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parking meter system

A parking meter and parking space technology, applied in the field of parking meters, can solve problems such as unreliability, and achieve the effect of increasing revenue

Active Publication Date: 2018-01-23
MUNICIPAL PARKING SERVICES
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[0008] Taking photos of a vehicle or its license plate after a violation has been determined may not be reliable as an unacceptably high number of violations may go uncaught if the violation cannot be identified before the vehicle leaves the camera's view

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[0040] In the following description, the invention will be explained in conjunction with various exemplary embodiments; however, these embodiments are not intended to limit the invention to any particular example, environment, application or particular implementation described herein. Accordingly, the descriptions of these exemplary embodiments are provided for the purpose of illustration only, and not for the purpose of limiting the invention. Various features or aspects described herein may also be combined into further combinations and embodiments, whether or not explicitly discussed herein, without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0041] see figure 1 , shows a parking meter 100 and an associated parking space 102 . The parking meter includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) 101 . GUI 101 may be located on one or both of the front and rear sides of the parking meter. The GUI may be touch sensitive or a separate keypad may be provided to the meter for ...

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The present invention provides a parking meter, which includes a housing, a processor, a memory, a network interface, a graphical user interface, a first camera disposed in the housing and facing outward from a first side of the housing, a microphone , a speaker, a second camera disposed in the housing and facing outward from the housing toward the parking space, a status light, and a payment acceptor. The parking meter is configured to sense the presence of a vehicle in the parking space, capture the identification number of the vehicle, transmit the identification number to a remote networked computer system, determine that a parking violation has occurred, transmit a parking violation notification to the the remote computer system, receiving payment of a fine, transmitting notification of the fine payment to the remote computer system, transmitting the time of departure of the vehicle from the first parking space to the remote computer system via the web interface, and in the The parking time period is reset to zero after the vehicle leaves the parking space.

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[0001] priority [0002] This application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 756,854, filed January 25, 2013, U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 794,596, filed March 15, 2013, October 4, 2013 U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 887,319, filed October 4, 2013, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 887,324, filed October 4, 2013, are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to parking meters, and more particularly, to automatic parking meter systems. Background technique [0004] Existing parking meters are known to increase revenue by detecting the presence or absence of a vehicle. For example, US Patent No. 4,823,928 describes an electronic parking meter system that resets a timing circuit to zero when a vehicle is no longer detected in an associated parking space. Such a parking meter is placed into an operating mode when a coin or other payment method is entered into t...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): B60Q1/48
CPCG07F17/246G07B15/02Y02T10/7072Y02T90/12Y02T10/70
Inventor T·G·胡德森J·M·寇德威尔R·C·盖吉
Owner MUNICIPAL PARKING SERVICES