Method for determining application interface of vehicle entering gas station or charging station scene based on license plate graphics

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for determining an application interface for a vehicle entering a gas station or charging station scene based on a license plate graphic. The present disclosure is to scan the license plate graphic through an application running on a user terminal, and a cloud platform sends the application interface of the scene where the license plate graphic corresponds to the vehicle to the user terminal, thereby realizing fee settlement and information query for the car in multiple scenes. During the whole process, the user does not need to find and scan the QR code provided by the gas station or charging station scene, thus avoiding the disadvantage that parking service providers need to deploy a large number of QR codes online and offline.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of vehicle networking technology, and in particular to a method for determining an application interface for a scene in which a vehicle enters a gas station or a charging station based on a license plate graphic. Background Art

[0002] The present disclosure is a divisional application with application number 201810335692.3, application date April 16, 2018, and invention name “Method and cloud platform for entering application interfaces of different scenarios based on license plate graphics”.

[0003] As vehicle services are gradually upgraded, vehicles will inevitably need to enter into more service or consumption scenarios than before, and complete operations such as settling fees or querying information in different scenarios.

[0004] The existing self-service payment method is: for the fees generated by these services, the program running on the user terminal scans the independent QR codes bound to each automobile consumption service to enter the corresponding system to complete the online electronic payment.

[0005] During the above operation, service providers in different scenarios need to deploy a large number of QR codes online and offline, which is a complicated process with low efficiency. Summary of the invention

[0006] The present disclosure provides a method for determining an application interface for a scene in which a vehicle enters a gas station or a charging station based on a license plate graphic, so as to overcome the drawback that service providers in different scenes need to deploy a large number of QR codes online and offline.

[0007] In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for determining an application interface of a vehicle entering a gas station or charging station scene based on a license plate graphic, which is applied to a gas station or charging station scene including a cloud platform, a terminal, and a license plate recognition device, wherein the license plate recognition device is arranged at the entrance of a specific scene, and the license plate recognition device corresponds to the geographic information of the specific gas station, including:

[0008] License plate recognition device: when a vehicle enters a specific gas station, collects the second license plate information of the vehicle, and sends the collected second license plate information, the entry time of the vehicle, and the geographic information to the cloud platform;

[0009] Cloud platform: determine the gas station or charging station where the vehicle is located based on the license plate recognition device that collects the second license plate information, and associate the second license plate information with the entry time and save it in the database of the cloud platform of the gas station corresponding to the geographic information; when receiving the first license plate information sent by the terminal, query the vehicle data based on the license plate number in the first license plate information, determine the gas station or charging station where the vehicle is located, and send the refueling service application interface corresponding to the gas station to the terminal or send the charging service application interface corresponding to the charging station to the terminal;

[0010] Terminal: Scan the vehicle license plate, obtain the first license plate information, and send the first license plate information to the cloud platform;

[0011] The payment operation of the refueling fee of the vehicle at the specific gas station is completed through the received refueling service application interface, or the payment operation of the charging fee of the vehicle at the specific charging station is completed through the received charging service application interface;

[0012] Among them, the first license plate information includes a license plate graphic or a license plate number; the interactive application interface contains the amount of refueling fee that should be paid at the specific gas station with the license plate information or the amount of charging fee that should be paid at the specific charging station with the license plate information, and the payment or query operation is completed in the interactive application interface.

[0013] In a feasible manner, after the terminal obtains the first license plate information, the method further includes:

[0014] The terminal recognizes the license plate pattern to obtain the license plate number;

[0015] or,

[0016] The terminal sends the license plate image to the cloud platform, and the cloud platform obtains the license plate number according to the license plate image.

[0017] In a feasible manner, before the cloud platform sends the refueling service application interface corresponding to the gas station to the terminal or sends the charging service application interface corresponding to the charging station to the terminal, it also includes:

[0018] The cloud platform stores interactive application interfaces and selectable scene interactive application interfaces in different gas station or charging station scenarios, and the gas station or charging station scene application interfaces are correspondingly stored in the different gas station or charging station scene databases.

