Determining a parking position based on visual and non-visual factors
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, images of adjacent vehicles parked directly adjacent to an open parking space; determining, by the computing device, visual factors and non-visual factors of the adjacent vehicles based on the images; determining, by the computing device, risk scores for each of the adjacent vehicles based on the visual factor and the non-visual factors; determining, by the computing device, a parking position within the open parking space based on the risk scores; and outputting, by the computing device, information regarding the parking position.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device;
- program instructions to receive images of a plurality of adjacent vehicles parked directly adjacent to an open parking space;
- program instructions to determine visual factors and non-visual factors of the plurality of adjacent vehicles based on the images by obtaining data from a dedicated database;
- program instructions to determine a parking position within the open parking space based on the visual and non-visual factors;
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- program instructions to output information regarding the parking position,
- wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, images of a plurality of adjacent vehicles parked directly adjacent to an open parking space when a user of an autonomous vehicle instructs the autonomous vehicle to park in the open parking space;
- determining, by the computing device, visual factors and non-visual factors of the plurality of adjacent vehicles based on the images;
- determining, by the computing device, a parking position within the parking space based on the visual factors and non-visual factors;
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- outputting, by the computing device, information regarding the parking position to the user of the autonomous vehicle or to a vehicle interface system of the autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to park in the open space in accordance with the determined parking position.
A computer program product for selecting a parking space and providing navigation direction to the selected parking space, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:
- receive images of adjacent vehicles parked directly adjacent to an open parking space;
- determine visual factors and non-visual factors of the adjacent vehicles based on the images;
- determine a risk score for the open parking space based on the visual factors and non-visual factors of each adjacent vehicle;
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- output the risk score for the open parking space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.