PARKING LOT SYSTEM

• US 20130339024A1
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KOJIMA, Toshihiro
• Application Number:
  US13/915,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339024A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

A parking lot system includes a camera that photographs an image including a number plate of a vehicle, and generates a first image; an image analysis section that performs a number analysis processing to analyze the first image and acquire number information described on the number plate of the vehicle; a storage section that stores the number information and parked position information of the vehicle associated with one another; a speech acquisition section to acquire the voice of the user; a speech recognition section that performs a speech recognition processing on the voice; and an output section that performs an output processing to retrieve the number information from the storage section based on the result of the speech recognition processing and notifies the user of the parked position information.

Claims

1. A parking lot system in a system for managing a parking lot, comprising:

a camera that photographs an image including a number plate of a vehicle, and generates a first image;

an image analysis section that performs a number analysis processing to analyze the first image and acquire number information described on the number plate of the vehicle;

a storage section that stores the number information and parked position information of the vehicle associated with one another;

a speech acquisition section to acquire the voice of the user;

a speech recognition section that performs a speech recognition processing on the voice; and

an output section that performs an output processing to retrieve the number information from the storage section based on the result of the speech recognition processing and notifies the user of the parked position information.

2. The parking lot system according to claim 1, wherein the camera photographs a plurality of the images with different periods of exposure time, and the first image is generated by compositing the plurality of the images.

3. The parking lot system according to claim 2, wherein the parking lot has a plurality of divided blocks where the vehicle can be parked, the parked position information indicates one of the divided blocks where the vehicle is parked, and the camera is installed at each of the divided blocks.

4. The parking lot system according to claim 3, further comprising a sensor at each of the divided blocks, for detecting parking of the vehicle, the camera generating the first image upon detection by the sensor of parking of the vehicle.

5. The parking lot system according to claim 4, further comprising a judgment section, the storage section storing predetermined registration number information, and the judgment section comparing the predetermined number information with the number information.

6. The parking lot system according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined register number is stored in the storage section through a network.

7. The parking lot system according to claim 6, wherein the judgment section communicates through the network when the number information coincides with the predetermined registration number.

8. The parking lot system according to claim 7, wherein a signal of the voice is stored in the storage section, when the speech recognition processing judges that the voice coincides with the predetermined registration number.

9. The parking lot system according to claim 8, further comprising a display section, the output processing being a processing to display the parked position information at the display section.