Parking Automated Management System and Method

Abstract

This invention is an automated parking management system, comprising license plate camera units, document camera units, and occupant camera units installed around parking spaces to capture relevant images; a control processing device with an image recognition unit to receive the images captured by the aforementioned camera units and convert them into digital data, and a calculation processing unit to compare and determine whether the digital data meets parking requirements, and then a control unit connected to an alarm unit to issue an alarm signal to the parking space that does not meet the parking requirements; and a parking settlement device with a settlement camera unit to capture and recognize images of approaching persons, which are compared by the calculation processing unit, and the settlement data of the relevant vehicle is displayed on the parking settlement device by the control unit for settlement, and if no match is found, the vehicle data is manually entered to complete the settlement.

Claims

1. An automated parking management system, comprising: A license plate camera unit is installed around the parking space, with its lens pointed at the entrance and exit of the parking space to capture the license plates of vehicles entering and exiting the parking space; a document camera unit is installed around the parking space, with its lens pointed at the location where the vehicle's documents are placed after parking, to capture the vehicle's documents; a occupant camera unit is installed around the parking space, with its lens covering the area around the vehicle to capture the occupants entering and exiting the vehicle; and a warning unit is installed around the parking space to issue warning signals. The control processing device includes an image recognition unit, a processing unit, a control unit, and a memory unit. The image recognition unit receives images captured by the license plate camera, document camera, and occupant camera for the same parking space and converts them into digital data. The processing unit retrieves comparison data from the memory unit based on the parking space and determines whether the digital data meets the parking requirements. The control unit controls the warning unit to immediately issue a warning signal for parking spaces that do not meet the parking requirements. The device also includes a parking settlement device with a settlement camera unit that captures images of approaching individuals. These images are converted into digital data by the image recognition unit and compared with known occupant information by the processing unit. The control unit then controls the parking settlement device to directly display the vehicle settlement information matching the occupant for settlement. If no matching is found, the vehicle information is manually entered to complete the settlement.

2. The automated parking management system as described in claim 1, wherein, The control and processing device is an artificial intelligence (AI) device.

3. The automated parking management system as described in claim 1, wherein, The position, angle, and distance of the license plate camera unit, the document camera unit, the occupant camera unit, or the settlement camera unit can be adjusted by the control unit to achieve better shooting results.

4. The automated parking management system as described in claim 1, wherein, The document camera unit and the occupant camera unit are combined in the same camera device. The image recognition unit distinguishes the captured content as the document or the occupant for subsequent comparison.

5. The automated parking management system as described in claim 1, wherein, The warning unit can be a light unit or a sound unit.

6. A method for automated parking lot management, comprising: The system photographs the license plate of vehicles preparing to enter parking spaces, identifies and compares the license plate to confirm whether the vehicle meets the eligibility requirements for the parking space. If it does not meet the requirements, a warning signal is issued to remind the driver not to enter. After the vehicle enters the parking space, the vehicle's documents are photographed and identified. If the document image is not obtained from the designated location, or if the document content does not meet the requirements of the parking space, a warning signal is issued to remind the driver to place the valid document as required, or to move the vehicle to find another parking space. At the same time as photographing the documents, the system also photographs and identifies the occupants of the vehicle, obtaining the biometric data of each occupant. When the vehicle is about to leave and settle the payment, any one of the occupants goes to the parking settlement device. The parking settlement device photographs and identifies the occupant and displays the vehicle settlement information that matches the occupant for settlement. If no matching information is found, the vehicle information is manually entered to complete the settlement.

7. The automated parking management method as described in claim 6, wherein, The image capture, identification, and identity verification of the vehicle, the documents, and the occupants were conducted with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

8. The automated parking management method as described in claim 6, wherein, in, The warning signal can be a light signal or an audible signal.

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