Method and parking system for supported parking of placement vehicles

• US 10,210,758 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2016
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Hetz, Julia, Jell, Thomas, Mogre, Parag, Rapold, Hauke Thomas, Zwick, Marcus
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Tanmay
• Application Number:
  US15/556,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20180108255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 3409322
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/141 with means giving the indication of available parking spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/146 where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/147 where the parking area is within an open public zone, e.g. city centre

Abstract

A method supports parking of placement vehicles in a parking system of a parking lot having at least one parking system apparatus. A parking region of the parking lot is scanned by a parking region sensor of the parking system and, based on the sensor information, a free and/or an occupied parking space and/or a free and/or an occupied parking area is identified by the parking system apparatus. A parking system for a parking lot for supported parking of placement vehicles is provided. The parking system has at least one parking system apparatus with a parking region sensor for identifying a parking space and/or a parking area of a parking region of the parking lot.

Claims

1. A method for supported parking of vehicles to be parked in a parking system having at least one parking system apparatus for a parking lot, which comprises the steps of:

scanning a parking region of the parking lot by a radar-based parking region sensor of the parking system apparatus;

determining a free/occupied parking bay and/or a free/occupied parking space by the parking system apparatus or by the parking system on a basis of sensor information; and

determining a size and a location of the free/occupied parking bay and/or a size or a location of the free/occupied parking space.

2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises determining sizes and locations of free/occupied parking bays and/or sizes and locations of free/occupied parking spaces of the parking region by the parking system apparatus.

3. The method according to claim 1, which further comprising determining a size and a location of a vehicle to be parked in a current parking bay and/or in a current parking space by the parking system apparatus, and that an alternate free parking bay and/or an alternate free parking space for the vehicle to be parked is determined by the parking system apparatus or by the parking system and is output to a driver of the vehicle to be parked.

4. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

determining a free parking bay and/or a free parking space for a vehicle to be parked by the parking system apparatus and is output; and

/or

running the method on the parking system.

11. The parking system according to claim 10,

wherein said radar-based parking region sensor is provided at a position in the parking system elevated in relation to the vehicle to be parked;

wherein each of said parking system apparatuses further has an input/output device, a transmit/receive device and/or an electronic and/or an electromagnetic interface;

further comprising an output facility, an output device, and/or a virtual interface for an output of information; and

further comprising a processing device programmed to perform the method according to claim 1.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method may be or is carried out in absence of geographic coordinates or in absence of pre-stored geographic coordinates.

5. A parking system for a parking lot for supported parking of vehicles to be parked, the parking system comprising:

at least one parking system apparatus with a radar-based parking region sensor for determining a parking bay and/or a parking space of a parking region of the parking lot, wherein a size and a location of a vehicle to be parked in a current parking bay and/or in a current parking space, is able to be determined by said parking system apparatus.

6. The parking system according to claim 5, wherein a free parking bay and/or a free parking space for the vehicle to be parked is able to be determined by said parking system apparatus.

7. The parking system according to claim 5, wherein:

a size and/or a location of the vehicle already left standing in the parking bay and/or in the parking space is able to be determined by said parking system apparatus; and

/or

an alternate parking bay and/or an alternate parking space for the vehicle to be parked possibly temporarily left standing is able to be determined such that the parking bay and/or the parking space needs a comparatively small surface area in the parking region.

9. The parking system according to claim 5, wherein said parking system apparatus:

is able to output or will output parking costs for a reserved parking bay and/or for a reserved parking space;

is able to output or will output current parking costs for a current parking bay and/or the current parking space;

is able to output a location of an alternate parking bay and/or of an alternate parking space; and

/or

is able to output or will output alternate parking costs for the alternate parking bay and/or the alternate parking space to a driver of the vehicle to be parked.

10. The parking system according to claim 5, wherein said parking system apparatus is one of a plurality of parking system apparatuses for a plurality of parking regions, wherein each of said parking system apparatuses has said radar-based parking region sensor.

15. The parking system according to claim 5, wherein:

parking costs arising in a future are able to be calculated for a reserved parking bay and/or a reserved parking space in which the vehicle to be parked is likely to be able to be parked; and

/or

current parking costs for a current parking bay and/or a current parking space, in which the vehicle to be parked are able to be calculated and/or alternate parking costs for an alternate parking bay and/or an alternate parking space, in which the vehicle to be parked is further able to be parked, are able to be calculated.

8. A parking system for a parking lot for supported parking of vehicles to be parked, the parking system comprising:

at least one parking system apparatus with a radar-based parking region sensor for determining a parking bay and/or a parking space of a parking region of the parking lot, wherein a size and a location of a vehicle to be parked in a current parking bay and/or in a current parking space, is able to be determined by said parking system apparatus; and

parking costs for the vehicle to be parked are also calculated by said parking system apparatus.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions which when executed on a processor perform a method for supported parking of vehicles to be parked in a parking system having at least one parking system apparatus for a parking lot, which comprises the steps of:

scanning a parking region of the parking lot by a radar-based parking region sensor of the parking system apparatus;

determining a free/occupied parking bay and/or a free/occupied parking space by the parking system apparatus or by the parking system on a basis of sensor information; and

determining a size and a location of the free/occupied parking bay and/or a size or a location of the free/occupied parking space.

13. A parking infrastructure for parking of vehicles to be parked in/on a facility for parked vehicles, comprising:

at least one parking system processor programmed to;

scan a parking region of the facility for parked vehicles using a radar-based parking region sensor;

determine a free/occupied parking bay and/or a free/occupied parking space on a basis of sensor information; and

determine a size and a location of the free/occupied parking bay and/or a size or a location of the free/occupied parking space.

14. The parking infrastructure according to claim 13, wherein:

the parking infrastructure is embodied as a facility for parked vehicles retrofitted with a parking system;

the parking infrastructure will be and/or is designed as a facility for parked vehicles together with the parking system; and

/or

the facility for parked vehicles is embodied as a parking zone, a parking lot, a multi-story parking lot or a parking garage.