[0019] In a feasible manner, after the terminal identifies the vehicle and obtains the first license plate information, the method further includes:

[0020] Determine whether the gas station or charging station scene information is stored in the cloud platform. If the gas station or charging station scene information is stored in the cloud platform, the cloud platform sends the interactive application interface corresponding to the gas station scene to the terminal or sends the charging service application interface corresponding to the charging station to the terminal;

[0021] Otherwise, the cloud platform can select multiple interactive application interface information in different gas station or charging station scenarios and send them to the terminal. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0022] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present disclosure or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are some embodiments of the present disclosure. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying creative labor.

[0023] Figure 1 A flow chart of a method for a terminal to enter different scene application interfaces when scene information is available provided in Embodiment 1 of the present disclosure;

[0024] Figure 2 A flow chart of a method for a terminal to enter different scene application interfaces when there is no scene information provided in Embodiment 2 of the present disclosure;

[0025] Figure 3 A flowchart of a method for determining an application interface for a scene of a vehicle entering a gas station based on a license plate graphic provided in Embodiment 3 of the present disclosure;

[0026] Figure 4 A schematic diagram of the structure of the cloud platform provided by the present disclosure; DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0027] In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the embodiments of the present disclosure clearer, the technical solution in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work are within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

[0028] The technical solution of the present disclosure is described in detail below through specific embodiments.

[0029] It should be noted that the following specific embodiments may be combined with each other, and the same or similar concepts or processes may not be described in detail in some embodiments.

[0030] Figure 1This is a flow chart of a method for a terminal to enter different scene application interfaces when scene information is provided in Embodiment 1 of the present disclosure. This embodiment specifically includes:

[0031] 101. The license plate recognition device recognizes the license plate pattern.

[0032] In the present disclosure, the license plate recognition device is a type of device that is set at the entrance of a specific scene or near a specific service area and has the function of recognizing license plate information, such as a recognition device at the entrance of a parking lot or a gas station. When a vehicle enters the specific scene or enters the specific service area, the license plate recognition device starts working, collects relevant image information including the license plate, vehicle body and other moving objects, and obtains a license plate pattern. The license plate recognition device recognizes the license plate pattern to obtain the license plate number of the vehicle, or the license plate pattern device sends the obtained license plate pattern to the cloud platform for license plate number recognition.

[0033] 102. The license plate recognition device sends information such as the license plate number and geographic location to the cloud platform.

[0034] When the vehicle enters the specific scene, the license plate recognition device also records the time information of the vehicle entering the specific scene, and sends the entry time information to the cloud platform, and saves it corresponding to the above-mentioned license plate number; when the vehicle enters the specific scene, the license plate recognition device also sends the geographic information to the cloud platform, and saves it in the scene database under different scenes corresponding to the above-mentioned license plate number, wherein the geographic information can come from the geographic information corresponding to the IP of the scene system to which the license plate recognition device is connected, or from the GPS information of the vehicle's location collected by the license plate recognition device, etc.

[0035] 103. The terminal scans the license plate graphic.

[0036] In the present disclosure, a terminal is a terminal with a program installed, such as an application program, an operating system program, etc. In this step, any terminal with a program installed uses the program to identify the license plate pattern. For example, the application program, the operating system program, etc. provide a scanning window, and the user scans the vehicle body by scanning to obtain the license plate pattern. At this time, the license plate pattern is a pattern containing the license plate number, the license plate color, etc.

[0037] 104. The terminal sends the recognized license plate number to the cloud platform.

[0038] During the process, the terminal identifies the license plate image and sends the obtained license plate number of the vehicle to the cloud platform; optionally, the terminal sends the obtained license plate image to the cloud platform, and the cloud platform identifies the information including the license plate number.

[0039] 105. The cloud platform queries the vehicle data and determines whether there is corresponding geographic information.

[0040] When the cloud platform obtains the information including the license plate number sent by the terminal, it queries the data of the vehicle corresponding to the license plate number to determine whether the data contains geographic information. In this embodiment, the query result is displayed as a subsequent operation containing the corresponding geographic information.

[0041] 106. The cloud platform sends the scene application interface corresponding to the geographic information to the terminal.

