Automated system for vehicle tracking

• US 10,591,576 B1
• Filed: 06/07/2019
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Inventors: Tang, Qiaochu, Price, Micah, Hoover, Jason, Dagley, Geoffrey, Ghamsari, Avid
• Primary Examiner(s): Girma, Fekadeselassie
• Application Number:
  US16/434,525
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0036 of measured values, i.e. measurement on mobile and position calculation on base station
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0054 of actual mobile position, i.e. position calculation on base station
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/16 using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30244 Camera pose
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30264 Parking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

Aspects described herein may allow for vehicle tracking. Systems and methods described herein may allow a vehicle to automatically detect the presence of a physical marker at a parking space. An image of the physical marker may be processed to determine the location of the vehicle, which may be stored and/or output for display.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a wireless transceiver;

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to;

receive an indication from a parking sensor of a vehicle associated with the computing device that the vehicle has shifted into park;

capture, in response to receiving the indication and by an image sensor of the vehicle, first data indicating a first physical marker;

send, by the wireless transceiver and based on detecting the first data, the first data to a server, wherein the first data causes the server to store location information determined based on the first data, and wherein the location information corresponds to the parked vehicle;

send, by the wireless transceiver and to the server, a request to retrieve the location information;

receive, from the server, by the wireless transceiver, and in response to the request, the location information; and

cause output of the location information for display to a user.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the first physical marker comprises a QR code.

3. The computing device of claim 2, wherein the first data comprises image data corresponding to the QR code.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the parking sensor comprises an electronic sensor for determining a selected gear of the vehicle.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to validate the first data by determining that the first data comprises a location tag in a predetermined zone of an image.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to capture and send the first data based on determining, by the computing device, that a video stream captured by the image sensor comprises an instance of a QR code.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver comprises a cellular transceiver.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver comprises a Bluetooth™

transceiver, and wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to send the first data to the server by sending, by a tethered connection associated with the Bluetooth™

transceiver, the first data to the server.

9. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the vehicle comprises the computing device.

10. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an indication from a parking sensor of a vehicle that the vehicle has shifted into park;

capturing, in response to receiving the indication and by an image sensor of the vehicle, an image;

determining, by the computing device, that the image comprises first data corresponding to a first physical marker;

sending, by the computing device and based on the determining, the first data to a server, wherein the first data causes the server to store location information determined based on the first data, and wherein the location information corresponds to the parked vehicle;

sending, by the computing device and to the server, a request to retrieve the location information;

receiving, from the server, by the computing device, and in response to the request, the location information; and

causing, by the computing device, output of the location information for display to a user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first physical marker comprises a QR code.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first data comprises an image of the QR code.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the parking sensor comprises an electronic sensor for determining a selected gear of the vehicle.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein determining that the image comprises first data comprises determining that the image comprises a location tag in a predetermined zone of the image.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the location tag comprises a QR code.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein sending the first data to the server comprises sending, by a wireless transceiver of the computing device, the first data.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the wireless transceiver comprises a cellular transceiver.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the wireless transceiver comprises a Bluetooth™

transceiver, and wherein sending the first data comprises sending, by a tethered connection associated with the Bluetooth™

transceiver, the first data.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein the vehicle comprises the computing device.

20. One or more non-transitory media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

detecting, based on feedback from a parking sensor of a vehicle, that the vehicle has shifted into park;

capturing, by an image sensor of the vehicle and in response to the detecting, an image;

determining, based on detecting that the image comprises a QR code, first data corresponding to the QR code;

sending, based on the determining, the first data to a server, wherein the first data causes the server to store location information determined based on the first data, and wherein the location information corresponds to the parked vehicle;

sending, to the server, a request to retrieve the location information;

receiving, from the server and in response to the request, the location information corresponding to the QR code; and

displaying the location information on a display screen.