SMART SPACING ALLOCATION
First Claim
1. A method of allocating space for a vehicle in a parking area, comprising:
- obtaining defined measurements for a vehicle in the parking area;
calculating a parking space in the parking area for the vehicle using said defined measurements, including determining a size and a position for the parking space in the parking area; and
marking the calculated parking space to facilitate driving the vehicle into said parking space.
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Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for allocating parking spaces for vehicles in a parking area. In one embodiment, the invention provides a system comprising a sensor system for generating output representing measurements of vehicles in the parking area, a marking system for identifying parking spaces in the parking area, and a controller for calculating parking spaces for vehicles. The controller obtains defined measurements for the vehicles in the parking area, and calculates for each of the vehicles, a respective one parking space in the parking area. In an embodiment, the controller allocates a size and a position for each parking space in the parking area, and operates the marking system to mark each parking space to facilitate driving the vehicles into the parking spaces. Embodiments of the invention dynamically allocate parking spaces based on criteria: (1) Determine the minimum space that should be enough for the size of the car that is being currently identified for parking; and (2) Maximize utilization of space by preventing improper fragmentation, where because of allocating fixed size spaces to all cars, big/small/medium, fragments of space would be wasted.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of allocating space for a vehicle in a parking area, comprising:
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obtaining defined measurements for a vehicle in the parking area; calculating a parking space in the parking area for the vehicle using said defined measurements, including determining a size and a position for the parking space in the parking area; and marking the calculated parking space to facilitate driving the vehicle into said parking space. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17)
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11. A system for allocating parking spaces for vehicles in a parking area, the system comprising:
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a sensor system for generating output representing measurements of vehicles in the parking area; a marking system for identifying parking spaces in the parking area; and a controller including one or more processor units for receiving the output from the sensor system, for using said output to obtain defined measurements for the vehicles in the parking area, for calculating for each of the vehicles, a respective one parking space in the parking area, including for each of the parking spaces, allocating a size and a position for said each parking space in the parking area, and for operating the marking system to mark said each parking space to facilitate driving the vehicles into said parking spaces. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An article of manufacture, comprising:
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at least one tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code logic to execute machine instructions in one or more processing units for allocating space for a vehicle in a parking area, said computer readable program code logic, when executing, performing the following; receiving defined measurements for a vehicle in the parking area; calculating a parking space in the parking area for the vehicle using said defined measurements, including determining a size and a position for the parking space in the parking area; and generating output to a marking system to operate the marking system to mark the calculated parking space to facilitate driving the vehicle into said parking space. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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