[0042] During this process, the cloud platform pushes the interactive application interface of the scene corresponding to the scene database where the geographic information is located to the terminal. The interactive application interface contains information such as time and amount of the scene. Users can complete payment or query operations on the interactive application interface.

[0043] Before all operations in the embodiments of the present disclosure are started, interactive application interfaces for different scenarios need to be saved or set up in the cloud platform, and the scenario application interfaces are correspondingly stored in the different scenario databases, wherein the classification standard of the scenario application interfaces is geographic information.

[0044] Figure 2 A flowchart of a method for a terminal to enter different scene application interfaces when there is no scene information provided in Embodiment 2 of the present disclosure, wherein the process includes:

[0045] 201. The terminal scans the license plate graphic.

[0046] In the present disclosure, a terminal is a terminal with a program installed, such as an application program, an operating system program, etc. In this step, any terminal with a program installed uses the program to identify the license plate pattern. For example, the application program, the operating system program, etc. provide a scanning window, and the user scans the vehicle body by scanning to obtain the license plate pattern. At this time, the license plate pattern is a pattern containing the license plate number, the license plate color, etc.

[0047] 202. The terminal sends the recognized license plate number to the cloud platform.

[0048] During the process, the terminal identifies the license plate image and sends the obtained license plate number of the vehicle to the cloud platform; optionally, the terminal sends the obtained license plate image to the cloud platform, and the cloud platform identifies the information including the license plate number.

[0049] 203. The cloud platform queries the vehicle data and determines that there is no corresponding geographic information.

[0050] When the cloud platform obtains the information including the license plate number sent by the terminal, it queries the data of the vehicle corresponding to the license plate number to determine whether the data contains geographic information. This embodiment displays the subsequent operation of the query result that does not contain the corresponding geographic information.

[0051] 204. The cloud platform sends the selectable scene interactive application interface to the terminal.

[0052] In this process, the cloud platform sends the selectable scene interactive application interface to the user terminal. The selectable scene interactive application interface includes all or part of the pre-stored scene database module, and the user can choose to enter the interactive application interface under a specific scene in the interactive application interface to complete the payment or query operation.

[0053] Before all operations in the embodiments of the present disclosure are started, the cloud platform needs to save or set up interactive application interfaces for different scenarios. The scenario application interfaces are stored in the different scenario databases accordingly. The scenario interactive application interface can be selected to cover all or part of the pre-stored scenario database modules.

[0054] The lack of geographic information in this embodiment means that the current location of the vehicle is not within the scope of the scene database pre-saved by the cloud platform before the operation begins; or, the vehicle has entered a scene pre-stored by the cloud platform, but due to problems with the license plate recognition equipment or other devices, the cloud platform has not stored the geographic information of the vehicle; or other situations may occur where the terminal is unable to query the corresponding geographic information in the cloud platform.

[0055] Figure 3 A flow chart of a method for determining an application interface for a vehicle entering a gas station based on a license plate graphic provided in Embodiment 3 of the present disclosure. The method is applied to a gas station scene including a cloud platform, a terminal, and a license plate recognition device, wherein the license plate recognition device is set at the entrance of a specific scene, and the license plate recognition device corresponds to the geographic information of the specific gas station, and the process includes:

[0056] 301. When a vehicle enters a specific gas station, the license plate recognition device collects the second license plate information of the vehicle.

[0057] 302. The license plate recognition device sends the collected second license plate information, vehicle entry time and geographic information to the cloud platform.

[0058] 303. The terminal scans the vehicle license plate to obtain first license plate information.

[0059] 304. Send the first license plate information to the cloud platform.

[0060] 305. The cloud platform determines the gas station where the vehicle is located based on the license plate recognition device of the collected second license plate information, and associates the second license plate information with the entry time and saves it in the cloud platform database of the gas station corresponding to the geographic information; when receiving the first license plate information sent by the terminal, the vehicle data is queried based on the license plate number in the first license plate information, the gas station where the vehicle is located is determined, and the refueling service application interface corresponding to the gas station is sent to the terminal.

[0061] 306. Complete the payment operation of the vehicle's refueling fee at a specific gas station through the received refueling service application interface.

