US 2019/0197898 A1 · VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE DYNAMIC PARKING FINDER ASSISTANT

Abstract

A method of assisting a driver of a first vehicle to find an empty parking space, the method including: receiving at the first vehicle V2V communications from at least one other vehicle within a parking area of interest for the first vehicle; analyzing the received V2V communications from the at least one other vehicle to determine potential available parking spaces in the parking area of interest; displaying on a display in the first vehicle one or more available parking spaces in the parking area of interest. The V2V communications comprise dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technology that includes broadcasting a basic safety message (BSM) up to ten times per second, each BSM indicating a vehicle location, a vehicle heading, and a vehicle speed of the vehicle transmitting the BSM.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method of assisting a driver of a first vehicle to find an empty parking space, the method comprising:

receiving at the first vehicle V2V communications from at least one other vehicle within a parking area of interest for the first vehicle;
analyzing the received V2V communications from the at least one other vehicle to determine potential available parking spaces in the parking area of interest;
displaying on a display in the first vehicle one or more available parking spaces in the parking area of interest;
wherein the V2V communications comprise dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technology;
and
wherein the DSRC technology includes broadcasting a basic safety message (BSM) up to ten times per second, each BSM indicating a vehicle location, a vehicle heading, and a vehicle speed of the vehicle transmitting the BSM.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/227,043Filed 20 Dec 2018

Priority

26 Dec 2017

Published

27 Jun 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G08G 1/143
With means giving the indication of available parking spaces: inside the vehicles
G08G 1/0965
Having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages: responding to signals from another vehicle, e.g. emergency vehicle
G08G 1/146
Where the indication depends on the parking areas: where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space
H04W 4/46
For vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]: for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Vehicle-to-vehicle dynamic parking finder assistant

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Vehicle-to-vehicle dynamic parking finder assistant

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Abstract

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