Methods and systems for efficiently monitoring parking occupancy
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorYao Rong Wang
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Abstract
A system and method for determining parking occupancy and maintaining a database of parking occupancy data by receiving video data for a parking area from multiple video cameras, determining parking occupancy data for the parking area using the video data for the parking area, generating textual data corresponding to the parking occupancy data for the parking area, and transmitting the textual data corresponding to the parking occupancy data for the parking area to a central server. The central server can receive textual data from multiple devices and maintain and update a database of parking occupancy data based on the textual data received.
Claims20
A system for determining parking occupancy, the system comprising:
- a plurality of video cameras;
- a processing system comprising one or more processors capable of receiving data from the plurality of video cameras;
- and
- a memory system comprising one or more computer-readable media, wherein the one or more computer-readable media contain instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving video data for a parking area from the plurality of video cameras;
- determining parking occupancy data for the parking area using the video data for the parking area;
- generating textual data corresponding to the parking occupancy data for the parking area;
- and
- transmitting the textual data corresponding to the parking occupancy data for the parking area to a central server.
A method for determining parking occupancy, the method comprising:
- receiving video data for a parking area from a plurality of video cameras;
- determining, using one or more processors, parking occupancy data for the parking area using the video data for the parking area;
- generating textual data corresponding to the parking occupancy data for the parking area;
- and
- transmitting the textual data corresponding to the parking occupancy data for the parking area to a central server.
A method of maintaining a database of parking occupancy data, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a plurality of computing devices, textual data corresponding to parking occupancy data, wherein:
- each of the plurality of computing devices receives video data from a plurality of video cameras;
- and
- the textual data is generated by the plurality of computing devices based on the video data;
- parsing the textual data to determine the parking occupancy data;
- and
- updating the database of parking occupancy data based on the parking occupancy data using one or more processors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.