[0062] Among them, the first license plate information includes a license plate graphic or a license plate number; the interactive application interface includes the amount of refueling fee that should be paid at the specific gas station according to the license plate information, and the payment or query operation is completed on the interactive application interface.

[0063] The present disclosure is a method for entering application interfaces of different scenarios based on license plate graphics. In order to better understand the content of the technical solution, the specific situation of the vehicle in the gas station scenario will be further described in combination with Example 1 and Example 2. Similarly, the specific embodiments in the gas station scenario are part of the present disclosure, but not all of the embodiments. Differentiated applications of vehicles in specific scenarios such as parking lots, charging stations, vehicle 4S stores, highways, etc. involving vehicle service provision, vehicle information query and fee payment operations, if based on the embodiments in the present disclosure, ordinary technicians in this field can obtain them without making creative work, and they all fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0064] In the embodiment of the gas station scenario, at least a gas station scenario database is pre-set in the cloud platform, and the gas station scenario database stores the corresponding gas station scenario interactive application interface. In this application interface, users can query information such as the amount of oil in stock, the amount of oil required, the estimated payment amount, the refueling status, etc., and can pay the refueling consumption amount after or before refueling.

[0065] In this embodiment, when a vehicle enters a gas station, the license plate recognition device at the gas station entrance or near the gas pump starts working, collecting relevant image information including the license plate, vehicle body and other moving objects, and obtaining a license plate pattern. The license plate recognition device recognizes the license plate pattern to obtain the license plate number of the vehicle, or the license plate pattern device sends the obtained license plate pattern to the cloud platform for license plate number recognition.

[0066] When the vehicle enters the specific scene, the license plate recognition device at the entrance of the gas station or near the gas pump also records the time information of the vehicle entering the gas station, and sends the entry time information to the cloud platform, and saves it corresponding to the above license plate number; when the vehicle enters the gas station, the license plate recognition device also sends the geographic information to the cloud platform, and saves it in the gas station scene database corresponding to the above license plate number, wherein the geographic information can come from the geographic information corresponding to the IP of the gas station scene system, or from the GPS information of the vehicle's location collected by the license plate recognition device.

[0067] After the user's vehicle enters the gas station scene, the user uses a terminal installed with a program, such as an application program or an operating system program, to scan the license plate pattern. If the terminal can recognize the license plate number based on the license plate pattern, the terminal recognizes the license plate pattern and sends the obtained license plate number of the vehicle to the cloud platform; if the terminal does not have the function of recognizing the license plate number through the license plate pattern, the terminal sends the obtained license plate pattern to the cloud platform, and the cloud platform recognizes the information including the license plate number.

[0068] When the cloud platform obtains information including the license plate number sent by the user terminal, it queries the data of the vehicle corresponding to the license plate number to determine whether the data contains geographic information.

[0069] If the vehicle's geographic information is found to correspond to the gas station scene, the cloud platform will send the interactive application interface under the scene database to the user terminal. The user can view and query the vehicle's fuel storage, required fuel, estimated amount, fuel status and other information in real time on the terminal, and can pay the fuel consumption amount after or before refueling.

[0070] During the entire process, users do not need to find and scan the QR code provided by the gas station, avoiding the disadvantage that parking service providers need to deploy a large number of QR codes online and offline.

[0071] The following are embodiments of the device disclosed herein, which can be used to execute the method embodiments disclosed herein. For details not disclosed in the device embodiments disclosed herein, please refer to the method embodiments disclosed herein.

[0072] Figure 4 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of the cloud platform provided by the present disclosure. Figure 4 As shown, the cloud platform 10 provided by the present disclosure includes:

[0073] The processing module 11 is used to obtain the license plate number, where the license plate number is the number corresponding to the license plate image scanned by the terminal;

[0074] An interaction module 12, used to implement information interaction between the cloud platform and the terminal or the license plate recognition device;

[0075] The storage module 13 stores interactive application interfaces in different scenarios and interactive application interfaces with selectable scenarios.

[0076] The cloud platform provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure uses the license plate number obtained by the interactive module to query the scene that the vehicle is currently in in the storage module, and sends the scene application interface to the terminal. In this process, no QR code is used, and there is no need for the service provider to deploy a large number of QR codes online and offline.

