VEHICLE MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20140172473A1
• Filed: 12/10/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHENG, KUNG-CHIEH, HE, FU-QIANG
• Application Number:
  US14/101,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20140172473A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• 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

Abstract

A vehicle managing system controlling a number of access controls of a parking lot comprises a storage unit and an assigning unit. The storage unit stores a reservation list and a parking space list. The reservation list registers identifiable information and a reserved parking area comprising at least one parking space. The parking space list registers an occupied state or an empty state of each parking space. The identifiable information is stored in a unique identifier and can be obtained by the access control when the vehicle enters or leaves the parking lot. The assigning unit determines whether there are any available parking spaces in the reserved parking area, and assigns a parking space to the vehicle if there is an empty parking space. A vehicle managing method applied to the vehicle managing system is also provided.

Claims

1. A vehicle managing system of a device capable of communicating with a plurality of access controls of a parking lot, the device comprises at least one hardware processor, the vehicle managing system comprises one or more programs, the one or more programs comprises:

a storage unit for storing a reservation list and a parking space list, wherein the reservation list registers identifiable information and a reserved parking area which comprises at least one parking space corresponding to at least one vehicle, the parking space list records the state of the parking space which comprises an occupied state and an empty state, wherein the identifiable information is stored in a unique identifier and can be obtained by the access controls when the vehicle entering the factory area; and

an assigning unit for determining whether any empty parking space of the reserved parking area corresponding to the identifiable information are available according to the parking space list, and assigning an empty parking space to the vehicle when there is at least one empty parking space of the reserved parking area available.

2. The vehicle managing system of claim 1, the vehicle managing system further comprises a checking unit for determining whether the vehicle has access permission, wherein if the vehicle has access permission, the checking unit controls the access controls to allow the vehicle to enter the factory area.

3. The vehicle managing system of claim 1, wherein the identifiable information can be a vehicle registration number, an identifier number, or the phone number of a driver of the vehicle.

4. The vehicle managing system of claim 1, further comprising:

a reservation unit for receiving the reserved parking area corresponding to the vehicle according to manual operations; and

an audit unit for determining whether the reservation information is qualified, and adding the reserved to the reservation list if the reservation parking area is qualified.

5. The vehicle managing system of claim 1, further comprising:

a controlling unit for changing the state of the parking space to the occupied state when the vehicle parking in the parking space, and changing the state of the parking space to the empty state when the vehicle leaves the parking space.

6. The vehicle managing system of claim 3, wherein the controlling unit is used for determining whether the parking space is the assigned parking space when the vehicle is parked in the parking space, and generating a message for informing the driver that the parking space is wrong if the parking space is not the assigned parking space.

7. A vehicle managing method for the vehicle managing system of a device capable of communicating with a plurality of access controls of a parking lot, the vehicle managing system is capable of executed by a processor to perform instructions stored in a storage module of the device, the device comprising one or more programs;

the vehicle managing method comprising;

providing a reservation list and a parking space list, the reservation list registers identifiable information and a reserved parking area which comprises at least one parking space corresponding to at least one vehicle, the parking space list records the state of the parking space which comprises an occupied state and an empty state, wherein the identifiable information is stored in a unique identifier and can be obtained by the access control when the vehicle enters the factory area;

determining whether any empty parking space of the reserved parking area corresponding to the identifiable information are available according to the parking space list; and

assigning an empty parking space to the vehicle when there is at least one empty parking space of the reserved parking area available.

8. The vehicle managing method of claim 7, wherein the reservation list further registers an access privilege of the vehicle, the vehicle managing method further comprising:

determining whether the vehicle has access permission, wherein if the vehicle has access permission, for controlling the vehicle to allow the vehicle to enter the factory area.

9. The vehicle managing method of claim 7, wherein the identifiable information can be a vehicle registration number, an identifier number, or the phone number of a driver of the vehicle.

10. The vehicle managing method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving the reserved parking area corresponding to the vehicle according to manual operations; and

determining whether the reserved parking area is qualified, and adding the reservation information to the reservation list if the reserved parking area is qualified.

11. The vehicle managing method of claim 7, further comprising:

changing the state of the parking space to the occupied state when the vehicle parking in the parking space, and changing the state of the parking space to the empty state when the vehicle leaves the parking space.

12. The vehicle managing method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining whether the parking space is the assigned parking space when the vehicle is parked in the parking space; and

generating a message for informing the driver that the parking space is wrong if the parking space is not the assigned parking space.