A parking management system identifies vehicles in entrance lanes, exit lanes, or both, of a parking facility and provides a real-time vehicle inventory count. One or more beacons locate point of sale (POS) devices assigned to parking attendants to determine which of them are performing vehicle transactions. Vehicles can be associated with specific transactions, as well as the transaction-authorizing attendant and the barrier gate and vehicle travel lane to which the attendant is assigned. To reduce fraud, this transaction information can be monitored in real time by a web or mobile dashboard and analyzed in real time or upon attendant end-of-shift checkout. The parking management system also implements permit parking invitation techniques that provide registration, payment in advance or on demand, or both, for parking of an invitee's vehicle. These tasks are accomplished without an inviter's knowledge about the invitee, the invitee's vehicle, or both.

The technology involves to pickups performed by autonomous vehicles. In particular, it includes identifying one or more potential pullover locations adjacent to an area of interest that an autonomous vehicle is approaching. The vehicle detects that a given one of the potential pullover locations is occupied by another vehicle and determines whether the other vehicle will be vacating the given pullover location within a selected amount of time. Upon determining that the other vehicle will be vacating the given potential pullover location within the timeframe, the vehicle determines whether to wait for the other vehicle to vacate the given pullover location. Then a driving system of the vehicle either performs a first action in order to wait for the other vehicle to vacate the given pullover location or performs a second action that is different from the first action when it is determined to not wait.

Method for operating a parking environment with at least one motor vehicle which has a vehicle system which is designed for completely automatic vehicle guidance and is operated autonomously for parking purposes in the parking environment, wherein the parking environment is assigned a motor-vehicle-external control device which is designed to set up a wireless communication link to motor vehicles which are operated autonomously in the parking environment and to coordinate the autonomous operation of the motor vehicles in the parking environment, wherein, when an alarm signal which indicates an alarm state in the parking environment is present, in particular acoustically and/or optically output via display means of the parking environment, alarm information which describes the type of alarm is transmitted, via the or a further wireless communication link, to all the autonomously operated motor vehicles which are located in the parking environment, wherein the vehicle systems of the motor vehicles receiving the alarm information evaluate said information by means of at least one measure criterion, wherein, when the measure criterion is satisfied, at least one alarm-related measure which eliminates or reduces a hazard owing to the alarm is carried out automatically.

A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle and includes an information provider configured to transmit information on a route from a parking position to a boarding position of the vehicle to a terminal device.

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method, and a program that enable processing corresponding to a recognition result with respect to a license plate of a vehicle.

On the basis of a recognition result with respect to a license plate of a vehicle in a captured image, characteristic information of the vehicle is extracted from the captured image, and processing corresponding to the extracted characteristic information of the vehicle is performed. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, a communication device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like.

The method of parking and charging the individual vehicle providing for reception by the control center of parking stations territorial network of information from the individual vehicle user about stop waypoints for vehicle parking and charging along his planned route, establishment of communication between the user and control unit of this parking station, mating the electric connector of the vehicle battery with the connector of the parking station parking/charging terminal, charging the battery and storage of the vehicle, testing the charged condition of the battery and operability of the electric vehicle, time control of vehicle connection/disconnection to/from parking terminal, provides mutual settlements between the user and parking operator, and also engages the lock to fix the vehicle at the parking terminal and disengages the lock to ensure use of the vehicle.

Disclosed are systems and methods for projecting virtual parking lines in alignment with actual parking lines to facilitate parking within a parking stall defined by the actual parking lines to prevent unnecessary damage to vehicles in an area where the actual parking lines may not exist or be visible. The system identifies the location of the actual parking lines within a defined parking area based on previously recorded actual parking line data as well as localization of the vehicle within the defined parking area relative to the nearby landmarks. Virtual parking lines are generated that correspond with the location of the actual parking lines and are projected in alignment with the actual parking lines to facilitate parking.

The disclosure describes systems and methods that are configured to measure and generate parking environment data including locations of parking spaces and their occupancy status, and to use the parking environment data to find an unoccupied parking space for a vehicle. In particular, a system is configured to determine the location and occupancy status of parking spaces based on parking environment data received from a vehicle, and to determine a location of an unoccupied parking space based on a database of parking environment data.

A system and a method for supporting automated valet parking, and an infrastructure and a vehicle therefor are provided. The method for operating a vehicle which supports automated valet parking includes initializing automated valet parking and receiving, from an infrastructure, a target position which is related to the vehicle and a guide route which guides movement to the target position. Additionally, the method includes performing automated driving by the vehicle along the guide route, and measuring a position of the vehicle based on behavior information of the vehicle and environmental information, while the vehicle performs the automated driving. The environmental information includes at least one among parking lot slot information, road signs, walls, pillars, and floor markings.

A parking lot management system according to the present disclosure includes a management apparatus, an image capturing apparatus, a cart, and a display apparatus. The management apparatus acquires, and stores as parking information, a license plate number and a spot number of a parking spot from the image capturing apparatus. Then, the management apparatus acquires, from a cart terminal of the cart, information that enables specification of the parking information of a vehicle of a customer using the cart and an identification number of the cart terminal, and stores the identification number of the cart terminal in association with the parking information. Then, the management apparatus detects return of the cart to a predetermined location, calculates a predicted time until the parking spot is freed up, and updates display on the display apparatus based on the predicted time.