Parking lot mapping system
AssigneeNissan North America, Inc.
InventorsMauro Della Penna, Naoki Kojo, Daisuke Saito
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Abstract
A parking lot mapping system includes a receiver, a storage device and a controller. The receiver is configured to receive data transmitted from a plurality of vehicles, the data including a parking event and a position of each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles. The storage device is configured to store the data received by the receiver. The controller is programmed to determine that each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles is in a parking lot based on the parking event and to calculate a parking lot route based on accumulation of the data including the position of each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles.
Claims14
A parking lot mapping system, comprising:
- a server remote from a plurality of vehicles, the server comprising
- a receiver configured to receive data transmitted from a plurality of vehicles, the data including a parking event and a position of each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles,
- a storage device configured to store the data received by the receiver, and
- a controller programmed to determine that each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles has entered a parking lot based on the parking event and to generate a parking lot map, including a parking lot route based on accumulation of the data including the position of each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles after determination that each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles has entered the parking lot, the determination that each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles has entered the parking lot based on the data including the parking event received from each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles.
A parking lot mapping system, comprising:
- a location system configured to determine a position of a vehicle;
- a transmitter on board the vehicle, the transmitter configured to transmit data including a detected parking event and the position of the vehicle;
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- a server remote from the vehicle, the server comprising,
- a receiver configured to receive the data transmitted from the vehicle,
- a storage device configured to store the data received by the receiver, and
- a controller programmed to determine that the vehicle has entered a parking lot based on the parking event and to generate a parking lot map, including a parking lot route based on the data including the position of each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles after determination that each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles has entered the parking lot, the determination that each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles has entered the parking lot based on the data including the parking event received from each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.