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US 12,412,477 B2Granted
System and method of detecting vacant parking spots
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorMason B. Sutorius
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Abstract
A method of identifying vacant parking locations includes receiving sensor data captured with respect to a parking aisle and analyzing the received sensor data to detect shadows cast by parked vehicles within the parking aisle. Vacant parking spots are detected based on the detected shadows. An output is generated indicating whether a parking spot vacancy has been detected within the parking aisle.
Claims20
A method of self-parking a vehicle within a parking lot, the method comprising:
- positioning the vehicle at a first end of a first aisle;
- receiving sensor input from shadow detection sensors positioned on the vehicle with respect to the first aisle, wherein the sensor input is utilized to detect shadows cast by cars parked in the first aisle;
- and
- identifying a parking vacancy in the first aisle based on a detected gap between the detected shadows;
- wherein if no parking vacancy is detected, the vehicle is instructed to proceed to a next aisle without traveling down the first aisle.
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A process of identifying vacant parking locations, the process comprising:
- a. receiving sensor data from one or more sensors;
- b. detecting shadows in received sensor data;
- c. determining whether detected shadows in the received sensor data are vehicular shadows based on one or more measured attributes of the detected shadows;
- and
- d. detecting a vacant parking spot based on the one or more attributes of the vehicular shadows.
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A method of identifying vacant parking locations, the method comprising:
- receiving first sensor data with one or more first sensors, the one or more first sensors configured to detect image data;
- receiving second sensor data with one or more second sensors, the one or more second sensors configured to detect a presence of parked vehicles;
- and
- analyzing the received first sensor data to detect a vacant parking spot based on detected shadows, wherein analyzing the received first sensor data includes:
- detecting shadows in the received first sensor data,
- determining whether detected shadows in the received sensor data are vehicular shadows based on one or more measured attributes of the detected shadows, and
- detecting the vacant parking spot based on the one or more attributes of the vehicular shadows.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.