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System and method for delivering parking information to motorists

  • US 6,694,259 B2
  • Filed: 10/17/2001
  • Issued: 02/17/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A server based method for automatically reporting vacant parking stalls comprising:

  • a) accessing a plurality of digital images, each image associated with a portion of a parking facility and each image covering a plurality of parking stalls;

    b) performing computerized image processing on each image to automatically detect vacant parking stalls of said plurality of parking stalls;

    c) indexing a map database with information regarding said vacant parking stalls of each image to determine physical locations of vacant parking stalls of said parking facility;

    d) reporting information regarding a portion of said vacant parking stalls of said parking facility; and

    e) a motorist conveying native language information to said server and wherein said information of d) is reported in a language-specific format based on said native language of said motorist.

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