Onboard Camera Parking Spot Annotation and Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively identify and share information about available parking spots among vehicles, leading to drivers navigating aimlessly and inefficient use of onboard vehicle intelligence for parking location detection.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing onboard cameras and sensors to capture and process 360-degree digital images, identify parking spots, and annotate their availability, with the ability to transmit this information to other vehicles or central systems for compilation and sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If drivers navigate streets aimlessly to search for parking spots, then they can find available spots, but time is lost and fuel is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of parking spots and their availability status before drivers arrive. Sensors onboard vehicles continuously scan and identify parking spots, annotate their availability, and transmit this information in advance to a central system and other vehicles, eliminating the need for drivers to search aimlessly
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where parking spot information is continuously detected, updated, and transmitted to drivers. The central system receives real-time data from multiple vehicles and redistributes it, creating an information feedback mechanism that guides drivers directly to available spots without random searching
2Loss of information
If onboard sensors and cameras are used to detect parking spots, then parking location information can be identified, but parked vehicles may occlude the field-of-view of imaging systems
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges data from multiple sources including sensors from multiple vehicles, central system databases, and complementary detection methods. When one vehicle's sensors are blocked by parked vehicles, the system combines information from other vehicles' sensors and the central system to reconstruct complete parking spot information
Solution Approach 2:
The central system acts as an intermediary that collects, processes, and distributes parking spot information. When direct sensor detection is blocked, the central system provides alternative information sources, mediating between the blocked sensors and the need for accurate parking spot detection
3Productivity
If drivers do not share knowledge of street conditions with other drivers, then each driver operates independently, but available parking spots remain underutilized and drivers continue to search inefficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a universal information sharing platform where parking spot information detected by any vehicle becomes available to all drivers. The central system and vehicle-to-vehicle communication enable multi-functional use of detected information, allowing one vehicle's detection to benefit multiple other drivers
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes an information feedback loop where detected parking spot availability is transmitted to the central system and redistributed to other vehicles. This feedback mechanism ensures that information about available spots is continuously shared across the network, improving overall utilization efficiency
Data Source
AI summary
Various systems and methods are presented regarding utilizing technology onboard a vehicle to identify and annotate a vehicle parking spot. The parking spot is identified in a digital image captured by an onboard camera and imaging system, wherein an image including the parking spot can be annotated with a shape identifying the parking spot and further annotated with information regarding the parking spot, e.g., dimensions of the parking spot, an entrance to the parking spot, whether the parking spot is occupied, a location of the parking spot, and suchlike. The parking spot information can be transmitted to a remotely located vehicle and/or a remotely located computer system configured to compile information regarding the parking spot.