interconnects an optical fiber of a feeder cable with the splitter input optical fiber. The splitter output optical fibers are eventually routed to a fiber distribution area and interconnected with a corresponding optical fiber of a distribution cable.

An automated parking garage includes a three-dimensional warehousing facility for receiving a vehicle at a delivery bay, storing the vehicle in a parking area, and retrieving the vehicle from the parking area. The parking garage includes mechanical elements for transporting the vehicle between the delivery bay and the parking space, namely, at least one shuttle vehicle and at least one elevator. A central computer is in electrical communication with each of the mechanical elements to control the movement of the corresponding elements in the facility. A main catwalk extends the length of the facility to define parking spaces in the parking area to receive at least two vehicles, each vehicle having a front end and a rear end, with the desired end of each vehicle adjacent the main catwalk.

A method for determining parking availability includes receiving video data from a sequence of frames taken from an image capture device that is monitoring a parking area. The method includes determining background and foreground images in an initial frame of the sequence of frames. The method further includes updating the background and foreground images in each of the sequence of frames following the initial frame. The method also includes determining a length of a parking space using the determined background and foreground images. The determining includes computing a pixel distance between a foreground image and one of an adjacent foreground image and an end of the parking area. The determining further includes mapping the pixel distance to an actual distance for estimating the length of the parking space.

The invention discloses a parking lot parking space remote reservation system and a parking lot parking space remote reservation method. The parking lot parking space remote reservation system is composed of a cloud center server, a mobile phone client, a system remote management terminal and a parking lot management terminal, wherein the mobile phone client, the system remote management terminal and the parking lot management terminal are connected with the cloud center server. A user searches nearby empty parking space information in real time through the mobile internet by using the mobile phone client, and an empty parking space of any nearby parking lots can be reserved through a parking space remote reservation function, thereby ensuring the effectiveness of vehicle owners in parking space searching. According to the invention, parking lot parking space information and mobile phone users are effectively connected, thereby being capable of effectively improving the utilization rate of parking lot parking spaces, and increasing income of parking lots.

A method and system for determining the vacancy of a parking space is described that allows a customer to remotely receive information about parking space availability before arriving at a parking lot or structure. This system allows the customer to determine whether there are parking spaces available to park a vehicle and where such parking space(s) are located before the customer arrives at the parking lot or structure.

A method for use in the management of vehicle parking in a vehicle parking area having a plurality of vehicle parking spaces, the method comprising determining the locations of vacant vehicle parking spaces; and displaying the locations of vacant vehicle parking spaces to people seeking to park vehicles.

A vehicle leveling system including at least one level sensor, a controller and an output. The sensor measures how level the vehicle is relative to horizontal. Optionally, it does so dynamically, as the vehicle moves across a potential parking area. The controller analyzes the sensor measurements, and informs the operator via the output whether the vehicle is level in a given direction, whether the vehicle is leveling, whether the vehicle can be leveled at a given location, and / or the “best” leveling that the system is capable of at a location. The system also may automatically level the vehicle relative to the ground for the operator. In one embodiment, the leveling system communicates with an existing vehicle electronic height control system. The leveling system overrides or controls the normal operation of this system, and uses it to level the vehicle, for example, by adjusting the vehicle suspension.