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US 2016/0110999 A1Published application
Methods and systems for parking monitoring with vehicle identification
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsOrhan Bulan, Edgar A. Bernal, Yao Rong Wang, Robert P. Loce
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring parking and identifying vehicles by monitoring a parking region based on video data of the parking region received from a video camera, detecting a parking event associated with a vehicle in the parking region, adjusting a view of the video camera based on the parking event, physically tracking the vehicle using the video camera, capturing an image of a license plate of the vehicle, and resuming monitoring the parking region after capturing the image of the license plate.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- monitoring a parking region based on video data of a view of the parking region received from a video camera;
- detecting, using a processor, a parking event associated with a vehicle in the parking region;
- physically tracking the vehicle by adjusting a view of the video camera;
- capturing an image of a license plate of the vehicle;
- and
- subsequent to capturing the image of the license plate, resuming monitoring the parking region by physically adjusting the view of the video camera.
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A system comprising:
- a video camera;
- a processing system comprising one or more processors capable of receiving data from the video camera;
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- 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:
- monitoring a parking region based on video data of a view of the parking region received from the video camera;
- detecting a parking event associated with a vehicle in the parking region;
- physically tracking the vehicle by adjusting a view of the video camera;
- capturing an image of a license plate of the vehicle;
- and
- subsequent to capturing the image of the license plate, resuming monitoring the parking region by physically adjusting the view of the video camera.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.