Parking control apparatus, parking control method and parking control system

• US 9,520,063 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2014
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HL Klemove Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mando Corporation
• Inventors: Noh, Tae Bong
• Primary Examiner(s): Yacob, Sisay
• Application Number:
  US14/306,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20150054661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 340/435, 340/903, 340/932.2, 701/23, 701/400, 701/527, 180/272
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/027 Parking aids, e.g. instruction means
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/141 with means giving the indication of available parking spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/146 where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/147 where the parking area is within an open public zone, e.g. city centre

Abstract

The present invention relates to a parking control technology. In particular, the present invention relates to a parking control apparatus, a parking control method, and a parking control system which may search a plurality of parking space around a vehicle and allocate identification information to each of the searched parking spaces.

Claims

1. A parking control apparatus comprising:

a space search unit configured to search a space to park a vehicle;

a searched space management unit configured to allocate identification information to the searched space; and

a parking space selection unit configured to select the searched space as a parking space to actually park the vehicle,

wherein the space search unit searches for another space to park the vehicle when the searched space is not selected,

wherein the identification information is allocated to correspond to each of the searched spaces,

wherein the identification information is at least one of an identification number which is allocated to at least one of the searched spaces in order based on the searched order of the searched spaces, and

wherein the searched space management unit performs a control such that space images for the searched spaces are displayed on separate screen pages of a display apparatus as the vehicle moves and performs a control such that each of the identification information allocated to correspond to each of the searched spaces is further displayed on the display apparatus in a corresponding screen page.

2. The parking control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the space search unit is configured to recognize an object around the vehicle through a search apparatus and to search one or more spaces based on a result of recognizing the object.

3. The parking control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the parking space selection unit selects the parking space by receiving an input of driver selection information for the one of the searched spaces from the display apparatus.

4. The parking control apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the space is searched and then the other space is searched by the space search unit, the parking space selection unit suppresses the previously searched space from being selected as the parking space.

5. The parking control apparatus of claim 1, wherein a plurality of spaces are searched.