[0077] Optionally, the processing module 11 acquires the license plate number in a manner that includes: the cloud platform receives the license plate number sent by the terminal, the license plate number being obtained by the terminal recognizing a license plate pattern;

[0078] or,

[0079] The cloud platform receives the license plate image sent by the terminal, and identifies the license plate number according to the license plate image.

[0080] Optionally, the interaction module 12 is specifically used to receive the license plate information sent by the terminal;

[0081] The cloud platform sends the corresponding scene application interface queried based on the license plate information to the terminal

[0082] The license plate information includes a license plate pattern or a license plate number.

[0083] The storage module 13 stores interactive application interfaces under different scenarios and selectable scene interactive application interfaces. Specifically, the cloud platform storage module 13 saves or is set with interactive application interfaces under different scenarios. The scene application interfaces are stored in the different scene databases accordingly, and the selectable scene interactive application interfaces cover all or part of the pre-stored scene database modules.

[0084] Those skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps of implementing the above-mentioned method embodiments can be completed by hardware related to program instructions. The aforementioned program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the program is executed, the steps of the above-mentioned method embodiments are executed; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: ROM, RAM, disk or optical disk and other media that can store program codes.

[0085] Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present disclosure, rather than to limit them. Although the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that they can still modify the technical solutions described in the aforementioned embodiments, or replace some or all of the technical features therein by equivalents. However, these modifications or replacements do not cause the essence of the corresponding technical solutions to deviate from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method for determining an application interface for a vehicle entering a gas station or charging station based on a license plate pattern, applied to a gas station or charging station scene including a cloud platform, a terminal and a license plate recognition device, wherein: The license plate recognition device is arranged at the entrance of a gas station or a charging station, and the license plate recognition device corresponds to the geographic information of a specific gas station or a charging station, and is characterized by comprising: License plate recognition device: when a vehicle enters a specific gas station or charging station, collects the second license plate information of the vehicle, and sends the collected second license plate information, the entry time of the vehicle, and the geographic information to the cloud platform; Cloud platform: determine the gas station or charging station where the vehicle is located based on the license plate recognition device that collects the second license plate information, and associate the second license plate information with the entry time and save it in the database of the cloud platform of the gas station or charging station corresponding to the geographic information; when receiving the first license plate information sent by the terminal, query the vehicle data based on the license plate number in the first license plate information, determine the gas station or charging station where the vehicle is located, and send the refueling service application interface corresponding to the gas station to the terminal or send the charging service application interface corresponding to the charging station to the terminal; Terminal: Scan the vehicle license plate, obtain the first license plate information, and send the first license plate information to the cloud platform; The payment operation of the refueling fee of the vehicle at the specific gas station is completed through the received refueling service application interface, or the payment operation of the charging fee of the vehicle at the specific charging station is completed through the received charging service application interface; Among them, the first license plate information includes a license plate graphic or a license plate number; the interactive application interface contains the amount of refueling fees that should be paid at the specific gas station with the license plate information or the amount of charging fees that should be paid at the specific charging station with the license plate information, and the payment or query operation is completed on the interactive application interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that After the terminal obtains the first license plate information, the method further includes: The terminal recognizes the license plate pattern to obtain the license plate number; or, The terminal sends the license plate image to the cloud platform, and the cloud platform obtains the license plate number according to the license plate image.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Before the cloud platform sends the refueling service application interface corresponding to the gas station to the terminal or the cloud platform sends the charging service application interface corresponding to the charging station to the terminal, the method further includes: The cloud platform stores interactive application interfaces and selectable scene interactive application interfaces in different gas station or charging station scenarios, and the interactive application interfaces in the gas station or charging station scenarios are correspondingly stored in the gas station or charging station scenario database.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that: After the terminal identifies the vehicle and obtains the first license plate information, the method further includes: Determine whether the cloud platform stores the gas station or charging station scene information. If the cloud platform stores the gas station or charging station scene information, the cloud platform sends the gas station corresponding gas service application interface to the terminal or sends the charging service application interface to the terminal; Otherwise, the cloud platform sends interactive application interface information in multiple different gas station or charging station scenarios to the terminal for user selection.

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