A device that monitors an abnormal situation that has occurred in a region inside or around a parking lot using a vehicle in the region includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires state information representing a state within the region; an abnormality detection unit that detects the abnormal situation and specifies an occurrence location of the detected abnormal situation based on the state information; and a command transmission unit that transmits a command for activating a vehicle exterior monitoring sensor provided in the vehicle parked around the occurrence location specified by the abnormality detection unit and causing the vehicle exterior monitoring sensor to detect the occurrence location to the parked vehicle.

Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for managing parking monitoring and enforcement. In one aspect, a method of determining whether a vehicle is present in a parking space includes monitoring the parking space with a first vehicle detection technique utilizing image processing and monitoring the parking space with a second vehicle detection technique that does not utilize image processing. The parking space can be monitored with a third vehicle detection technique that is different than the first and second vehicle detection techniques. A conclusion that a vehicle has entered or left the parking space can be determined upon a agreement of the multiple techniques employed.

A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a camera image when the vehicle stops by a non-determined parking lot and acquires feature points of a ground of an entrance of the non-determined parking lot as non-compared entrance feature points from the camera image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines whether the non-determined parking lot is a registered parking lot by comparing information on the non-compared entrance feature points with registered entrance feature point information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus executes a parking assist control with using the currently-acquired parking lot information and the registered parking lot information when the vehicle parking assist apparatus determines that the non-determined parking lot is the registered parking lot.

A feature detection device includes a processor configured to determine whether a vehicle is parked, based on at least one of the speed, steering angle, and shifter position of the vehicle; detect one or more predetermined features from a first image representing a first area around the vehicle in a section of road in which the vehicle is traveling, the first image being generated by a first camera provided on the vehicle, and detect the one or more predetermined features from a second image representing a second area closer to the vehicle than the first area in a section of road in which the vehicle is parked, the second image being generated by a second camera provided on the vehicle.

A moving body support system supports a moving body that recognizes a marker arranged in a predetermined area. The moving body support system estimates brightness at a position of the marker in the predetermined area without using an image captured by a camera mounted on the moving body. The moving body support system calculates a luminance correction value of an image including the marker according to the brightness at the position of the marker. The moving body support system acquires a first image including a target marker around the moving body by using the camera. The moving body support system generates a second image by correcting luminance of the first image by using the luminance correction value for the target marker. Then, the moving body support system recognizes the target marker based on the second image.

A method of providing surrounding information of a vehicle includes: detecting at least one sensor-based obstacle using sensor detection information acquired through a surroundings sensor, detecting at least one image-based obstacle using image information acquired through a plurality of cameras, detecting at least one matched obstacle from the at least one sensor-based obstacle or the at least one image-based obstacle, and correcting the position of the at least one matched obstacle using at least one of a sensor-based detection result or an image-based detection result with respect to the at least one matched obstacle.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for a detection system for a vehicle. The detection system includes at least one of a camera or a sensor. The camera is configured to capture image data of a surrounding environment. The sensor is configured to detect sensor data. The detection system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is coupled to the camera and is configured to determine that there is an available parking spot or a person is positioned on a side of a road based on the image data or the sensor data. The electronic control unit is configured to provide a location of the available parking spot or the person to another device or to the vehicle.

An image processor includes a parking area line detection portion configured to detect a parking area line from an image acquired by an imaging device, a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame based on the detected parking area line, a parking frame selection portion configured to calculate a length ratio of adjacent first and second sides of the set parking frame, determine the parking frame as a display target when the length ratio falls within a predetermined range, and not to determine the parking frame as the display target when the length ratio falls outside the predetermined range, and a display control portion configured to control a display portion for displaying a parking frame image showing the parking frame determined as the display target by the parking frame selection portion so as to keep superimposing the parking frame image onto the image.

The present disclosure provides various approaches for smart area monitoring suitable for parking garages or other areas. These approaches may include ROI-based occupancy detection to determine whether particular parking spots are occupied by leveraging image data from image sensors, such as cameras. These approaches may also include multi-sensor object tracking using multiple sensors that are distributed across an area that leverage both image data and spatial information regarding the area, to provide precise object tracking across the sensors. Further approaches relate to various architectures and configurations for smart area monitoring systems, as well as visualization and processing techniques. For example, as opposed to presenting video of an area captured by cameras, 3D renderings may be generated and played from metadata extracted from sensors around the area.

Systems and methods for virtual vehicle parking assistance are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining a current vehicle position and vehicle dimensions of a vehicle, determining parking space dimensions of a parking space, receiving a desired parking position for the vehicle through an augmented reality interface, the augmented reality interface including a three-dimensional vehicle model based on the vehicle dimensions, the augmented reality interface being configured to allow a user to virtually place the three-dimensional vehicle model in the parking space to determine the desired parking position, determining a virtual parking procedure for the vehicle based on the desired parking position selected by the user and the parking space dimensions of a parking space and causing the vehicle to autonomously park based on the virtual parking procedure.