Vehicle parking monitoring systems and methods
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAndrew Gliesman, Megan Worrel, David Kramer
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Abstract
Vehicle parking monitoring systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example method can include receiving images from a camera of a parking spot, each of the images being time stamped, determining presence of a vehicle in the images, placing a bounding area around a region of interest of the vehicle, the region of interest including no personally identifiable information, retaining the bounding area and discarding a remainder of the images, and determining when the vehicle is no longer present based on a change in the bounding area of the images.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving images of a parking spot from a camera, wherein each of the images is time stamped;
- determining presence of a vehicle in the images;
- placing a bounding area around a region of interest of the vehicle, wherein the region of interest includes no personally identifiable information;
- retaining the bounding area and discarding a remainder of the images;
- and
- determining, based on a change in the bounding area of the images, that the vehicle is no longer present.
A system, comprising:
- an imaging device that obtains images of a parking spot, wherein each of the images is time stamped;
- and
- an image processing unit comprising a processor and memory for storing instructions, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to:
- determine presence of a vehicle in the images;
- activate a counter to track a parking time for the vehicle;
- place a bounding area around a region of interest of the vehicle, wherein the region of interest includes no personally identifiable information;
- retain the bounding area and discard a remainder of the images that do not include the bounding area, wherein relative coordinates of the bounding area are used to obtain the bounding area from each of the images;
- and
- determine when the vehicle is over parked based on a lack of changes in the bounding area and the parking time for the vehicle exceeding an allotted time period.
A device, comprising:
- a processor and memory for storing instructions, the processor executing the instructions to:
- receive images from a camera of a parking spot, wherein each of the images is time stamped;
- determine a presence of a vehicle in the images;
- place a bounding area around a region of interest of the vehicle, wherein the region of interest includes no personally identifiable information;
- retaining the bounding area and discarding a remainder of the images;
- and
- determine that the vehicle is no longer present based on a change in the bounding area of the images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.