Method and system for automatically locating vacant parking places
View Patent ↗An Automatic-vacant-parking-place locator (AVPPL) system and method in which a community member may get (manually or automatically) information on a vacant parking place in an area he/she is searching for a parking place. Further an AVPPL community member may provide information on vacant parking place in different areas, he/she is driving through, to other AVPPL community members and/or to an AVPPL mutual database.
1. A method for locating vacant parking places comprising:
receiving, by a processor: 1) one or more camera images of at least one side of a road from at least one wireless mobile device of at least one first user associated with a vehicle passing along the road, and, 2) location data from corresponding location analyzers of the at least one mobile device;
detecting and locating, by the processor, a vacant parking place along the road by processing the received images and the location data;
providing, based on the processed images and the location data, processed information comprising a size of the located vacant parking place so as to be a suitable parking place for multiple vehicles, the size including the length of the located vacant parking place;
obtaining, by a mutual database associated with a server, via an online connection, the processed information and the location data from the processor, and the location of the vacant parking place;
receiving, by the server, data from a vehicle searching for a vacant parking place;
analyzing, by a processor associated with the server, the received data to locate a vacant parking place corresponding to the size of the vehicle searching for the vacant parking place; and,
a processor associated with the server for causing sending the location of the vacant parking place, via an online connection, to a wireless mobile device associated with at least one second user seeking to park along the road.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data from the vehicle searching for a vacant parking place, received by the server, includes the size of vehicle searching for the vacant parking place.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data from the vehicle searching for a vacant parking place, received by the server, includes information about the vehicle searching for the vacant parking place to determine the size of the vehicle.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the determination of the size of the vehicle is performed automatically.
5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the determination of the size of the vehicle is performed in real time.