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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184019 | Data collection system for electronic parking meters There is disclosed a single space parking meter that includes a low powered radio for communicating with a mobile access point. There is also provided a parking meter management system comprising a single space parking meter and a mobile access point. The mobile acc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8169341 | Vehicle park assist system and method for parking a vehicle using such system A park assist system for parking a vehicle in a target parking space includes a sensing system. The sensing system determines whether there is a sufficient slot length in a target parking space too small to complete a parking maneuver in a single maneuver, but large... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169340 | Parking assist device and a method for electric vehicle power transmission and reception between a vehicle and a ground apparatus A parking assist device has a touch display (58) including a display unit for displaying a situation around a vehicle and an input unit for entering a target parking position of a vehicle, and also has a control device (60) performing parking assist co... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154426 | Parking assist apparatus and method The present invention is aimed at setting an efficient target track of a vehicle and thus improving convenience of the parking assist. According to the present invention, a parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle is provided. The parking assistin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138950 | Programmable parking meter and integrated paging transmitter A programmable parking meter and integrated paging transmitter is provided to warn the parking patron with a pre-violation notice that the parking time is about to expire. The programmable parking meter and integrated paging transmitter includes a rechargeable batte... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134479 | Monocular motion stereo-based free parking space detection apparatus and method A monocular motion stereo-based automatic free parking space detection system is disclosed. The system acquires image sequences with a single rearview fisheye camera, three-dimensionally reconstructs the vehicle rearview by using point correspondences, and recovers ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8120513 | Vehicle identification, tracking and enforcement system A system for monitoring and tracking vehicles in parking locations, public roadways and highway entrances and exits and other public vehicle access areas is provided, such as to monitor and track vehicles in parking spaces, public roadways and highways without the n... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115654 | Small vehicle detection system A small vehicle detector for determining a size of a vehicle entering a particular area and assigning a rate of charge based on the determined size of vehicle including an entrance for a vehicle to enter the area. The small vehicle detector further includes a vehicl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115653 | Method and device for outputting parking instructions In a method and a corresponding device for outputting parking instructions to a driver of a vehicle, the parking process is divided into a multiplicity of sections each having a constant specified steering angle, and there being situated between each two sections a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111172 | Navigation apparatus and computer program A vehicle guidance device is configured such that, in a case where a vehicle is parked in an on-street parking zone, the vehicle guidance device specifies a parking meter from among the parking meters for the on-street parking zone in which the vehicle is parked, th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098174 | Feasible region determination for autonomous parking A method is provided for initiating a parking maneuver for parallel parking a vehicle between a first object and a second object. A target parking space is measured. A determination is made whether the measured target parking space is sufficient to allow an autonomo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098173 | Parking apparatus In a parking apparatus for a vehicle, a parking space is measured and a parking trajectory into the parking space is determined by using this apparatus. A driving space for the vehicle is captured by a camera, both the parking trajectory and a turning point situated... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085167 | Parking assist apparatus A view in front of a vehicle (1) is captured, and the captured imaged is displayed on a display section. At a predetermined stop position (S1), a target parking position (S4) of the vehicle (1) is set based on the captured image. Then, a ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077054 | Garage door opener and parking guide combination A garage door opener and parking guide combination includes a housing that includes a drive assembly mechanically coupled to a garage door to selectively open or close the garage door when the drive assembly is activated. The housing is attached to a ceiling of a ga... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072352 | Cross traffic alert with parking angle trajectory The subject of the present invention is a host vehicle that determines a parking angle while backing out of a parking space and employs this parking angle when using a cross traffic alert system. The parking angle is determined based on the trajectories of the host ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063796 | Small vehicle detection system A small vehicle detector for determining a size of a vehicle entering a particular area and assigning a rate of charge based on the determined size of vehicle including an entrance for a vehicle to enter the area. The small vehicle detector further includes a vehicl... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063797 | Parking information collection system and method An integrated parking information system is disclosed. The system includes a collection system and a means for collection of parking data, and an information provision system and a method for the provision of parking information, for instance, enabling a driver to k... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8035531 | Parking support device To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035532 | Vehicle location based particulate matter filter regeneration A regeneration control system for a vehicle comprises a regeneration control module and a disabling module. The regeneration control module selectively initiates a regeneration of a particulate matter filter of the vehicle. The disabling module selectively disables ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026832 | Mobile system for exacting parking tolls Mobile systems are provided for charging electronic toll collection accounts for parking fees. The systems are configured to wirelessly request and receive tag data from an electronic toll device. Some embodiments include a vehicle and a boom, some embodiments inclu... