USER INTERFACES FOR PARKING ZONE CREATION

• US 20160306535A1
• Filed: 04/14/2016
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ubicquia IQ LLC
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Krishnamoorthy, Lokesh Babu, Okamoto, Kevin Koji, Hackett, Aileen Margaret
• Granted Patent: US 10,380,430 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0185 Product, service or business identity fraud
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30264 Parking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/73 using feature-based methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0116 from roadside infrastructure, e.g. beacons
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/148 Management of a network of parking areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6811 based on the image signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof

Abstract

A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for creating a parking zone with an associated parking policy is presented. The method may include causing display of a user interface for receiving information describing a parking zone including at least one parking space. The method may further include receiving location data describing a location of the at least one parking space included in the parking zone, and generating a parking zone data object that includes the location data. The method may further include receiving a parking policy definition defining a parking policy that includes one or more parking rules associated with the parking zone. The method further including modifying the parking zone data object to include the parking policy, and persisting the parking zone data object to the data store of the system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processor of a machine;

a data store storing a plurality of parking zone data objects;

a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the machine to perform operations comprising;

causing display of a parking zone creation user interface on a client device communicatively coupled to the machine, the parking zone creation user interface including data input elements for receiving information describing a parking zone, the parking zone including at least one parking space;

receiving, via the parking zone creation user interface, location data describing a location of the at least one parking space included in the parking zone;

generating a parking zone data object corresponding to the parking zone, the parking zone data object including the location data;

receiving, via the parking zone creation interface, a parking policy definition, the parking policy definition defining a parking policy, the parking policy including one or more parking rules associated with the parking zone, each of the one or more parking rules regulating parking in the at least one parking space;

modifying the parking zone data object to include the parking policy; and

persisting the parking zone data object to the data store.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the parking zone creation user interface includes a geospatial map; and

the receiving the location data includes;

receiving user input entered directly on the geospatial map, the user input specifying the location of the at least one parking space; and

converting the user input to a set of geospatial coordinates defining the location of the at least one parking space.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the user input is an outline of the location of the at least one parking space created by tracing the outline on the geospatial map using a user input device; and

the converting of the user input to the set of geospatial coordinates is based a position of the outline on the geospatial map.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving the location data includes receiving, via a data input element of the parking zone creation user interface, a set of geospatial coordinates defining the location of the at least one parking space.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the generating of the parking zone data object includes automatically assigning a parking zone identifier to the parking zone.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the operations further comprise receiving a textual description of the parking zone; and

the parking zone data object includes the textual description of the parking zone.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the operations further comprise receiving a camera identifier entered via the parking zone creation user interface, the camera identifier identifying a camera that records images depicting the at least one parking space; and

associating the camera identifier with the parking zone data object.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the associating of the camera identifier with the parking zone data object includes electronically linking the parking zone data object to a data object associated with the camera.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more parking rules includes a temporal attribute, the temporal attribute temporally limiting applicability of the at least one of the one or more parking rules to the at least one parking space.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more parking rules are selected from a list of predefined parking rules.

11. A method comprising:

causing display of a parking zone creation user interface on a client device communicatively coupled to the machine, the parking zone creation user interface including data input elements for receiving information describing a parking zone, the parking zone including at least one parking space;

receiving, via the parking zone creation user interface, location data describing a location of the at least one parking space included in the parking zone;

generating a parking zone data object corresponding to the parking zone, the parking zone data object including the location data;

receiving, via the parking zone creation interface, a parking policy definition, the parking policy definition defining a parking policy, the parking policy including one or more parking rules associated with the parking zone, each of the one or more parking rules regulating parking in the at least one parking space;

modifying the parking zone data object to include the parking policy; and

persisting the parking zone data object to the data store.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the parking zone creation user interface includes a geospatial map; and

the receiving the location data includes;

receiving user input entered directly on the geospatial map, the user input specifying the location of the at least one parking space; and

converting the user input to a set of geospatial coordinates defining the location of the at least one parking space.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the user input is an outline of the location of the at least one parking space created by tracing the outline on the geospatial map using a user input device; and

the converting of the user input to the set of geospatial coordinates is based a position of the outline on the geospatial map.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the receiving the location data includes receiving, via a data input element of the parking zone creation user interface, a set of geospatial coordinates defining the location of the at least one parking space.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the generating of the parking zone data object includes automatically assigning a parking zone identifier to the parking zone.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving a textual description of the parking zone;

and

wherein the parking zone data object includes the textual description of the parking zone.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving a camera identifier entered via the parking zone creation user interface, the camera identifier identifying a camera that records images depicting the at least one parking space;

and

associating the camera identifier with the parking zone data object.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the associating of the camera identifier with the parking zone data object includes electronically linking the parking zone data object to a data object associated with the camera.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein at least one of the one or more parking rules includes a temporal attribute, the temporal attribute temporally limiting applicability of the at least one of the one or more parking rules to the at least one parking space.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, and embodying instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

causing display of a parking zone creation user interface on a client device communicatively coupled to the machine, the parking zone creation user interface including data input elements for receiving information describing a parking zone, the parking zone including at least one parking space;

receiving, via the parking zone creation user interface, location data describing a location of the at least one parking space included in the parking zone;

generating a parking zone data object corresponding to the parking zone, the parking zone data object including the location data;

receiving, via the parking zone creation interface, a parking policy definition, the parking policy definition defining a parking policy, the parking policy including one or more parking rules associated with the parking zone, each of the one or more parking rules regulating parking in the at least one parking space;

modifying the parking zone data object to include the parking policy; and

persisting the parking zone data object to the data store.