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018351 | Method for providing assistance during a parking maneuver of a vehicle A method providing assistance during the parking maneuver of a vehicle into a parking space situated laterally to the vehicle to be parked, an erroneous length of the parking space being detected with the aid of a sensor system of the vehicle while the vehicle drive... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004426 | Systems and methods for recording parking space information A system and method for recording data associated with a parking space. The data may be received a portable electronic device, such as a cell phone. The data may be received from a computer readable medium associated with the parking space, such as a bar code. The d... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7994938 | Method and apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space A method and an apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space are provided. After receiving a starting signal from a mobile apparatus, a network node of a network apparatus generates a request signal and sends it to a processing apparatus. Then the process... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978096 | Parking angle determination and cross traffic alert The subject of the present invention is a vehicle that determines a parking angle while parking and employs the parking angle when using a cross traffic alert system while backing out of a parking space. The parking angle is used to determine areas of interest and a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969326 | Parking assist method and parking assist apparatus A parking assist apparatus outputs display of a synthesized image of the periphery of a vehicle as a bird's-eye view image, and superimposes, on the synthesized image, turning guide lines based on the current steering angle of the vehicle and straight driving guide ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7956769 | Method and system for reservation-based parking Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that facilitates parking usage. During operation, the system receives a parking reservation request from a user and obtains a set of available parking spaces based on the parking reservation request. Next, t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948399 | Parking lot congested state determination device, parking lot congested state determination method, and computer program In a case where it is determined that a vehicle is in an unparked state within a parking lot for at least a specified time, the parking lot where the vehicle is currently located is determined to be in a congested state, and information that pertains to the parking ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940193 | Parking assist apparatus A parking assist apparatus assisting a parking operation of a vehicle includes an image capturing portion capturing an image of a backward view of the vehicle, a displaying portion displaying the captured image at an inside of the vehicle, a guiding portion guiding ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940194 | Position registration device, route search device, position registration method, position registration program, and recording medium A position registering apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information concerning a mobile object; a position identifying unit that identifies a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map inf... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936284 | System and method for parking time estimations The invention provides a system for parking time estimations, the system comprising at least one device able to sense at least momentary location and respective time; and an application server to receive from a plurality of the devices time series of location points... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936283 | Method for detecting parking area by using range sensor A parking space is detected by using a range sensor. Distance data in a predetermined period is collected by using the range sensor according to a user's selection and mapping the collected distance data on a coordinates system based on a parking space searching veh... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7924171 | Parking assist apparatus and method A parking assisting apparatus and method that can precisely estimate the orientation of a parking space. A parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle includes an obstacle detecting mechanism that detects an obstacle near the vehicle and an orientati... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920070 | Parking guidance device and method thereof A parking guidance device storing the information of length and width of a car is disclosed, which comprises: a central controller, a distance detector electrically connecting to said central controller for detecting the distances from obstacles, an image detector e... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907064 | Parking position search assisting apparatus, method and program An image-taking control section determines, based on information outputted from a location information obtaining section, whether a vehicle has entered a car park. When the vehicle has entered the car park, an image storage section stores, at predetermined time inte... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7893848 | Apparatus and method for locating, identifying and tracking vehicles in a parking area A method for use in the management of vehicle parking in a vehicle parking area having a plurality of vehicle parking spaces, the method comprising determining the locations of vacant vehicle parking spaces; and displaying the locations of vacant vehicle parking spa... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893847 | Real time detection of parking space availability Methods, systems, and apparatuses for determining parking availability are described. A sensor system is configured to monitor a plurality of parking spaces. The sensor system includes at least one sensor element that generates a sensor data output signal. A parking... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889099 | Parking-zone management system The invention relates to a system for the management of a parking zone with chargeable parking spaces for vehicles, in particular of a parking zone sited at or on a public road, comprising an automatic machine for the payment of a parking fee for a parking space, sa... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7868784 | System and apparatus for parking management A system configured for parking management in a parking facility, the system comprising a plurality of parking spaces, and a plurality of sensor units corresponding to the plurality of parking spaces, each of the plurality of sensor units being configured to detect ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7855661 | Apparatus for monitoring individual parking positions Apparatus for the individual monitoring of parking positions of a parking facility comprises a sensor (9) for vehicle detection and optical indicator means (5) for indicating the occupied/free status of a parking position (4). Sensor (9) ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7843362 | Method of controlling a driving maneuver A method is provided for controlling an at least partly automatically implementable driving maneuver by which a motor vehicle can be moved from an actual position into a desired position. In the environment of the motor vehicle, a virtual target object is generated ... | 11/30/2010 |
